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For 951 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 67% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 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: 100 Back to Life: Season 1
Lowest review score: 0 Perfect Couples: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 583 out of 583
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 583
  3. Negative: 0 out of 583
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Modern Love: Season 1
    Despite its varying trials and travails, Modern Love strives for an overall feel-good vibe that isn’t always entirely earned. For the most part, it’s gentle on the mind and soothing to the nerves in times when The New York Times front page is a steady drumbeat of downers.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Man Seeking Woman: Season 1
    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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Santa Clarita Diet: Season 1
    Once one gets past the gruesome goings-on in Episode One, it’s full tilt ahead in a crazily appetizing tale that’s easily swallowed whole.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Girl: Season 1
    Real truths invariably come out, and this is a film that convincingly rings with them.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Madam Secretary: Season 1
    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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Borgias: Season 1
    Despite all the aforementioned intrigues, The Borgias so far isn't quite as bawdy, foul-minded or over the top as its predecessor. It moves more deliberately, sometimes a bit ploddingly.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Ozark: Season 1
    Ozark makes its bones via Bateman’s solid work, another reliably strong performance from Linney and an intriguing if sometimes over-populated immorality play that tantalizingly firms its grip.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Go On: Season 1
    Go On obviously won't be off the charts ratings-wise, as Friends was for most of its run. It might settle in, though, with Perry still a solidly capable comedic actor looking to nest a while.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Season 1
    Jack Ryan goes above and beyond the pro forma basics of getting the job done. This is a thrilling and energetic enterprise replete with well-drawn characters and propulsive action. Binge-watchers, start your engines.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    A to Z: Season 1
    Charming and disarming without yet being exceptional, NBC’s breezy A to Z nonetheless comfortably wins this season’s boy-meets-girl bout against ABC’s similarly themed Manhattan Love Story.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Carter: Season 1
    Viewers choosing to go along for these rides won’t encounter anything too penetrating. Carter goes no deeper than its title character acting rather pleased with himself.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    2 Broke Girls: Season 1
    I liked this first episode better the first time around. Upon further review, its excesses and kitchen sink humor aren't wearing as well.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Shots Fired: Season 1
    More than halfway through, Shots Fired is still without any indictments while bobbing and weaving through various subplots. Still, it’s drama of a fairly high order.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Shameless (US): Season 1
    Shameless instead is about as uplifting as rectal cancer, even though it's hard not to at least respect the gumption and resilience of Fiona. Rossum's performance in this role is all together pretty terrific.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Revenge: Season 1
    Sometimes you just want a single serving, with the table cleared by episode's end. This one keeps passing its spinning plates while re-stating the obvious.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Castle Rock (2018): Season 1
    Castle Rock looks to be one of the best King things in years.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Red Road: Season 1
    Red Road gets more gripping by the hour, although it still feels like a drop-off whenever Momoa isn’t on screen.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1
    Fear the Walking Dead probably is in no danger of becoming and out-and-out flop in its first season. But its opening episode is appreciably less gripping than the 2010 unveiling of the smash hit original.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Bates Motel: Season 1
    A&E's Bates Motel is both mesmerizing and sometimes absurd in its rewind to Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) as a repressed 17-year-old.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Love Is ___: Season 1
    The producers of Love Is __ clearly know this terrain better than most. And they hope to make it accessible to audiences of all colors without losing the flavors that make it unique.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    New Girl: Season 1
    Fox seems to be on the right track, though, with a lead character who has ample potential to gawkily bloom and grow.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Once Upon a Time: Season 1
    Fans of the fantastical can do far worse than Once Upon A Time, which manages to both stir the pulse and please the senses with its beautifully imagined medieval times.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Newsroom: Season 2
    Few TV dramas are as thought-provoking or daringly opinionated. Sorkin doesn’t always get everything right. Who the hell does? But he writes with purpose, force and conviction, sometimes with a heavier hand than necessary.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Twisted: Season 1
    By the end of Episode 1, Twisted has imbedded its hook with open questions about a mysterious necklace and Danny’s connection to its past.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Person of Interest: Season 1
    Together they'll be the brains and brawn of this operation in times when the broadcast networks aren't particularly interested in take-charge men with acquired tastes for pounding the hell out of bad guys--or shooting them in their thighs. Thanks. We maybe needed that.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    American Horror Story: Season 7
    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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Good Omens: Season 1
    Good Omens continues to have its special effects moments. But there aren’t enough of them to overcome the basic tedium afflicting it.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Wayward Pines: Season 1
    Wayward Pines looks as though it has the potential to rise above its false starts while grippingly spooling out truths that are “worse than anything you could even imagine.”
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Sons of Liberty: Season 1
    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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Red Line: Season 1
    Wyle’s lead performance is solid, although more than a little weepy. ... Red Line is a revelation, though, in terms of introducing Aliyah Royale to a national audience. Her portrayal of Jira is terrifically compelling and natural. ... Red Line force-feeds more than it should. It has some messages of true value while also failing to resonate to the degree it could have and should have.
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