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For 390 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Americans: Season 3
Lowest review score: 0 Hemingway and Gellhorn
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 213 out of 213
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 213
  3. Negative: 0 out of 213
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  1. Looking: Season 2
    It's worth noting that Looking is one of the sweetest and most romantic shows on television, and one the best at depicting the complexity and curiosity that drives many sexual encounters.
  2. Justified: Season 3
    Justified doesn't come close to losing control of its narrative.
  3. Wolf Hall: Season 1
    The fantastic Wolf Hall is ultra-English is so many ways.... This may be a restrained, morally complex drama, but it is far from inert and stodgy in its execution.
  4. Fresh Off the Boat: Season 1
    Fresh Off the Boat is good--at times, very good. Without question, it's one of the best new shows of the broadcast network season: funny, well-acted and promising on a number of levels.
  5. Defiance: Season 2
    Syfy's Defiance doesn't just cement its place as a well-made and enjoyable show, it continues to serve as a welcome corrective to some recent trends in TV sci-fi.
  6. The Returned: Season 1
    [A] low-key but thoughtfully realized gem.
  7. Mad Men: Season 5
    All in all, this season premiere allows fans to marinate in the world of the characters for two hours.
  8. Men of a Certain Age: Season 2
    Even if you've never seen 'Terriers,' or indeed the first season of Men of a Certain Age, you're likely to find something to enjoy in the second season of MOACA, which expertly mines both comedy and drama from life's awkward transitional passages.
  9. Marvel's Agent Carter: Season 1
    The drama is every bit as brisk and engaging as its lead character, and I can only list one real objection to the show: its brevity.
  10. Sons of Anarchy: Season 3
    If you're really just in the mood for a tightly plotted character drama, the show delivers on that score. And if you like to see bikers busting heads, well, SOA has some of the best bone-crunching action in the business.
  11. You're the Worst: Season 1
    Gretchen and Jimmy's story, which acquires surprising emotional weight as the season progresses, is highly addictive on its own merits.
  12. The Good Wife: Season 2
    In its first couple of Season 2 episodes, The Good Wife stirs up a delectable stew of political, legal, romantic and interpersonal complications. It manages to be both escapist and intelligent, and that is an unbeatable combination.
  13. True Detective: Season 1
    [Novelist Joe Pizzolatto and director Cary Joji Fukunaga's] cohesive viewpoint helped me to forgive True Detective for some of its rougher spots, and the poetic visuals undoubtedly strengthened the most effective aspects of the drama.
  14. Top Of The Lake: Season 1
    Top of the Lake is [not] free of idiosyncratic digressions and the occasionally odd segue, but it does a critically important thing very well: It draws you into a specific world and it quickly makes that world's textures, relationships and stakes matter.
  15. Parenthood : Season 2
    This well-constructed drama is something to treasure on the TV schedule--it's a show that respects our everyday experiences and emotions and yet also manages to entertain.
  16. Masters of Sex: Season 1
    [Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan] are simply tremendous throughout, and they are the main reason to stick with the show, even when some of the supporting characters grate and parts of it feel like exposition-heavy excerpts from Thomas Maier's book of the same name.
  17. National Treasure (2017): Season 1
    It’s not quick or easy to watch. It’s also not easy to forget.
  18. The Event : Season 1
    The Event was a well-paced hour that played skillfully with time, and if the characters were a little thin, well, it's a pilot--it'll take time to give characters shading and dimension.
  19. Key & Peele: Season 1
    It's certainly worth keeping up with Key & Peele, given how strong and confident those outings are.
  20. Empire (2015): Season 2
    In its second season, Empire’s stilettos are sharper, its gloss is glossier and its enjoyably soapy turns are even larger than life, if that’s possible.
  21. Nikita: Season 1
    When it comes to espionage stories or action-adventure in general, originality isn't as crucial as a good execution of the basics, and in that regard, the first hour of Nikita delivers.
  22. Lost Girl: Season 1
    What a light, yet satisfying treat this show turned out to be.
  23. Vikings: Season 2
    As it did last season, the show thoughtfully explores ideas about how belief systems spread and what people do when confronted with gods--or a God--that makes little sense to them.
  24. Defiance: Season 1
    Defiance is not just a smart, well-crafted TV show with a good cast and an adventurous flavor, it's also indisputably science fiction, which is a relief.
  25. Friday Night Lights: Season 5
    Much of which transpires in the first few episodes seems familiar, if not a little predictable, and what saves the Taylors from being impossibly virtuous are the flaws the writers give them and the consistently great performances that Chandler and Britton give.
  26. The Knick: Season 1
    The results of Soderbergh's latest foray into series television are frequently terrific.
  27. Sherlock: Season 1
    Sherlock is an enjoyably clever mixture of character drama and adventure tale.
  28. The Americans: Season 1
    A solid spy vehicle for its strong cast.
  29. Cougar Town: Season 3
    If you've given Cougar Town a real shot and found that it's not for you, fair enough; but if you already love the goofy-sweet-smart flavor of this show, you'll find a lot to like about the new season.
  30. Togetherness: Season 1
    Togetherness can be hard to watch at times, given that it looks unflinchingly at the difficulties of marriage and friendship as middle age approaches, but the show is absolutely worth sticking with, if only for the virtuoso performance from Zissis, whose failed-actor character is one of the finest new creations to arrive on television in some time.
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