PopMatters' Scores

For 500 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 34% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 61% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Flag
Lowest review score: 0 Get This Party Started: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Mixed: 0 out of 187
  2. Negative: 0 out of 187
187 tv reviews
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The plots are thin, generally revolving around the idea that dumb is smart and smart is dumb.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Sadly, this program fails to be either compelling or diverting. Instead, it is a bloated and filler-stuffed waste of time.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    If it's trying to emulate Sex and the City, Love, Inc. misses the fact that that show presented us with complex characters from the get-go; here the single women are all pretty much one-shtick ponies.
  1. While the show has little going for it, it does have Seth Green.
  2. One could watch NCIS: Los Angeles. But one could also watch paint dry with far less pain and no less gain.
  3. The show's acting offers no respite. Scenes unfold very slowly, as characters talk quickly but pause at the end of each speech, often holding a self-satisfied smirk as if listening to an inaudible laugh track.
  4. Three Wishes is a veritable showcase for corporate largesse, and oh yes, self-promotion.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The network has risked its own reputation for cutting-edge, genre-busting shows by churning out a sitcom whose main joke is how derivative, unfunny, and unconvincing it is.
  5. Fittingly--and disappointingly--his fame-hungry characters don’t raise questions concerning politics or inhabit any realm of social interest; they are as vapid as their environment.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Despite the many hard bodies on display, South Beach is flabby.
  6. This is the central duality of the show: half fish-out-of-water tale about Todd, half underdogs-come-from-behind-to-triumph story about his staff. The problem is that neither plot has a sound foundation. For the first, it's hard to identify with Todd because he's not very likable.
  7. If the premise intrigues you, watch or rewatch Blade Runner instead, and offer Almost Human the all-too-human body swerve.
  8. With its stilted scenes, canned laughter, and handwringing about marriage, Whitney feels more like a step backward.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Bones is a very poor cross between the X-Files and CSI with characters stolen from NCIS, plot devices from Veronica Mars, and topicality from Law & Order.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    While Life is Wild is structured as a sort of fishes-out-of-water tale, it is more accurately described as a neocolonial masturbatory fantasy.
  9. There's no bottom to this show's sentimentality.
  10. It will most likely be remembered for years to come, alongside My Mother, the Car and Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire, as one of TV's truly bad ideas.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    A relentlessly unfunny mid-season replacement comedy from ABC that sucks all the fun out of dysfunction, the show could have been pitched to network execs as "Arrested Development meets Ordinary People." But it shows none of the former's wit or latter's intelligence.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Cougar is not only oogy and repetitive, but also as behind the curve as TV Land‘s usual rerun fare.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    We don't expect nighttime relationship dramas to be thrilling, but we have the right to expect an interesting character or two.
  11. UPN's new series has a shot -- in the sweepstakes for the worst reality show of all time.

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