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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. Positive: 187 out of 187
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 187
  3. Negative: 0 out of 187
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Sex, Love & Secrets: Season 1
    We don't expect nighttime relationship dramas to be thrilling, but we have the right to expect an interesting character or two.
  2. Ghost Whisperer: Season 1
    There's no bottom to this show's sentimentality.
  3. Three Wishes: Season 1
    Three Wishes is a veritable showcase for corporate largesse, and oh yes, self-promotion.
  4. Everybody Hates Chris: Season 1
    The networks have been wondering how to compete with the no-holds barred nature of cable programming. This is it.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Criminal Minds: Season 1
    Unfortunately, Criminal Minds confuses critical thinking with supernatural abilities.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Love, Inc.: Season 1
    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.
  7. E-Ring: Season 1
    Hopper [is] so misfitted for this role that he seems perversely perfect.
  8. Invasion: Season 1
    Perhaps the most satisfying element in the series is its patience.
  9. My Name Is Earl: Season 1
    What's so wonderful about My Name Is Earl is that it's a comedy with its heart in the right place and everything else gleefully in the gutter.
  10. Surface: Season 1
    It helps that Bell is able to suggest complexity, emotional and moral, even when the dialogue fails her.
  11. How I Met Your Mother: Season 1
    The comedy that does occur in How I Met Your Mother isn't enough to compensate for its inconsistencies.
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  12. Kitchen Confidential: Season 1
    So no, the jokes aren't as haute as the cuisine. But presentation, on the plate or on television, goes a long way, and Confidential has the look of a winner.
  13. Just Legal: Season 1
    Sure, this has all been done before, but familiarity doesn't make Just Legal any less fun.
  14. Out of Practice: Season 1
    Had Keenan and Lloyd devoted more time to providing their characters with depth and less to flinging insults, viewers might have developed empathy for them and better understood why they feel such aggression toward one another.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Twins: Season 1
    The plots are thin, generally revolving around the idea that dumb is smart and smart is dumb.
  16. Threshold: Season 1
    Even with all its CGI trappings and somber Washington, D.C. setting, Threshold feels minor, an amalgam of The Abyss and maybe Dark Skies.
  17. Head Cases: Season 1
    The Practice should have been this much fun.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Bones: Season 1
    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.
  19. Prison Break: Season 1
    For every step forward (intricate plotting, Wentworth's engaging lead performance), the show also manages to stumble back (rote subplots, incessant lame dialogue as exposition).
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Extras: Season 1
    Millman is closer to Gervais than Brent ever was, and Extras teases out compelling tension from his desperate efforts to enter the world of the glitterati.
  21. The Tenth Inning: Season 1
    By turns treacly and rapturous, pedestrian and insightful, the documentary submits that, as Howard Bryant observes, "Most people have found a way to make their peace with the sport they love." Still, the history rankles. And here, too much of it is noted only briefly.
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