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For 188 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 79% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 19% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Lowest review score: 16 Secrets and Lies: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 138 out of 138
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 138
  3. Negative: 0 out of 138
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  1. The Catch: Season 1
    [Enos is] kind of fun, especially when she’s matching wits with the veteran Krause. And Krause is perfect. He’s smooth, suave and charming. You’re rooting as much for him to elude Enos as you are for Enos to catch him. Let’s hope this chase lasts awhile.
  2. BrainDead: Season 1
    The Kings’ clever summer horror thriller.
  3. Chance: Season 1
    Chance is paced extremely well, building with tension from the outset. It’ll hook you, then surprise you.
  4. The Red Road: Season 1
    It’s the kind of show that sits with you long after it’s over.
  5. True Detective: Season 1
    The drama is quite riveting.
  6. You're the Worst: Season 2
    While Geere and Cash are razor sharp, the supporting cast are just as entertaining, if not more so.
  7. The Night Of: Season 1
    The wide-eyed Ahmed is perfect as the naive young man who can’t seem to make a right decision. That is until he agrees to let Turturro’s Jack Stone help him. And Turturro hits the right notes as the cynical attorney who has his work cut out for him.
  8. Stranger Things: Season 1
    The series is fun, scary and a perfect tribute to the era, including the spot-on hairdos and clothes.
  9. Santa Clarita Diet: Season 1
    Netflix has been hit (“Master of None”) and miss (“The Ranch”) with its comedies. This one falls in the former category, and will leave you “hungry” for more episodes.
  10. Powerless: Season 1
    The comedy pokes appropriate fun at the superhero genre and is one of the freshest sitcoms to come along in a long time.
  11. Claws: Season 1
    Sassy and fun.
  12. Black Mirror: Season 3
    The third season picks up right where the the other two left off, with more suspenseful tales “exploring themes of contemporary techno paranoia.”
  13. 24: Live Another Day: Season 9
    The good news is the limited series is just as entertaining.
  14. Master of None: Season 1
    There are times when the dialogue is rough and doesn’t flow quite right, but not enough to overshadow the humor. Ansari has a gem of a show here.
  15. Better Things: Season 1
    Aldon is a hoot. Her character Sam is rough around the edges, which makes her extremely relatable. The series hits its stride in episode two when Sam speaks at her middle daughter’s school about female empowerment.
  16. People of Earth: Season 1
    The comedy, and there’s a bunch of it, comes from the support group members--as you can imagine, nobody believes their stories--and the aliens, who generate some very, very funny and spot-on workplace humor in a spaceship setting.
  17. Madoff: Season 1
    This one’s worth watching for Richard Dreyfus’ performance as the scheming con man, Bernie Madoff.
  18. Bloodline: Season 1
    Bloodline unfolds like a good novel. It’s so well acted, that like a good book, it’s hard to stay away from it
  19. FEUD: Season 1
    This is just pure camp. This is what Murphy does best. Get out the popcorn.
  20. Public Morals: Season 1
    Burns gives us a good old-fashioned crime tale, just the kind of thing we need to end our summer.
  21. The Whispers: Season 1
    It’s creepy, especially when the children talk to the unseen Drill.
  22. The Librarians (2014): Season 1
    This is over-the-top. And extremely fun. And here’s hoping Wyle recurs often.
  23. Six: Season 1
    While action scenes from such military fare as “The Last Ship” come off as a bit hokey, that’s not the case with Six. The combat looks and feels real. That’s a credit to the Broyles. With TV veterans Goggins and Sloane, the acting’s on par with action.
  24. Trial & Error: Season 1
    The humor is a combination of sight gags, slapstick and wordplay. And, again, nobody does it better than Lithgow in all three phases.
  25. The Sinner: Season 1
    The Sinner is a procedural. But unlike most others that are obsessed with the “who,” this gets at the “why.” Talk about intriguing.
  26. The Returned (2015): Season 1
    What Cuse and Tucker have done best is maintain the eerie tone and feel from the original.
  27. iZombie: Season 1
    Like “Mars,” part of iZombie’s appeal is the banter among the characters.
  28. Billions: Season 1
    The series is an examination of wealth-and-power politics, with Lewis and Giamatti playing their roles devilishly well, with an emphasis on the devil part. It’s juicy good fun.
  29. The Last Ship: Season 1
    It’s been a “24”-like thrill ride so far, with baddies coming at the ship right and left to get their hands on the doc and the in-the-works cure.
  30. Search Party (2016): Season 1
    The draw here is watching how unraveling the mystery results in Dory finding herself and taking charge of her life. She just needed a little prompting.
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