The Lincoln Journal Star's Scores

  • TV
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. Mixed: 0 out of 138
  2. Negative: 0 out of 138
138 tv reviews
  1. Give me a little more music and a little less soap opera, and we may have something here.
  2. The new sitcom is formulaic, with one joke following another punctuated by a laugh track--even when the jokes aren’t funny, and many of them are not.
  3. This one’s preachy, overly dramatic and everything you would expect from a show like this.
  4. Ellis is charming, but this nothing more than another buddy cop procedural.
  5. There’s a third storyline involving a cow. Really, I’m not kidding. These, I’m guessing will come together, at some point, but I’m not sure I’ll be willing to wait that long for the payoff.
  6. The pilot had more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese.
  7. This procedural revolves around their predictable relationship.
  8. If you like “Family Guy’s” crude, lewd and offensive humor, you’ll love this one. I lasted 15 minutes.
  9. The story sort of has a “Bourne Identity” element to it. The pilot is an eye-roller, with the main storyline featuring Bean infiltrating a survivalist camp.
  10. Believe it or not, the comedy’s not crass enough to really generate the laughs it should.
  11. It’s mildly amusing.
  12. The first hour is confusing and the acting a bit forced, so it may try your patience.
  13. A little over the top--well, actually, a lot over the top--the pilot is filled with one eye-rolling surprise after another.
  14. The drama is nothing more than a video game, with a story secondary to the blood and sex.
  15. It’s a family comedy, one of many on the network, that, at times, has its moments. There’s just too few of them.
  16. Kazinsky is bland. As is the seen-it-before strained relationship between him and his “son,” an FBI agent played by Tim DeKay. The strange dynamic between twin brother and sister, however, is the reason I will give it a second chance.
  17. P.D.'s also loud--the percussive soundtrack is headache-inducing--formulaic and predictable, not at all like "The Shield."
  18. Inhumans is more comic book-y, with an emphasis on special effects. The target audience appears to be teenagers rather than a mass audience. The effects, though, which include a teleporting giant dog, are pretty cool.
  19. Paxton steals just about every scene he’s in.
  20. The action is good, with all three actors receiving and dishing out their fair share of abuse, but the story is, literally, difficult to follow.
  21. The pilot is mildly amusing. Neither Foo, nor Hires, is as engaging as Tucker and Chan, and the chemistry between them is lacking.
  22. Sometimes it’s funny, but most of the time it’s just bizarre.
  23. Fans of the books probably will like it because they know what the heck is happening. I was lost.
  24. A few more stabs at 1990s pop culture would go a long way in making this better.
  25. The comedy comes off as a less funny “Modern Family,” with the daughters uncannily similar (one’s dim and fashionable; the other is smart and geeky) to the “MF” girls.
  26. Other than Zane, the acting is sub-par and the writing painful.
  27. The pilot is rough, with much of the humor dealing with sex and male genitalia, which seems like something you would find in a Seth McFarlane show.
  28. I found myself not caring much about Kyle, Budgie or what any of these tattoos mean, but the cinematography is grand.
  29. The pilot's humor is juvenile, including a bunch of toilet references, although I did laugh at the baby pool turned into a large margarita. Things pick up in episode two, but not by much.
  30. Damien is nothing more than cliche, right down to the use of Rottweilers as hellhounds.

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