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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 7.2 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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  1. The Last Man on Earth: Season 1
    The first half-hour is all setup, and while entertaining in its own way, with just one character, it's insular and unlike anything else on TV, which is always a tough sell for viewers conditioned to expect more of the same. The second episode gives Phil a much-needed sparring partner, which is funnier than the gags during his solitary existence.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Office: Season 6
    It's a typically funny Office episode that makes good use of most of the cast.
  3. The Inbetweeners (UK): Season 1
    It's occasionally randy and sophomoric, but there are also some smarts and heart mixed in.
  4. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp: Season 1
    Fans of the original are likely to enjoy this follow-up, which improves in succeeding episodes after the somewhat lackluster first entry and those who scratched their heads at the movie are likely to have the same reaction to this prequel series.
  5. Primeval: Season 1
    It's a rollicking adventure with decent special effects and better stories and character development than, say, Sci Fi Channel's "Eureka."
  6. Happy Endings: Season 1
    Happy Endings excels at fearless humor that's sometimes shocking, not because it's gratuitous, but because it's an unexpected surprise--and a welcome one at that.
  7. People of Earth: Season 1
    A funny, bizarre high concept comedy about a support group for alien abductees.
  8. Son of the Beach: Season 1
    Stack, Stern and the other executive producers created "on of the Beach with "over-the-top" as the show's mantra. It may not hold up on a weekly basis, but this first trip to the "Beach" is outrageous fun.
  9. Pushing Daisies: Season 1
    Pushing Daisies captivates with an emotionally resonant story and dazzles with its bright visual imagery. Fans of delightfully daft fairy tales, this one's for you.
  10. Behind the Candelabra
    Terrific performances make it a movie worth seeing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jane Eyre
    The casting is close to perfect.... This production of "Jane Eyre" holds its own against any other.
  12. Louie: Season 1
    Often profane and occasionally offensive, Louie won't be to every viewer's taste, but it's a more interesting show than many with a definitive point of view.
  13. Flight of the Conchords: Season 2
    It's so funny and so well-done on so many levels, the Conchords definitely deserve to be discovered by a wide TV audience.
  14. How Murray Saved Christmas
    It's a clever, funny hour that's written in rhyme with imaginative songs threaded throughout.
  15. Sherlock: Season 3
    t's an entertaining episode that doesn't fall into the pacing trap so often seen in "Sherlock" where there's not enough story to hold the show up through its 90-minute running time. (Episode two fares worse in this regard, although it's still an entertaining outing.)
  16. The Middle: Season 1
    The Middle is funny enough to merit a weekly visit.
  17. Stranger Things: Season 2
    Entertaining and warm in appropriate 1980s fashion, “Stranger Things 2,” now streaming, fills its nine episodes better than season one filled its eight episodes.
  18. Undeclared: Season 1
    How sadly true and truly funny. [25 Sept 2001, p.C-1]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Jun 20, 2013
  19. Greek: Season 1
    Writer/creator Patrick Sean Smith gives Greek a greater sense of light-hearted fun that seems more authentic to the real-world experience of college as "the best years."
  20. Ally McBeal: Season 1
    A whimsical, cleverly conceived dramedy ... Whether 'Ally's' fantasy element can stay whimsical, without falling over into tiresome or distracting (as it did on 'Dream On'), remains to be seen. [8 Sep 1997]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Jul 24, 2013
  21. Maximum Bob: Season 1
    Maximum Bob maximizes its dark humor in satisfyingly loopy ways. [4 Aug 1998, p.E-1]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Aug 6, 2014
  22. Law & Order: UK: Season 1
    Aside from a few head-scratcher terms (GBH = "grievous bodily harm"), lawyers and judges wearing white wigs while in court (the judge in the premiere looks like she's got a poodle on her head) and occasionally impenetrable accents, Law & Order: UK should be remarkably familiar to fans of the original series.
  23. Mom: Season 2
    Mom remains funny, thanks in large part to the great work of Allison Janney as Christy's potty-mouthed mom, Bonnie. And the show continues to make excellent use of actress Mimi Kennedy (now a series regular and pictured above at left) as a foil for Bonnie and friend to Christy.
  24. The Big Bang Theory: Season 1
    With so few traditional sitcoms on the air this year, the new ones had better be good. Happily for viewers, Fox's "Back to You" and CBS's Big Bang Theory qualify as generally welcome newcomers.
  25. Torchwood (UK): Season 2
    Torchwood gets off to a lighter, more rousing start in its second season premiere.
  26. 30 Rock: Season 3
    30 Rock is more manic than "Seinfeld," but its smart observations on political correctness, corporate culture and life in Manhattan make it an ideal heir. This Rock continues to roll.
  27. Dexter: Season 2
    it's the danger of Dexter being found out that permeates these episodes, upping the pressure and keeping the series as tense and twisted as it was in season one.
  28. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Season 1
    It’s a smart, funny series, and it’s a relief to know Netflix saved it from what was sure to be terminal neglect had it aired on NBC.
  29. Designated Survivor: Season 1
    Designated Survivor pilot has its share of gaps in logic but it’s engrossing, if not entirely believable, and features the best opening scene of fall’s broadcast drama pilots.
  30. Broadchurch: Season 2
    While there are still some improbable elements--would the nephew of the killer, Olly Stevens (Jonathan Bailey), really still be allowed to cover a relative's trial?--Broadchurch remains a tense, engrossing drama.
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