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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    All American: Season 1
    All-American has overtones of NBC’s exemplary Friday Night Lights, but so far is not in its class.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Golden Boy: Season 1
    The cast is engaging, the premise is intriguing and the genre long has been CBS' ratings-rich specialty.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Funny Or Die Presents America’s Next Weatherman: Season 1
    It’s kind of all over the map for starters, with the funny business sometimes peeking through the clouds while also hiding behind them.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Young Sheldon: Season 1
    Young Sheldon ends up having a mind of its own, even if it’s a prequel to a long-established hit. Armitage and Perry in particular are a perfect pair as precocious son and protective but not overbearing mom. There’s an awful lot to like here, with high expectations not only met but exceeded.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The 100: Season 1
    The 100 ends up being sci-fi fun for all ages--with a spine tingle or two also within these realms of possibilities.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Outsiders: Season 1
    This is a firmly grounded and compelling drama that’s both ripe for lampooning on Saturday Night Life and rich in story possibilities. Its us-against-them template holds solid over the first five episodes.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Marry Me: Season 1
    Marry Me runs a solid second to ABC’s black-ish in the informal competition for best new comedy series of the fall season. Episode 1 gets off to a terrifically inventive start, with Wilson and Marino teeing things up before further hitting their grooves apart from one another.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Devious Maids: Season 1
    After a pretty clumsy start, DM does start to find itself amid a whirl of characters populating not one, not two, but five households.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Crisis: Season 1
    The mood music in Crisis can be over-wrought at times--and downright over-bearing when a male vocalist breaks into “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” But the first two hours are nicely paced and eventful, with the ad hoc partnership between Marcus and an initially resistant Susie gaining traction as the stakes increase.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Hell on Wheels: Season 1
    Hell on Wheels is a big and ambitious stab at the genre, with a lot going on and much to recommend.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Traffic Light: Season 1
    Traffic Light is winning and amusing without being loud and loutish.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Mob City: Season 1
    Mob City at best is barely above average drama from a guy who presumably is still capable of far better. Boardwalk Empire it’s not. Not by a long shot -- or even a rat-a-tat-tat.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Dallas (2012): Season 1
    TNT's brighter, shinier Dallas makes an impressively staged re-entrance Wednesday night.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Gifted: Season 1
    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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Will: Season 1
    Precious little, beyond his storied and enduring plays, is known about Shakespeare’s personal life or even his sexuality. So TNT is making him up as he goes along in a rousing, colorful drama that signifies more than nothing and indeed can often be quite something.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Dexter: Season 6
    Dexter likewise remains in solid shape, with new characters generating some additional heat while its namesake keeps plying his trade.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Grandfathered: Season 1
    It all makes for a nice enough start to a comedy that already appears to have a pretty happy ending in the bank after just the first episode.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Gracepoint: Season 1
    Gracepoint may not be superior to Broadchurch, but makes its own mark as fall’s best new broadcast network drama series--even if in some ways it’s not. Tennant’s estimable talents are the driving force of both versions, with each of the surrounding casts helping to keep him on point.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    American Horror Story: Season 1
    It's a lot to process, and at times too much to take. Still, Horror Story often is a wonder.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Alcatraz: Season 1
    For now, though, this is a series that's seemingly built on an arresting foundation.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Ghosted: Season 1
    Ghosted includes a few halfway decent special effects, but not much else, en route to the inevitable.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: Season 1
    Those who have devoured the swervy, same-named Douglas Adams books could very well find themselves immensely entertained. Those who haven’t--guilty as charged--at least can admire the energy, cheekiness and slick production values without caring all that much how everything comes out.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Telenovela: Season 1
    The show also wears well, with Longoria vigorously in the forefront and a solid supporting cast led by scene-stealers Diana Maria Riva and Alex Meneses.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Muppets (2015): Season 1
    The problem, at least for now, is whether the show can find a happy medium between sharpening itself without resorting to any crude or unduly cutting humor. These first two episodes are watchable enough.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Inbetweeners: Season 1
    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.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    666 Park Avenue: Season 1
    666 Park Avenue doesn't entirely lack a pulse, but doesn't get the blood rushing either.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Real O'Neals: Season 1
    ABC made four episodes available for review. All have their moments, some of them cloying, others amusing.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The First: Season 1
    For now, you’re advised to ride out The First, sluggishness and all. There are enough bright spots to bring it all home, with Mars very gradually getting closer to becoming more than just a talking point.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    All Rise: Season 1
    Nothing you’ll see rises to any level of must-see. Instead it’s all pretty much preachy and pedestrian, with the diversity of the cast working against itself in terms of this show’s labored approach to injustice and discrimination.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    House of Cards (2013): Season 6
    House of Cards also can be a victim of its own excesses, which are now built up into a heavy goo of previous evil and investigations of same by the sometimes ridiculously dogged Tom Hammerschmidt (Boris McGiver). ... Wright’s performance reflects all of [Francis's] cynicism, calculation and deep, unhealed wounds that powered his engine, and now hers as a President who pledges allegiance only to herself and her gender.
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