Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Scores

  • TV
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. Mixed: 0 out of 868
  2. Negative: 0 out of 868
868 tv reviews
  1. Everything on the show feels outlined, if not scripted.
  2. The show is neither funny enough to be a comedy nor dramatic enough to be an engaging drama.
  3. Viewers who like their comedy broad, loud and silly might take a liking to this "Odd Couple"-like sitcom.
  4. What is it about this television season that made TV executives say, "I think what Americans want to watch in a sitcom is people taunting, disrespecting and insulting one another"?...Insult humor courses through the veins of Fox's Luis, an alleged comedy that provides few laughs.
  5. Rather than three shows, one show would be best: Make The Rock the host, use the settings of "72 Hours" and the casting of Race to the Scene and viewers would be much better off than watching any of these individual new programs.
  6. Maybe in an airy Broadway theater the issues the show attempts to explore would play better, but on TV The Slap suffocates, packed with too many awful characters I don't want to spend another moment watching.
  7. The first hour is a deadly dull slog. Viewers get plopped into the action without much effort to provide context and then there are flashbacks to confuse matters further.
  8. A mere wisp of a show, so lighter than air that it threatens to float away at any moment.
  9. The show has a strong, likable cast--Mr. Chestnut, in particular, seems to be having fun--but when cliches pile up faster than clues, it’s time to change the channel.
  10. Fox's preposterous organized crime/medical show combo platter The Mob Doctor manages to be silly and sappy.
  11. Bag of Bones rarely scares but frequently induces unintentional giggles.
  12. An awful show about awful people.
  13. One of the worst murder-mysteries to come along in a while, ABC’s Secrets & Lies is completely undone by its casting and writing.
  14. The laugh track is far too enthusiastic for the lame attempts at comedy on display here.
  15. The CW's Beauty is laughably bad in myriad ways. There's no sense of star-crossed lovers, just a plasticized romance between a Cover Girl and a glum, anger-prone male model.
  16. Miscast and only intermittently funny, Jezebel James misfires on all cylinders.
  17. There's a lot that's terrible about Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp.... But this show adds additional layers of hypocrisy and silliness.
  18. Utterly unpleasant and unfunny, Fox's dispiriting Sons of Tucson may be the worst comedy series of a generally winning 2009-10 TV season.
  19. Undateable probably isn’t a show many sitcom fans will want to make a standing date to watch.
  20. Another single-camera comedy that fails to provide any laughs.
  21. Seriously lacking in laughs.
  22. "The Game" lacks the relationships that made "Girlfriends" a qualified UPN hit and the comedy to make it much of anything for The CW.
  23. It had a weak pilot to begin with, but the second episode is even more of a tedious bore.
  24. Obvious, dumb and mostly unfunny, One Big Happy is an embarrassment for all involved.
  25. No question, Hindenburg is a disaster--from start to finish.
  26. A watered-down “Person of Interest” crossed with Fox’s failed “APB,” this time-waster stars Jeremy Piven as a Silicon Valley mogul touched by tragedy when his daughter is murdered, leading him to quit his company and create a crowd-sourced, crime-solving app. ... And to think CBS’s Sunday night was once home to a prestige drama like “The Good Wife” and now it’s a parking spot for this disappointment.
  27. Filled with terrible dialogue.
  28. The pilot episode jumps all over the place without establishing characters or their relationships.... [A] failure to connect the dots is a common problem for Hemlock Grove.
  29. An often lighthearted medical show set in a Los Angeles fertility clinic, NBC's "Inconceivable" lacks the grit of "ER," the heart of "Scrubs" and the soapy shenanigans of "Grey's Anatomy," leaving an empty husk of a series.
  30. Problem is, the characters are neither likeable enough to cheer for nor despicable enough to loathe. They're just sort of unformed lumps of gray clay with a few stereotypical streaks of color.

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