Uncle Barky's Scores

  • TV
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. Mixed: 0 out of 583
  2. Negative: 0 out of 583
583 tv reviews
    • 37 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    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.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    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.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    There also are some intriguing twists as these beats go on. One Big Happy may be entirely sitcom-y but it’s not thoroughly predictable.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Orville needs considerable work to accomplish whatever it wants to be--assuming that MacFarlane and company even have that answer. For now it’s boldly but very unsteadily going forth, with its jokes working here and there while the action and “messages” bump along at best.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    You might not want to have a TV relationship with these guys either. They're just not much fun on any level.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    [Mark Feuerstein] brings exuberance and a certain likability to the role as a good son who’s still trying to please his parents. But geez, what a grind 9JKL is. You’ll find more originality in the recipe for cream of boiled water soup.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Hits & Mrs. has the usual redundant reality filler and various contrivances.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The bedeviled moms can be bawdy fun on occasion in this broad Fox sitcom. But their unctuous, obnoxious 14-year-olds basically ruin every scene they're in.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The whole enterprise seems way too wobbly to walk upright under its own power.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    A prohibitive favorite for worst new TV show of the year didn’t take long to assume that position.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    It’s a shopworn premise to be sure, but the delivery system overcomes much of that. LeBlanc fine-tunes his doofus Joey persona and smoothly rolls with it at home, at school and in the workplace he shares with older brother Don (a serviceable Kevin Nealon).
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Everything in Chelsea seems painfully forced.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    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.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Piven’s OK in his latest starring role while Jones brings some ‘tude as Cavanaugh.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The star of this ill-conceived show, which also features former congressional policy advisor Matt Stoller as a very uncomfy foil, completely fails to get untracked from halting start to grinding finish.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    A few nice turns by Brawith as Saget aren’t enough to make The Unauthorized Full House Movie more than a connect-the-dots, dish-a-little-dirt, spoon-a-little-sugar, cut-print diversion. Still, it’s nowhere near a desecration, giving fans of the series a basically harmless glimpse at how the thing came together and somehow stayed together.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 16 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Life's A Tripp in reality is nothing more than another Lifetime stumble.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Beauty and the Beast won't hurt all that much to watch, but the dialogue and plot stretches can add up to a lot of little ows.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Its first half-hour comes and goes without providing any further reason to hang out with these guys.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Allen's mere presence may keep it in business for a while. But it already seems as though it belongs on TV Land, where Home Improvement repeats already reside.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    It’s still the usual story of women being victimized and mutilated. Wicked City otherwise is no great shakes in the script department, with Sisto’s Roth spitting out too many lines from a well-worn playbook.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    This is a show without any nutritive value, innate appeal or sense of purpose. It slogs through its muck until the buzzer sounds.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    It succeeds in being more or less stupidly watchable [than Sharknado], but unlikely to prompt anywhere near the same Twitter eruption.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    A show that again shows us what we already know. Politicians are a collective group of crooks who very seldom get what they deserve.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    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
    Laughable? Yeah. Pathetic? Even more so. Degrading? That, too. Entertaining for consulting adult viewers who pay extra for such premium cable fare? Possibly.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Choice already is bad enough but has a few amusing moments to help keep it afloat.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    It's Celebrity Rehab in open spaces with drinking allowed. And during an extremely weak moment, your friendly content provider is going to admit that this steaming pile turns out to be guilty pleasure-approved, even if it's almost assuredly all an act on the part of everyone.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    It leads off the network's Thursday prime-time schedule, with the action originating in Miami and the scripts apparently bought from Godawful, Inc.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    There are lots of swings and misses amid the direct hits. And that's pretty much the way it is with Rob.

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