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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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Rush Hour (2016): Season 1
    This is a series that CBS should have kept doing without. But 18 years after Rush Hour hit it very big, here’s a TV version that for the most part falls flatter than a thug on the receiving end of a Yan Naing Lee kick.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Animal Practice: Season 1
    Kirk just doesn't click in the lead role. Nor do most of the words he's given.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Great Escape: Season 1
    Nothing really jells here.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Saint George: Season 1
    Williams and Lopez are certainly capable of churning this stuff out and cashing in before the Hollywood sun sets on them. Just don’t expect much, if any, craftsmanship.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Gigolos: Season 1
    Laughable? Yeah. Pathetic? Even more so. Degrading? That, too. Entertaining for consulting adult viewers who pay extra for such premium cable fare? Possibly.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Champions: Season 1
    Some of the scenes play out OK, and Favreau has a marginally winning way with the doofus brother he plays. As the self-described scene-stealer, newcomer Totah also gets in a few good jabs. None of this seems nearly good enough, though, to make Champions more than a likely short-termer on the TV sitcom conveyor belt.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Star: Season 1
    Perhaps Star will evolve and hit some higher notes in future episodes. But its premiere hour is mostly a patchwork quilt of fairly effective performance segments and threadbare storylines.
    • 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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Happy Together: Season 1
    Tthe season’s slightest new sitcom on a network that has done much better by this genre in recent seasons with the likes of Young Sheldon, Mom and Life In Pieces. In this case, the premise simply has no foreseeable promise.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Work It : Season 1
    Koldyke isn't lacking in effort or enthusiasm when it comes to getting all dressed up. That's not nearly enough to hold this thing together, though.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Banshee: Season 1
    Its overall implausibility and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink plotting work against what little promise Banshee has.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    1600 Penn: Season 1
    There's nothing to get outraged about, unless you want to rail against substandard comedy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Manhattan Love Story: Season 1
    The dialogue and interior monologues occasionally have some snap. But Manhattan Love Story mostly is pretty thin soup in a city known for its delis. Seconds are not recommended.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Twin Peaks: The Return: Season 1
    Twin Peaks is rambling on anyway, providing little morsels of enjoyment amid all the numbing nonsense.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Guys With Kids: Season 1
    Guys with Kids is over-populated, under-funny and no match for the simple charms of Three Men and a Baby, the surprise mega-hit of 1987.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Happyish: Season 1
    Happyish has a few genuinely imaginative moments amid its many, many excesses. But in the end, it’s too much of a one-note Hell-On-Earth “Greatest Hits” album whose principal characters have the overall appeal of vinegar-drenched cotton candy.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Bob's Burgers: Season 1
    The deadpan deliveries of its principal characters can be very moderately amusing at times. But in the end, you probably won't want fries with this one.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Those Who Kill: Season 1
    Sevigny works hard at being complex, haunted, etc. while the show around her collapses into a voyeuristic mess with a denouement that makes one wonder how Catherine Jensen could possibly remain on the force beyond the opening episode.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Blood & Treasure: Season 1
    Globe trots to and fro with a mix of banter that tends to fall flat and action scenes that sometimes play a little better. Unfortunately, cases aren’t opened and shut within a single episode.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Cape: Season 1
    What's supposed to be a taut and many-splendored mythical yarn in league with Heroes instead registers as a topsy turvy laughable feast complete with chapter titles.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Fix: Season 1
    The Fix hits too close to the bone. Whatever Marcia Clark’s disclaimers, this is all about her and a case that remains dirty to the touch.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    I Wanna Marry Harry: Season 1
    Every one of these things needs a she-devil or two. It’s a necessary ingredient along with all the usual, clunkier nonsense.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Texas Rising: Season 1
    By the end of Chapter Two, many viewers might well be in the mood to detour elsewhere rather than follow Houston’s plea to “follow me a little longer down this twisted, bloody road.”
    • 32 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Ghost Shark
    It succeeds in being more or less stupidly watchable [than Sharknado], but unlikely to prompt anywhere near the same Twitter eruption.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Ascension: Season 1
    Ascension aspires to be a cautionary tale on a grand scale. But its cardboard characters and a paint-by-the-numbers script just aren’t up to the task.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Necessary Roughness: Season 1
    Thorne's performance occasionally threatens to rise above this mess. But it's tough to overcome a narrative opening line that goes like this: "My dad used to say life is like a football game. There's winners and there's losers."
    • 51 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Houdini: Season 1
    Brody’s performance is borderline capable within the constraints of an at best mediocre combination of writing and story construction. But Harry Houdini’s incredible story still awaits a master re-telling. And this one doesn’t even come close.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Friends with Better Lives: Season 1
    For now it’s pretty much something you wouldn’t wish on your best friends.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Coupled: Season 1
    Faint praise to be sure. But Coupled rises above them all [reality dating shows such as Conveyor Belt of Love, Chains of Love, Who Wants to Marry My Dad?, Dating in the Dark, Room Raiders, The Littlest Groom and My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance] to take its rightful place as--at the very best--a guilty summertime pleasure.
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