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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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  1. Everwood: Season 1
    Doc Brown has his own clashes, particularly with Dr. Abbott (Tom Amandes), the town's sole general practitioner before his arrival. Abbott is a caricature, over-the-top in his arrogance. He does everything short of twirling a mustache to shout, "I'm the bad guy!" This is where "Everwood" hits a bump....With such realism in the relationship between Ephram and his father, it's a shame series creator and writer Greg Berlanti ("Dawson's Creek") went down such a conventional, only-on-TV path in creating this other adversarial relationship. [16 Sept 2002, p.B-1]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 20, 2013
  2. The Shield: Season 1
    Gritty, tough, no-holds barred television that feels more real than any other police drama on the air. It makes "NYPD Blue" look like a children's show. [10 Mar 2002, p.TV-5]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 19, 2013
  3. Boomtown: Season 1
    HBO shows aside, visceral Boomtown is the new exemplar of quality TV dramas on Sunday night... Boomtown engrosses. It's the season's strongest new drama, not just because it takes a chance on a novel format, but because it manages to tell stand-alone stories even as it develops the characters in its large ensemble. [27 Sept 2002, p.40]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 18, 2013
  4. Bates Motel: Season 1
    Bates Motel takes a few episodes to get going as the writers build the world of White Pine Bay, and the story appears poised to really kick into a higher gear with a revelation at the end of the third episode. Up to this point Bates Motel is an OK character drama, but in building the broader world it inhabits the show begins to come into sharper focus.
  5. Spin City: Season 1
    Everything about City does not spin with equal balance. The pilot's plot (the mayor stumbles into a gay rights controversy) is so hackneyed and out-of-touch, it makes you wonder if the writers have been to New York in the last decade. But the spin doctors at Spin City insist the plot's creakiness is an aberration - and so many other things in the show go well, I'm inclined to believe them. [17 Sept 1996, p.D-4]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 17, 2013
  6. Top Of The Lake: Season 1
    Taken altogether--the determined detective, the drug lord, the kooky encampment, the mystery of Tui's disappearance--Top of the Lake makes for a compelling mix of moody, character-driven drama.
  7. Clone High, USA: Season 1
    An animated series with an odd mix of historical figures and parodies of teen-appeal TV, advertising and music. It's a bizarre combination, to be sure, but it works. [12 Jan 2003, p.D-3]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 15, 2013
  8. Alias: Season 1
    Though there are surprises and crosses and double-crosses in the show's waning minutes, Alias fails to make me care much about its characters, their future or understanding who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. "La Femme Nikita" kept these mysteries beguiling in its early seasons; Alias can't manage to do that in its first episode. [30 Sept 2001, p.TV-5]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 15, 2013
  9. House: Season 1
    An engrossing new series with a fascinatingly unsympathetic character at its core. [14 Nov 2004, p.TV--5]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 11, 2013
  10. Preachers' Daughters: Season 1
    Preachers' Daughters is pretty much the show you expect/fear it will be but with just one girl who's really gone down a bad path.
  11. Hindenburg: The Last Flight: Season 1
    No question, Hindenburg is a disaster--from start to finish.
  12. LA Shrinks: Season 1
    L.A. Shrinks is another Bravo guilty pleasure show. When the cast members aren't saying outrageous things, it can get kind of dull, but most of the time the dialogue is crazy enough to keep viewers entertained.
  13. NCIS: Season 1
    Harmon brings a light touch to this schizophrenic show. He's a sensitive cowboy who does his job and then goes home to work on a boat he's building. [23 Sept 2003, p.B1]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Mar 3, 2013
  14. The Bible : Season 1
    It often plays more like an action film than a serious interpretation of a holy book.
  15. Frasier: Season 1
    For this one half-hour, Frasier is high-class entertainment. Grammer does scowling exasperation as well as any actor in America (it's hard to imagine an actor who could get more laughs trading looks with a dog), the fraternal relationship is wonderful, and the work-place material works perfectly (thanks to another fine supporting performance from Peri Gilpin). [16 Sept 1993, p.C7]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 27, 2013
  16. Friends: Season 1
    In short, they do what friends do, only they do more of it more often. Too often, actually. That constant comic bantering grows a little tired, just as it would if it ever actually happened in real life. [22 Sept 1994, p.C1]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 27, 2013
  17. Red Widow: Season 1
    Bland and toothless, this drama, about a woman who ends up working in organized crime, attempts to meld suburban mommy drama with a mob story but fails to come up with anything that’s remotely interesting to watch.
  18. Cold Case: Season 1
    If you're not tapped out on this kind of show already, Cold Case is a sophisticated procedural drama with an engrossing mystery at its core. [27 Sept 2003, p.C-9]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 26, 2013
  19. Greetings from Tucson: Season 1
    The composition of the cast and presence of a grandma (Lupe Ontiveros) makes the show structurally and thematically similar to ABC's "George Lopez Show," but Tucson is more entertaining and better written. [20 Sept 2002, p.40]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 24, 2013
  20. What I Like About You: Season 1
    Harmless fluff that won't impress its intended pre-teen audience, but they'll watch anyway. [20 Sept 2002, p.40]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 24, 2013
  21. John Doe: Season 1
    Viewers who don't mind being dragged along for a ride, who are gluttons for punishment ("X-Files" faithful, perhaps), may want to join in John Doe's search. For the rest of us, Doe will remain the personification of an unsolved mystery. [20 Sept 2002, p.40]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 24, 2013
  22. Firefly: Season 1
    If Firefly weren't from Joss Whedon, the talented, respected creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," this review would probably be a lot more dismissive. Because of his track record -- six seasons of "Buffy," five of them good; the successful and ultimately distinctive spinoff series "Angel" -- Firefly gets the benefit of the doubt despite an inauspicious debut. It's not good, it's not bad, it's just so-so. [20 Sept 2002, p.40]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 23, 2013
  23. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 1
    As a loyal "Homicide" viewer, for me Munch is the best part of SVU, especially in tonight's scene where he explains his departure from Baltimore. [20 Sept 1999, p.B-1]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 22, 2013
  24. Grey's Anatomy: Season 1
    A mixed bag. Diagnosis: Some good dialogue, but it also suffers from a mild case of predictability.
  25. Cult: Season 1
    So although the details aren't quite right, the concept of Cult remains intriguing. Perhaps, like Mr. O'Bannon's "Farscape," Cult will improve over time.
  26. Freaks and Geeks: Season 1
    The best new show of the season...It's less sentimental than "The Wonder Years" and not as concerned with its period setting. Unlike "My So-Called Life," which was real in a gloomy-doesn't-life-stink way, Freaks and Geeks finds abundant humor in the absurdity of the situations the characters face. [22 Sept 1999, p.C-1]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 17, 2013
  27. The X-Files: Season 1
    It's all played with suitably creepy seriousness, but without the self- conscious weirdness that made the later-day "Twin Peaks" so tedious. Duchovny and Anderson anchor the story through steady performances; we're as interested in what happens to them as in what happened to the teens...It's all pretty silly stuff, but it's silliness done well. If you're willing to give yourself over to it, it should hold your attention -- which is more than one can say for most of the season's new offerings. [10 Sept 1993, p.Ent 20]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 17, 2013
  28. Veronica Mars: Season 1
    The show wants to be hip and cool, and it often is, but it makes no pretensions that it doesn't have a heart beating underneath, much like its cool but caring lead character. [22 Sept 2004, p.D-6]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 16, 2013
  29. Lost: Season 1
    Lost itself has a certain intriguing quality that makes it worth coming back for more. [19 Sept 2005, p.TV-5]
    • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
      • Posted Feb 16, 2013
  30. Killing Lincoln
    The Nat Geo movie is a thoroughly entertaining, exciting docudrama.
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