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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. Oprah's Big Give: Season 1
    It may do some good, but it's still a piece of TV entertainment that, first and foremost, must succeed as a revenue generator for ABC. That realistic, not cynical, caveat aside, Big Give is certainly more positive than "Big Brother" or numerous other reality shows.
  2. quarterlife: Season 1
    As frustrating as it is fascinating, watching the quarterlife characters is like gazing at animals in a zoo.
  3. Jericho: Season 2
    Was this resurrection worth the effort? In a word, yes.
  4. Lipstick Jungle: Season 1
    Thoroughly average and unfailingly adequate, NBC's Lipstick Jungle is easier to like than ABC's cold, cynical "Cashmere Mafia," but that's like putting lipstick on a pig, albeit a pig dressed in couture.
  5. Welcome to the Captain: Season 1
    Another single-camera comedy that fails to provide any laughs.
  6. Eli Stone: Season 1
    Eli Stone offers a well-stirred mix of character comedy, relationship drama, legal cases and musical numbers.
  7. Lost: Season 4
    The Lost writers begin the season with a firm grasp on their story and a keen understanding that viewers won't object to the introduction of new characters as long as old favorites are well served.
  8. In Treatment: Season 1
    In Treatment is fascinating TV, but it's not a pleasant experience. Watching these therapy sessions is akin to eating your TV broccoli.
  9. Breaking Bad: Season 1
    In such rare instances [in the second episode], Breaking Bad achieves a perfect moment of nerdy believability, but too often the series fails to provide details that would help explain its characters' illogical choices.
  10. Torchwood (UK): Season 2
    Torchwood gets off to a lighter, more rousing start in its second season premiere.
  11. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1
    Some die-hards may be frustrated by inconsistencies in the timeline with "Terminator 3," but unless you get overly wrapped up in the details of time travel, tonight's pilot is an intense adventure.
  12. Cashmere Mafia: Season 1
    Ignoring all that, shallow Mafia entertains in key moments.
  13. Tin Man: Season 1
    Writers Steven Long Mitchell and Craig W. Van Sickle are certainly inventive, if inventive can mean willing-to-crib-from-sci-fi-culture-past, but the Tin Man story doesn't hang together well.
  14. Shrek The Halls
    For families seeking a new Christmas special, particularly if they're already fans of "Shrek" on the big screen, Shrek the Halls is a treat.
  15. Nip/Tuck: Season 5
    Having watched the first two episodes, I'm pleasantly surprised to say: It worked.
  16. Samantha Who?: Season 1
    But like so many other shows in recent years, this concept would work better as a one-shot movie than as a weekly series.
  17. Women's Murder Club: Season 1
    There's nothing gritty or particularly realistic about ABC's Women's Murder Club, but that's OK. The show is an entertaining, estrogen-powered hour regardless.
  18. Life is Wild: Season 1
    Life Is Wild is a decent but not exceptional family drama set in South Africa.
  19. 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.
  20. Cavemen: Season 1
    Cavemen is itself an embarrassment because it's not funny. At all.
  21. Carpoolers: Season 1
    There's little that's surprising let alone interesting about Carpoolers despite the best efforts of an enthusiastic cast, most notably O'Connell.
  22. Aliens in America: Season 1
    It's a timely look at cultural differences and a timeless depiction of young friendship. It's that rare TV comedy with both humor and heart.
  23. 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.
  24. Moonlight: Season 1
    Moonlight is just a weak, generic private-eye drama with a vampire story overlay.
  25. Big Shots: Season 1
    A light-hearted, comedic drama about four wealthy guys with women troubles and work problems.
  26. Bionic Woman: Season 1
    This Bionic Woman pilot is a downbeat drag, but buried somewhere beneath all the moping is an intriguing show that might yet emerge.
  27. Dirty Sexy Money: Season 1
    The characters are engaging in their varying degrees of awfulness, and there appears to be plenty of story fodder for years to come.
  28. Life (2007): Season 1
    It gets bogged down by so many procedural elements that all the character moments get squished and forced out around the edges, resulting in an uninteresting blob of an overly familiar TV show.
  29. Private Practice: Season 1
    Kate Walsh seemed like a guest star in what should be her show.
  30. Reaper: Season 1
    Wise is one lucky devil. And so are viewers who appreciate lighthearted, supernatural dramas.
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