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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. The Strain: Season 1
    Despite a great deal of visible effort, the first four episodes of The Strain never succeeded in making Corey Stoll's epidemiologist character even remotely compelling. Unfortunately most of the other characters are even more superficial and predictable, which made it nearly impossible to stay engaged when they began doing dumb things. The only real bright spot in The Strain is David Bradley.
  2. Extant: Season 1
    Though Extant is competently made, it shares a problem with another new TV show with a big name attached. Like "Extant," "The Strain," which arrives Sunday and boasts Guillermo Del Toro as one of its executive producers, feels kind of bland and bloodless.
  3. The Leftovers: Season 1
    The Leftovers is interesting television, even if, in the early going, it's not quite sure of what it wants to be or where it wants to go.
  4. Tyrant: Season 1
    It's surprising to me that this ever got past the development stage, because nothing about Tyrant truly works. It's a halting, strained hodgepodge that ends up being an awkward mixture of bland and offensive.
  5. Rectify: Season 2
    This wonderful, resonant show clearly has a deep belief in the power of redemption and connection.
  6. 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.
  7. Orange is the New Black: Season 2
    Even if not every storyline sings and if Season 2 occasionally lacks the forward momentum that Pipex gave it, I still marvel at the urgency that underpins much of OITNB.
  8. Halt and Catch Fire: Season 1
    There's a tentativeness to Halt's first hour--it doesn't end especially strongly--but overall, the drama has a mostly credible pilot and lead actors who will probably be able take the show in compelling directions.
  9. Crossbones: Season 1
    Everything around Malkovich is workmanlike and rather predictable, if competent.
  10. Undateable (2014): Season 1
    Undateable, a show that does not set out to reinvent the multi-camera hangout comedy but execute that format reasonably well, turned out to be a generally pleasant surprise.
  11. The Normal Heart
    The film just about rises above its many flaws, thanks to a some committed and affecting performances from seasoned actors like Mark Ruffalo, Joe Mantello and a surprisingly effective Julia Roberts.
  12. Penny Dreadful: Season 1
    Penny Dreadful's gory moments are deployed strategically, and the adjective that best describes this show is not "bloody" but "soulful."
  13. Louie: Season 4
    There's still nothing like it on TV, because there aren't too many people out there capable of excavating their brains with this much rigor, wit and insight.
  14. 24: Live Another Day: Season 9
    Going by the first two hours, this new incarnation of the show exactly as 24-ish as you'd want it to be.
  15. Orphan Black: Season 2
    The weight of expectations on this new season were great, and if this plucky show staggers a little under that weight, that's understandable. I'm fully on board for Season 2, and I have every reason to believe Orphan Black will keep evolving in the direction of perfection. Science demands it.
  16. Fargo: Season 1
    Fargo develops into a solid pleasure; it's studded with telling details, excellent performances and satisfying subplots Fargo" develops into a solid pleasure; it's studded with telling details, excellent performances and satisfying subplots.
  17. The Bletchley Circle: Season 2
    It's not as ambitious as Mad Men, of course, but it has its own very real pleasures.
  18. Turn: Washington's Spies: Season 1
    In execution, Turn is plodding, predictable and a bit confusing, though I might have tried harder to follow the plot had any of the characters made it worth my while. As it is, the characters are mostly paper-thin and forgettable.
  19. Game of Thrones: Season 4
    Even when the show is scene-setting mode (as it is in these early episodes), GoT now excels at slipping exposition into meaty character moments, and the cast is terrific at nailing what's in the scripts and much more beyond that.
  20. Silicon Valley: Season 1
    It arrives fully formed and packed with smart observations that will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest technology, modern capitalism and geek culture. Even if you don't care about those things, Silicon Valley works as a well-crafted ensemble comedy about a particularly eccentric workplace.
  21. The 100: Season 1
    The good news is this modest show already has a number of things in its favor: Its pace is bracing, the choices are difficult and the danger the characters face is real.
  22. Crisis: Season 1
    Crisis is efficient without really ever becoming enticing.
  23. Believe: Season 1
    Believe substitutes mawkish sentiment for character development and thinks mysterious incidents and procedural beats constitute a story.
  24. Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey: Season 1
    There are a lot of shows on TV that are fun, many that are educational and a number that are beautiful to look at, but it's rare for a show to have all of those qualities in abundance.
  25. The Americans: Season 2
    Very few shows are able to combine pleasurable episodic storytelling so deftly with solid character building and delicious suspense, but the first five episodes of the new season do that with style, not to mention period-perfect wigs.
  26. Mixology: Season 1
    ABC is advertising that the show's creators wrote "The Hangover," but imagine that movie with the heart and charm removed, and you're left with these skeevy remains.
  27. About A Boy: Season 1
    The cast is very good and if the central relationships are beefed up, it could be a keeper.
  28. Growing Up Fisher: Season 1
    The problem is, like "Sean Saves the World" and "The Michael J. Fox Show," this show is formulaic, slightly frantic and relies too much on unearned sentiment.
  29. Star-Crossed: Season 1
    There's a tentative blandness to 'Star-Crossed' that hindered my ability to care about any of its broadly sketched characters.
  30. Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond: Season 1
    Cooper does a solid job with the title role, and the early installments have an engaging briskness. However, Fleming drags a bit in its second half; given its slender budget, it might have worked better as a three-episode miniseries.
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