San Diego Union-Tribune's Scores

  • TV
For 214 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 EZ Streets: Season 1
Lowest review score: 0 21 Jump Street: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Mixed: 0 out of 128
  2. Negative: 0 out of 128
128 tv reviews
  1. Conspiracy and backbiting are the only constant themes, and the overwhelming sense of claustrophobia and the unremitting nastiness of many of contestants make the show nearly unwatchable. [17 Jul 2001]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
    • 88 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Tedious and banal, '24' lacks the engrossing panache TV's 'Mission Impossible' had years ago. Even though a well-rested-looking Sutherland is cool, steady and right for his role, he can't carry the show alone. [4 Nov 2001]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
    • 79 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A lot of the humor in Scrubs is sick. Many jokes are made at the expense of old people on the brink of death, or sitting comatose in a wheelchair. [2 Oct 2001, p.E3]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
  2. "TekWar" is a blur of techno images, whirring noises and idiotic sci-fi speak. [18 Jan 1994]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A strong candidate for worst new series of the season. [2 Nov 1988]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Lame, trite. [21 Sept 1998, p.E-1]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
  3. Where the film began on a distinctly glum note, then built toward a spirit of renewal, the pilot episode of the sitcom starts out noisy and stays that way. In other words, a bewitching and intriguing movie has been trashed once again in the making of a har-de-har sitcom. [30 Mar 1990, p.E-17]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
  4. Cassidy is a decently capable dancer, but the routines performed by the troupe at the resort seem utterly tame, so mild that Stevenson's fuddy-duddy objections seem only puzzling. They are not nearly as puzzling, however, as CBS's decision to pencil Dirty Dancing onto the network dance card. [29 Oct 1998, p.D-15]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
    • 66 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    What "Enterprise" doesn't have are charismatic, fun characters. [26 Sep 2001]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
  5. A mean, miserable, nasty-minded excuse for a comedy. [29 Jan 1999]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
  6. A bloody bore. ... Even by the relaxed standards of horror movies, "Freddy" is a sloppy, simplistic, amateurish, abysmally acted, incompetently written production that would be more at home on a cable-access channel than in national syndication. [8 Oct 1988]
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  7. One of the true, noteworthy duds of the 1990 fall schedule...A lamebrained enterprise, a witless, obvious, often self-contradictory attempt at comedy. [10 Sept 1990, p.C-1]
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  8. Stunningly stupid. [27 Sep 1992]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune
  9. Pointless gimmicks, dire stupidity, rotten acting and gratuitous violence abound, and, in the opening episode, so does implicit racism. The treatment of blacks in 21 Jump Street marks a new and unwelcome chapter in TV's history of on-screen racism; they are unquestionably portrayed as savage, violent figures threatening vulnerable whites. [11 Apr 1987, p.D-13]
    • San Diego Union-Tribune

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