Uncle Barky's Scores
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For 951 reviews, this publication has graded:
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67% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 67
| Highest review score: | Back to Life: Season 1 | |
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| Lowest review score: | Perfect Couples: Season 1 |
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Zoo very much spares the gore in its less than scintillating but better than lackluster opening hour.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 25, 2015
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It has its moments and is well-appointed with seasoned actors who know how to hit their marks. So if you like Hot In Cleveland, then by all means stick around.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 20, 2011
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Carpenter and Chestnut solidly play their roles, but Enemy Within doesn’t crackle the way The Blacklist did in early episodes. There’s nothing particularly special going on here, and it’s hard to muster the enthusiasm to say much more than that.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 26, 2019
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Just OK, even with the first two episodes directed by the still esteemed Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Diner). This is a series that tends too often tends to drag rather than pull viewers along.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 7, 2016
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Ed Bark
Those who get through the first several hours of this meandering mystery/morality play may well be invested to see it all the way through. It’s not terrible in the end. Nor is it spellbinding or particularly memorable.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 28, 2019
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Ed Bark
Low on initial appeal and likewise short on originality, it’s a bleak ’n’ grim undertaking that just doesn’t seem built for the long haul.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Aug 8, 2013
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Krypton’s special effects are pretty impressive throughout the first five episodes made available for review. But the overall storyline begins to bog down rather badly in the latter hours, making Krypton seem like too much of a slog en route to a seemingly long-in-coming payoff that’s already set in stone.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 20, 2018
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Constantine doubles down on both shape-shifting and puzzlements. Its whiz-bang-boom special effects also might serve as ample enticements for viewers who don’t much care whether anything makes any real sense.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Oct 22, 2014
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The Family’s chances of anything close to long-term survival seem iffy at best. Unlike Secrets and Lies, its cast of characters and premise are set in concrete. Or perhaps quicksand if recent history proves prophetic.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 3, 2016
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Ed Bark
Me, Myself & Irene appears to have boxed itself in. The opening episode is pleasant enough to watch, although not really very amusing. But the prospects for a sustainable series seem highly limited by all that unfolds here.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 21, 2017
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Ed Bark
None of this will cure cancer--or even hemorrhoids. Only in America might qualify as a guilty pleasure, though, with the star of the show agreeably and likably throwing himself into a wide range of activities.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 9, 2011
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Ed Bark
The music has its moments and the comedy occasionally rattles home. Not nearly often enough to make it "Very Funny." But worth a few grins and maybe even a shimmy shake.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Nov 9, 2012
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Hemlock Grove overall falls well short of anything resembling sustained brilliance. Still, each episode may well push just enough buttons to pull you along to the next one.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Apr 24, 2013
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Broader than Dallas at its broadest, ABC's GCB won't be selling smart, stylized urban sophistication when it premieres Sunday night.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 2, 2012
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The ripping good special effects of Syfy’s Defiance harken to Fox’s recently failed and likewise futuristic Terra Nova, which also popped the eyes. In each case, the bigger your DVD screen, the better. Another shared trait: the scripts and story lines tend to be cliche-heavy and sense-dulling predictable.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Apr 11, 2013
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Cedric the Entertainer, Nash and Beasley go with this flow--and flow pretty well.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 20, 2012
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Terra Nova certainly doesn't lack ambition and scope, which is a plus. But its first two hours fall short in the storytelling department.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 26, 2011
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3 rises above the genre's usually tawdry trappings, even if the opening episode is more than a bit static.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jul 25, 2012
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Ed Bark
Piven’s OK in his latest starring role while Jones brings some ‘tude as Cavanaugh.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 29, 2017
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The overriding problem with True Detective 2 is its neck-deep wallow in debasement and self-pity.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 17, 2015
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Star-Crossed looks as though it intends to take itself very seriously as an allegory for a futuristic brand of race relations. It’s also a budding love story, with Emery and Roman blowing hot and cold for one another while a seemingly goodly human student named Grayson (Grey Damon) hopes to cut in and claim her.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 13, 2014
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You'll likely guess every development at least a minute or two beforehand. But Peterman's enthusiasm for her role is tangibly contagious, making it possible that a decent percentage of opening night viewers might RSVP in the affirmative to this show's overall "Ya'll come back, ya hear" motif.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 28, 2011
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Ed Bark
Amazon Prime takes a big swing here, and doesn’t entirely miss. More was anticipated, though, with High Castle so far tending to buckle under the weight of some very heavy ambitions and expectations.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Nov 18, 2015
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Hours two and three, also made available for review, are somewhat better executed [than the premiere episode].- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 6, 2017
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Claws never lacks for energy, and its premise and cast composition are somewhat novel. But what it too often lacks is dexterity and texture.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 7, 2017
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Ed Bark
Some of this is diverting or at least laughable enough to play along.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 4, 2013
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At one extreme, you want Santa dead. At the other, it can get to be ho ho hum in a hurry.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Dec 5, 2017
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Ed Bark
One viewer’s bad taste is another’s comedy gold. And Man Seeking Woman arguably has just enough going for it to merit a further investment in its remaining eight episodes.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 14, 2015
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Winchester is a solid enough presence as Kane.... Although this isn’t a flat-out terrible series, don’t bet on NBC having a winner opposite fearsome time slot competition from CBS’ Thursday Night Football and ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder. No one likes those odds.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 23, 2015
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That initial heat from Season 1 has been lowered to room temperature. Kinnaman continues to give The Killing a pulse. But he can’t do it alone, and at this point merits a new, more vital vehicle in which he can really gun his engines.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 3, 2013
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Through it all, Peters again excels--performance-wise, at least--as a Trump acolyte whose fires burn white hot from election night on. His full investments in deranged characters remain a wonder to behold. But as Kai’s manipulations thicken, so do AHS: Cult’s overall misfires and excesses.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Aug 31, 2017
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Through its first three episodes, Yellowstone is big and broad and a little too full of misfires. But it’s never as determinedly over the top as Dallas or Dynasty, both of which can be seen as ancestors.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 18, 2018
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This all probably sounds ridiculous, and pretty much is. Even so, Valor is more entertaining and accessible in its own way than network TV’s two other hard-charging combat hours. Ochoa and Barr blast off in their lead roles and also play well together.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Oct 6, 2017
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The Inbetweeners seems to be experiencing the growing pains of its principal characters. A better start would have been preferable, but at least the show's weekly slings and arrows are pointing upward.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Aug 21, 2012
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Over the top? Yeah. Closer to the truth of the matter? That, too.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Apr 5, 2012
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It bounces off the walls of St. Matthew’s, with its rush-about protagonist flirting, sobbing, threatening, cajoling and commiserating, all the while trying to find the true meaning of something or other. Sedative, please. STAT.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 18, 2016
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The initial two hours move along at a fairly crisp pace, complete with skulking and several close calls but next to nothing spent on special effects.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jul 12, 2017
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Da Vinci’s Demons halfway succeeds on the strength of its vigorous, devil-may-care approach, even if it’s also almost thoroughly preposterous in terms of the central character’s deductive powers and abilities.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Apr 10, 2013
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Fuller House isn’t going to win any awards for being exactly what its predecessor was--an utterly formulaic sitcom that ranked among prime-time’s 20 most popular series in four of its eight seasons. But seriously, it’s a surprise to see how well the grown-up Bure, Sweetin and Barber work together in the service of a show that employed them as kids, cast them off and now is welcoming them back instead of re-casting.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 24, 2016
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But oh the machinations. And diversions. And overly long, leisurely scenes that keep sinking Game of Thrones into a quicksand of its own making.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Apr 14, 2011
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Superior Donuts may well get stale in a hurry. But it’s on a network that somehow has kept the idiotic and likewise eatery-themed 2 Broke Girls on the air for an astonishing six seasons. And this one is better than that.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 31, 2017
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A Gifted Man won't kill any brain cells if you want to give it a try. But it's not all there yet with an unwieldy mix that also includes two life-threatening cases, a few scenes with Michael's frazzled sister, Christina (Julie Benz) and her problematic teen son and an attempted exorcism of sorts by a mystic named Anton (Pablo Schreiber).- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 22, 2011
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Ed Bark
The first episode is a cut or two better than so-so, with Cooper’s brief but pivotal appearance something that many opening night viewers might be willing to wait on. Don’t get too used to him, though.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 22, 2015
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The Resident already seems to be straining credulity with the demonic Dr. Bell. How long can he rule with an iron fist as the hospital’s most-requested celebrity surgeon? That hand isn’t getting any steadier while his ego shows no sign of downsizing. This isn’t supposed to be a soap opera in the mode of Dallas, so Bell seemingly can’t get away with being a broadly drawn J.R. Ewing. Something’s got to give. And I’m interested just enough in The Resident to see if something soon does.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 18, 2018
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Epps has his moments, the kids are well-cast and there are a few good lines. But you won’t be missing much if your Tuesday nights are already reserved for NBC’s competing America’s Got Talent.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 14, 2016
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Ed Bark
Thursday's series premiere ends up being watchable but not really something to phone your friends about.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 24, 2012
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Ed Bark
Those who book full passage for Season One’s 10 episodes may or may not get full closure. The Alienist, which closes out Episode 2 with Moore at the mercy of gangland forces and their young boy prostitutes, so far is trying terribly hard to be darkly spellbinding. Toward that end, it has yet to make its case.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 22, 2018
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The Crossing has just enough going for it to invite a second look. Then again, it doesn’t yet seem dynamic enough to be worth a long-term investment--or a short-term disappointment if ABC cancels it without resolving much of anything.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 30, 2018
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The Blacklist is watchable but patently unbelievable and increasingly unpalatable.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 18, 2013
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[The show] results in a picturesque endeavor that otherwise suffers from a lot of padded redundancy.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Aug 13, 2012
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There are likely to be more to come on a network that only occasionally fails to keep its crime hours in play for multiple seasons. Ransom is easier to take than some of them, and with a hero who doesn’t have to brandish a gun to get the job done.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 3, 2017
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The newcomer is unlikely to provoke much dinner table conversation, but goes down easily enough while trying not to leave any really bitter aftertastes.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 4, 2011
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They're [the initial episodes of Anger Management are] somewhat more amusing than expected.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 27, 2012
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Their [Eliza and Henry's] odd couple liaison occasionally begins clicking from a humor standpoint.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 29, 2014
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Alley, Perlman and Richards were far more gainfully employed on their previous classic comedy series. Now they’re in a sense doing dinner theater in Yuma but seemingly having a good time together nonetheless.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Dec 3, 2013
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The semi-dreaded but not altogether unwelcome "not terrible" tag is visited upon CBS' latest Monday night comedy entry.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 11, 2011
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The Mindy Project is a minor disappointment in light of all the accomplished guest stars populating its opening half-hour.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 20, 2012
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The story dawdles at times, despite efforts to spice things up with some of that good ol’ Old Testament iniquity.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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Welcome to the Family is a passable half-hour that fends for itself without a laugh track and manages to deliver a few un-goosed grins.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Oct 3, 2013
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I Feel Bad has appealing leads in the two younger parents, but is still trying to find a solid footing for itself amid some amusing moments now and then. The workplace segments take up too much of the show without rising above being a minor annoyance. And the domestic tribulations have a shopworn feel.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 18, 2018
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The 24 franchise still takes itself very seriously and perhaps will somehow sort things out from a basic believability standpoint as time marches on. But in the first four hours, it’s too often 24: Cuckoo Clock.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 3, 2017
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Fresh Off the Boat paddles hard in its efforts to be an amusing comedy with heart. So far, the parents--not the featured kid--are the primary reasons to watch.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 2, 2015
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Houdini & Doyle likely won’t set anyone’s heart aflutter or the ratings on fire. But it looks like a passable spring/summer diversion and also just a bit of a history lesson on what these two guys were all about.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Apr 28, 2016
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Phillippe and Lewis as the two principal characters are not potent enough to get the juices flowing in an unfolding crime tale that’s neither terrible nor scintillating.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 26, 2015
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Well, the play’s the thing in this one, but Johnson is the hammer and tongs. At age 65, he still seems up to the challenge of stirring up this little petroleum potboiler. The kids are all right but he’s the man.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 25, 2015
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Growing Up Fisher is no About a Boy, although at times it’s not half-bad. The relationship between the freewheeling Mel and wide-eyed Henry has its sweet spots.... Elfman’s Joyce, however, is an all too typical blend of aging TV mom striving to be young, cool and alluring again. Her clashes with sour teen daughter Katie (Ava Deluca-Verley) tend to get old in a hurry.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 21, 2014
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Ed Bark
Unlike Cheers, the newcomer has inclusiveness going for it. But the writing is no match at all.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 28, 2019
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Falling Skies holds few if any surprises, although its action scenes and impressively designed creatures still have pulling power.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 15, 2012
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All in all, Crossbones is about as believable as Casanova in a seminary. But there’s some fun to be had and some Malkovich to behold.- Uncle Barky
- Posted May 29, 2014
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It somehow manages to be more inviting than ABC's new and thoroughly preposterous Zero Hour, although both series could be the stuff of sadistic semester-ending writing essays.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 19, 2013
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War of the Damned doesn't spare any of it en route to its no doubt hellish conclusion. But the characters aren't as compelling as they once were, rendering the fight scenes even more voyeuristic.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 23, 2013
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Ed Bark
So far it’s strictly so-so on the storytelling front, but with some scenes that raise the bar beyond that. Those mostly involve Light, though. And she’s not the one who’s supposed to carry the load.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 14, 2017
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Sons of Liberty can’t match Vikings’ intensity, ferocity and full-immersion sense of place. Instead it’s a serviceable battle cry in some instances but rather laughable in others.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 22, 2015
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Unsupervised might induce at least a small handful of smiles per episode. But only if its mood strikes you.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 19, 2012
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Leoni is fine in the title role and Daly is thoroughly dutiful as her heaven-sent husband. But the accomplished Neuwirth is little seen in the first hour while Ivanek is getting stuck in a rut of playing basically the same character over and over. What’s missing from Madame Secretary is an overriding reason to keep watching. Nothing really crackles so far.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 19, 2014
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Grimm is buoyed by some decent special effects and snarky wolfman Monroe, who will be a series regular. But it's not nearly as imaginative, involving or picturesque as ABC's fairy tale offering, Once Upon A Time.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Oct 25, 2011
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Hit the Road is relentlessly broad and determinedly offensive. It’s also quite funny in fits and spurts, primarily when Alexander is throwing the fits and having the spurts.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Oct 17, 2017
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Animal Kingdom is nowhere near in the same league as The Americans or Fargo or the recently ended Justified. And if it’s trying to be Sons of Anarchy ... well, I think most viewers finally had enough of that, too.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 14, 2016
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Creature Shop Challenge is inviting enough to merit another look. Not for its pro forma adherence to the “reality competition” handbook but for whatever creative hoops await its very eager group of contestants.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Mar 25, 2014
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Anderson is quite good in the lead role, though, and Sasse nicely upholds his half of the equation. But No Tomorrow decidedly is not a step-up from either Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or Jane the Virgin.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Oct 3, 2016
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Some interesting conversation does seep through, though, as part of what the host terms "the universal language of women."- Uncle Barky
- Posted Apr 27, 2012
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Parents of kiddoes, tweens and young teens can be assured that all of this is quite harmless.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Nov 4, 2013
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The Kennex-Dorian combo is the best part of Almost Human, which otherwise keeps twisting and turning itself into a series of unwieldy plot knots.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Nov 15, 2013
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Unlike The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl, there arguably are too many characters to service here. Add a lot of attendant gobbledygook and mostly shopworn banter.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 21, 2016
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This is an amiable enough little comedy series that doesn’t use religion as a punching bag.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 27, 2018
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Kartheiser, who’s taking what he can get these days, has grown a beard for the role of the rather zany Bodie. The role is somewhat fleshed out in Episode 4, but it’s still not much to speak of. Lefevre, who co-starred in CBS’ summertime Under the Dome series, has some crackle as the head protagonist in Presumed Innocent. ... Presumed Innocent also can be transparently heavy-handed in its political leanings.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 14, 2019
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Ed Bark
This one lands somewhere between a pleasant surprise and better-than-expected.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 13, 2016
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Sunday's 90-minute premiere makes for an unintended hoot, both ridiculous and often ridiculously watchable.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jul 12, 2012
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The River in comparison seems like stale tap water, unworthy of any prolonged big drink of time or effort.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 6, 2012
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This energetically produced, brightly colored concoction hits the guilty pleasure spot more often than not.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 17, 2013
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Weatherly is the here, the now and the only overriding reason to watch Bull. On his own or in the NCIS ensemble, his star quality is obvious and likely enough to carry Bull through a multi-season run.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Sep 16, 2016
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One doesn’t expect a whole lot of nuance from Last Ship maestro Michael Bay, who’s also produced all four Transformers movies, with another one in the works. You just sit back, swallow this thing whole and wait for sturdy, studly, stolid Captain Chandler to fire off another round of uniformed rhetoric.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 20, 2014
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Good Omens continues to have its special effects moments. But there aren’t enough of them to overcome the basic tedium afflicting it.- Uncle Barky
- Posted May 30, 2019
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This latest Marvel concoction is better than ABC’s Marvel’s Inhumans, which launched on Friday of last week. Still, an overall weariness prevails, perhaps even among the most fanatical Marvel diehards.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Oct 2, 2017
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Lines like ""Did you feel that? It was like the Fourth of July in my mouth." help to make Lost Girl see-worthy without taking it to the level of must-see.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jan 3, 2012
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The script very occasionally crackles when not making a fool of itself with lines like, “Badge or no badge, I’ll always come after scum like you.” Most of the better lines go to Bishop when confronting Hollister about his overall comportment. Deputy otherwise is never too far from an action scene replete with automatic weapons fire.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Dec 30, 2019
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The end result isn’t a very good biopic and certainly not a noble one.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 25, 2013
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The screws need some tightening but the basics are in place and the cast is more than capable.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Feb 10, 2015
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After a pretty clumsy start, DM does start to find itself amid a whirl of characters populating not one, not two, but five households.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jun 20, 2013
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Things aren’t breezy enough here to be a jaunty sword-and-dagger fest. Talon is too serious-minded for that with her understandable determination to kill her mother’s killers in addition to avenging the attempted wiping out of an entire race. The first episode never dawdles in this respect. Future hours may calm down considerably on the action front. But even at a slower pace, The Outpost seems to promise enough mayhem, intrigue and burgeoning feminism to make for a satisfying enough summer run.- Uncle Barky
- Posted Jul 10, 2018
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