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For 1,785 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Mrs. America: Season 1
Lowest review score: 0 Killer Instinct: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 868 out of 868
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 868
  3. Negative: 0 out of 868
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Da Ali G Show (US): Season 1
    The galling part is how Cohen betrays satire by making it hollow and toothless. "Da Ali G Show" is a sheep in wolf's clothing. [21 Feb 2003]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Jan 13, 2026
  2. Star Wars Resistance: Season 1
    It’s an entertaining enough hour for kids — my 8-year-old was spellbound — but whether it attracts adult viewers as “Rebels” and “Clone Wars” did probably depends on how the show’s serialized story develops.
  3. The Gilded Age: Season 2
    If this is the end for “The Gilded Age,” bravo to the series for delivering two near-perfect seasons. But I do hope we’ll get to spend more time with these fantastic characters.
  4. True Lies (2023): Season 1
    This is “True Lies” in title only. The film’s concept has been reduced to a paint-by-number, light CBS procedural. If that’s the type of programming you enjoy, have at it. Just don’t expect anything more.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    M*A*S*H: Season 1
    How really pleasant it is to report that M*A*S*H turned up on Sunday night with the spirit of the original, if not all the blood and free-swinging language, intact. [18 Sep 1972, p.31]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 13, 2023
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cheers: Season 1
    A splendid cast, headed by Shelley Long, a college-educated cocktail waitress, and bar owner Ted Danson, make Cheers something to cheer about. [19 Oct 1982, p.34]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Oct 20, 2022
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Taxi: Season 1
    It's a remarkably talented group. [14 Sep 1978, p.26]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Oct 18, 2022
  8. Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 2
    It's a slam-bang hour that also serves up some "Battlestar" touchstones -- religion, politics -- while advancing the story a half-step and introducing another Cylon threat to the Galactica crew.
  9. Dawson's Creek: Season 1
    It would be a lot easier to like the kids from Dawson's Creek if they'd just put a sock in it now and then. [20 Jan 1998, p.C8]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted May 9, 2022
  10. Crossing Jordan: Season 1
    Although I'm wise enough not to cross Jordan, I don't really want to watch more of this formula-driven show. [24 Sep 2001]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 29, 2022
  11. American Dreams: Season 1
    The show looks slick, the attention to detail is painstaking and the music inspires toe tapping.
  12. Young Americans: Season 1
    It doesn't make for an original TV show, of course, but Young Americans still manages to be guilty summer fun. Mindless and cliche, to be sure, but escapist entertainment nonetheless.
  13. Wolf Lake (2001): Season 1
    The new Wolf Lake... is obvious and lumbers to a start rather than moving in Twin Peaks-like mysterious ways. [12 Sep 2001]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 16, 2022
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cybill: Season 1
    Shepherd plays good-naturedly off her narcissistic image and the writers get off a few good lines. But this is just the kind of show that has to score with the quick zinger because it has nothing more solid to stand on. [01 Jan 1995]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 2, 2022
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Murder, She Wrote: Season 1
    [Lansbury] made this show, which depended on smarts, instinct and the force of J.B.'s personality, not CSI evidence.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Family Ties: Season 1
    Meredith Baxter Birney and Michael Gross do a splendid job as modern-day parents with an attractive brood of convincingly "now" youngsters. [19 Oct 1982, p.34]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Jan 27, 2022
  17. The Trouble with Larry: Season 1
    Well, you won't find a much funnier lead than Pinchot, but even a comic genius needs something and someone with which to work. With the supporting cast offering no support at all, Pinchot pushes egregiously, until even this funny man isn't funny anymore. [25 Aug 1993, p.
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Jan 26, 2022
    • 43 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Love Boat: Season 1
    The guest performances were delightful and contributed greatly to the success--in my opinion--of the opener. [28 Sep 1977, p.49]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Jan 25, 2022
  19. Rose Red: Season 1
    "Rose Red delivers a better story than his last opus (1999's "Storm of the Century") with better developed characters, but at the end I still felt like I'd wasted a lot of time. What's the point in setting up an intriguing, intricate backstory without offering some answers?
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Salem's Lot
    If you're going to have a great actor play the vampire's human familiar, you could do worse than James Mason. [10 Sept 1917, p.F-7]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Apr 17, 2021
  21. Alex Rider: Season 1
    The first two episodes deliver a lot of setup as Alex’s world is ripped apart before he’s set on his path to becoming a spy. The plot mechanics are fairly predictable and it takes the show too long to get where it’s clearly going.
  22. Love in the Time of Corona: Season 1
    An easy, breezy binge, “Corona” puts a welcome, mostly upbeat spin on trying times.
  23. Dead Pixels: Season 1
    Though I find it boring as can be, my kids enjoy watching YouTube videos of other people playing video games. I suppose “Dead Pixels” might be for those entertainment consumers – and those alone.
  24. Love Fraud: Season 1
    Showtime’s “Love Fraud” is the year’s most engrossing true crime docu-series. ... There’s barely any flab in these four hours as the story takes progressively weirder, more surprising turns.
  25. Lovecraft Country: Season 1
    While there is an ongoing serialized story, the individual episode stories involving the lead characters represent “Lovecraft Country” at its best: a haunted house in episode three, a “National Treasure”-style quest in episode four, a metamorphosis in episode five. The episodes often upend expectations.
  26. Ted Lasso: Season 1
    Lasso’s good-humored, unflinchingly honest and polite character appeals as a type we don’t often see in a single-camera comedy in the post-anti-hero TV series era.
  27. Star Trek: Lower Decks: Season 1
    “Lower Decks” has its occasional chuckle-worthy moments, but too often the show opts for wild chaos as a substitute for actual comedy.
  28. Muppets Now: Season 1
    It rarely feels improvised except maybe in Q&A interviews with celebs and in “Pepe’s Unbelievable Game Show.” After four episodes, it’s safe to say “Muppets Now” is only occasionally funny, and the recurring segments grow repetitive.
  29. Fridge Wars: Season 1
    As with plenty of reality competitions, one wonders if “Fridge Wars” might be stronger with one family at a half-hour rather than the one-hour running time, but for the most part “Fridge Wars” doesn’t feel padded.
  30. Killer Camp: Season 1
    This silly series deserves kudos for living up to its title. Each eviction is carried out in campy, horror style. ... If future episodes can effectively-yet-cheesily ape horror movie conventions with a different method of end-of-show murder each week, “Killer Camp” will prove itself an entertaining summer diversion.
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