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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. Stitchers: Season 1
    There are a few lighter moments here and there--including some played for laughs that seem like they'd play better if they were serious, including the first time Kirsten gets stitched--but mostly Stitchers is a ho-hum procedural with an unlikeably emotionless lead character with daddy issues and the promise of hanky-panky with a not-nerdy scientist
  2. Salem: Season 1
    The Salem pilot is rather plodding except when occasionally punctuated by these more gonzo scenes.
  3. The Killing: Season 4
    Fans of this hit-or-miss crime serial--and of Linden and Holder, in particular--may want to stream these final episodes just to see what kind of miserable state the show leaves poor Linden in, but The Killing long ago ceased to be required viewing for cultural currency.
  4. Texas Ranch House: Season 1
    Every reality show needs a mix of those you cheer for and those you jeer against, but "Texas Ranch House" has too many of the latter.
  5. Santa Clarita Diet: Season 1
    Every plot turn is predictable, no trope goes unexplored.
  6. Happy Town: Season 1
    Great TV always flows from the specificity of a show's characters; "Happy Town" traffics in banal generalities.
  7. Trust Us With Your Life: Season 1
    The series improves slightly in a sketch that's filmed backstage where the improv comics are filmed from above sliding around on the floor on a set designed to make them look like they're standing upright.
  8. Rush Hour (2016): Season 1
    A paint-by-numbers action-comedy.
  9. American Inventor: Season 1
    Tonight's premiere is often a huge time-waster, but when it's not boring viewers with the umpteenth meet-the-judges segment and sticks to introducing wacky inventors, it's kind of a hoot.
  10. Ja'mie: Private School Girl: Season 1
    It's basically a one-joke show--a guy in drag plays the leader of a clique of mean girls--that pales compared with the smart unpredictable chaos of comedy in "Getting On."
  11. Runaway: Season 1
    "Runaway" is no "Everwood," which featured complex characters and an exploration of social issues. "Runaway" is far more pedestrian -- "The Fugitive" with a family -- but it may not be any better of a fit with its lead-in "7th Heaven."
  12. Crossbones: Season 1
    Crossbones doesn’t offer compelling enough drama to complement its banal brutality.
  13. CSI: Cyber: Season 1
    Fans of “CSI” shows will likely warm up to this latest franchise extension and viewers of more character-driven, less preposterous drama will ignore it like they have past “CSI” shows.
  14. Partners (2014): Season 1
    Partners is your basic odd couple comedy with Mr. Grammer attacking his part with his trademark zeal and Mr. Lawrence wandering through the motions in somnambulant fashion. It’s a stark energy contrast but a secondary problem for Partners, which mostly stumbles on predictable plotting that flows from pedestrian writing.
  15. Ravenswood: Season 1
    It's all cheesy and silly with minimally adequate performances but, eh, what do you expect from a show in this genre.
  16. Chasing Life: Season 1
    If April’s work world is silly, her home life is uninvolving because it’s barely sketched out and seems like an afterthought.
  17. Two Sentence Horror Stories: Season 1
    Granted, the genre is horror and horrific stuff is expected but so far “Two Sentence Horror Stories” is pretty one note and a discordant note in this #MeToo era.
  18. Househusbands of Hollywood: Season 1
    Given the ubiquity of "Real Housewives" shows, it may be a sign of equality for a show about househusbands, but adding to the lame reality show glut does not feel like societal progress.
  19. Knightfall: Season 1
    History’s Knightfall is pretty much just a “Vikings” knockoff set in a different, but still bloody, historical period. ... The show’s limited character development is entirely predictable.
  20. United We Fall: Season 1
    This paint-by-numbers series has everything you expect in a lousy ’90s comedy but don’t want.
  21. Blood & Oil: Season 1
    Blood & Oil offers only musty melodrama befitting its already dated premise.
  22. seaQuest DSV: Season 1
    Good TV you can find almost every night. Titanics on the scale of ''seaQuest'' are few and far between. [11 Sept 1993]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Apr 21, 2020
  23. Notes from the Underbelly: Season 1
    It's another one of those dismissable, disposable, oh-so-slight comedies.
  24. Do No Harm: Season 1
    Do No Harm is a ridiculous show with plenty of lines of groaner dialogue.
  25. Hot Properties: Season 1
    A disappointingly sex-obsessed sitcom.
  26. How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life): Season 1
    It’s got a worthy premise that’s larded up with unfunny, over-the-top characterizations.
  27. Harsh Realm: Season 1
    The pilot exudes lots of flash (many things blow up, lots of gunfire) and little heart. The characters lack any spark of life and depth. [8 Oct 1999, p.40]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Jun 9, 2015
  28. The Magicians (2016): Season 1
    There's little that's magical about the cold, poorly paced Magicians pilot. It takes 16 minutes until Quentin arrives at Brakebills and feels longer. The pilot is rife with drab colors and while the story has potential, it made me want to go find the book rather than watch more of the TV series.
  29. Heartbeat (2016): Season 1
    The relationships are paint-by-numbers predictable as are the plots and Alex's I-know-better-than-everyone-else reactions. Heartbeat has a pulse but just barely.
  30. Freddie: Season 1
    It appears Freddie Prinze Jr. studied at the Matt LeBlanc School of Acting given his mumbling performance and nice-guy-cum-neanderthal portrayal of Freddie Moreno.
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