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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. Training Day (2017): Season 1
    Smoothing off some of the rogue cop’s edges, ironically, makes Paxton’s acting job more difficult. He has keep reminding us that he’s contemptuous of many law enforcement standards while at the same time throwing out hints he still harbors some deep and real humanity.Roarke sometimes lurches a little from this balancing act, at least in the early going, and that can throw off other characters as well.
  2. 24: Legacy: Season 1
    Hawkins does a solid job filling Jack’s familiar shoes.
  3. The Collection: Season 1
    While this is hardly the first complicated sibling relationship in a TV series, this one has the overlay of unspoken things both men apparently felt extraordinary circumstances had forced them to do.
  4. Sun Records: Season 1
    It isn’t afraid to spend time in critical and somewhat obscure areas. It also enlivens the drama with sharply drawn non-musical characters.
  5. Big Little Lies: Season 1
    While a tale of restless discontent in a rich California coastal town offers an intriguing ride, it’s also a deliberate one. Think of it as a Sunday drive, at a leisurely pace that enables the passengers to absorb every detail of the scenery.
  6. The Good Fight: Season 1
    The Good Fight, a spinoff from CBS’s acclaimed The Good Wife, turns out to be a really good show.
  7. 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.
  8. The Muppets (2015): Season 1
    There are some solid jokes and gags scattered throughout the first two episodes. But as I watched them, it was difficult not to feel a sense of deflation that strayed into disappointment. It became more and more clear over the course of those episodes that The Muppets had been jammed into a format that doesn’t quite suit them.
  9. Heroes: Reborn: Season 1
    Unless the show improves from this more or less adequate premiere and shows consistent flair and originality, I can’t in good conscience recommend Heroes Reborn over the sterling comic books, new and old, the property continues to imitate.
  10. Blood & Oil: Season 1
    Aside from Don Johnson’s canny oil baron, and as we found with the “Dallas” revival, one savvy old dude can’t always carry an entire show on his back, especially when the rest of it is so mechanical.
  11. Supergirl (2015): Season 1
    There are some bumps in the road as the show lays out its premise, but Supergirl has a number of things going for it: Melissa Benoist is convincing and charming in the lead role; the supporting cast, which features the likes of Calista Flockhart, Chyler Leigh, Mehcad Brooks and David Harewood, is very good; and the leaders of the writing team behind it.
  12. Limitless (2015): Season 1
    One of the most narrow and timid fall seasons in memory. This premise is particularly tired.
  13. Code Black (2015): Season 1
    As rendered here, none of its medical crises or characters are terribly compelling.
  14. Minority Report (2015): Season 1
    The end result is ... merely OK.
  15. The Player: Season 1
    I might have tried harder to get past the bad taste that situation left in my mouth, had the rest of the show not been fairly paint-by-numbers and generic, but as escapist hours go, there's not a lot of meat on the bone here.
  16. Quantico: Season 1
    This show knows what it wants to do and it churns through its story with efficiency and the gloss that comes from executing the ABC house style with energy and a bit of flair.
  17. Rosewood: Season 1
    Rosewood brings nothing distinctive or memorable to the formula, aside from the welcome diversity of its cast.
  18. Blindspot: Season 1
    Alexander and Stapleton, both appealing enough in their own right, to execute some basic action-adventure moves, though their characters have no discernible chemistry as yet. The Blindspot pilot is more or less efficient enough, even though few aspects of the premise make any real sense.
  19. The Bastard Executioner: Season 1
    Aside from the moments in which Stephen Moyer and a few supporting actors are on the screen, however, the show fails to ignite in any sustainable and meaningful way.
  20. Strike Back: Season 4
    The action sequences and fights are briskly shot and edited, the supporting cast is acerbically great.... The worst element of Strike Back’s final go-round looms pretty large in the first half of the season. It’s a contrived story line involving Scott’s son, who turns up in Bangkok wanting to get to know his dad.
  21. 7 Days in Hell
    It’s by no means the deepest thing you’ll watch this year, but you’d have to search far and wide to find a program that hits its chosen target with such concentrated glee.
  22. Between: Season 1
    Though Between doesn’t belong among the most ambitious shows on that roster, it knows what it wants to do and sets about doing it efficiently, effectively and with a minimum of fuss.
  23. Aquarius: Season 1
    David Duchovny is good in all of his scenes in the two-hour Aquarius pilot (which is all I could get through), but the rest of the cast for the period drama is unimpressive.
  24. The Whispers: Season 1
    ABC has a house style, and this workmanlike execution of that style pretty much derails this drama. Many interior scenes are over-lit and thus not spooky, and there’s just a blandness in the casting and the production design that does nothing to help The Whispers build up the kind of mysterious atmosphere it needs to work.
  25. Wayward Pines: Season 1
    The characters are thinner than cardboard cutouts, and I could see every “twist” coming from a mile away.
  26. Penny Dreadful: Season 2
    The achievement of Penny Dreadful is that within its highly stylized, delightfully elaborate and occasionally batsh-t world, it has created complex, fascinating characters--or rather, it has begun to.
  27. Orphan Black: Season 3
    The good news is, Sarah, Cosima and the other clones retain most of the real estate in this gorgeously grimy biothriller, and watching the established characters relate to each other is still a lot of fun.
  28. 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.
  29. iZombie: Season 1
    The good news is that this show's building blocks are very strong. The dialogue, the world and the cast are all enjoyable, and the show simply exudes potential.
  30. Powers: Season 1
    The actors have no chemistry together and their characters lack the kind of depth and texture that a well-crafted TV project would have been able to give them. Various actors frequently have to deliver painful exposition dumps, the storytelling is often incoherent.
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