Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's Scores

  • TV
For 436 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 1
Lowest review score: 30 Salem's Lot (2004)
Score distribution:
  1. Mixed: 0 out of 323
  2. Negative: 0 out of 323
323 tv reviews
  1. “The Ark” is poorly written (grating exposition galore!) with mediocre special effects and cardboard characters. Syfy’s latest disappoints on every level.
  2. “Pulse” may appeal to “Grey’s” fans who prefer their medical shows on the soapy side, but anyone who’s given up on “Grey’s” and embraced “The Pitt” would be wise to let “Pulse” flatline on its own.
  3. The sleuthing quartet gives the show some “Scooby-Doo” vibes. “Winchesters” feels like it exists in the same world as “Supernatural.”
  4. Dull crime procedural.
  5. In the premiere episode, a girl is kidnapped by terrorists. Nikki rescues the girl but only after risking her life by shooting the driver of a car the girl is in. It’s this sort of ridiculous storytelling, coupled with the uncredible recurring Keith storyline, that make “Alert” a series to avoid.
  6. Joe Morton devours the scenery with gusto. Storytelling competency improves a little in episode two but not enough to recommend.
  7. Meh traditional multicam sitcom.
  8. “Hunting Party” is a predictable procedural. .... Eminently skippable.
  9. It’s essentially the same type of courtroom show, albeit with more episodes focused on a single case than the two cases per episode as was traditional on “Judge Judy.”
  10. Dialogue hammers home arguments that sound more like something from a middle school textbook than how humans might speak.
  11. For viewers who appreciate so-bad-its-entertaining movies, “Dawn” may hold some promise. But unlike, say, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which knew it was camp, it’s completely unclear if “Dawn” is trying to be campy.
  12. All the gags are telegraphed and obvious. A second episode shows some improvement, but not enough.
  13. Stilted performances and bad dialogue permeate this awful action-adventure pilot.
  14. A lot of “The Terminal List” is pretty standard-issue, macho-man military conspiracy theory fare, just darker, bleaker, duller and more humorless than usual.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    According to folklore, vampires can't enter your domain unless you invite them in. By the middle of the new four-hour version of Stephen King's "Salem's Lot," , I was ready to invite them in -- in hopes they could end my suffering.

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