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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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Broadchurch: Season 2
    Tennant and Colman still command center stage, but not without considerable help from the incoming fellow thespians. Under these circumstances, It’s not a case of the more the merrier. Instead it’s an even richer recipe for a seriously dramatic series that already had an A-game in place.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Night Manager: Season 1
    The Night Manager stands tall as a stand-alone gem that elevates the cat-and-mouse game without ever entrapping itself. Bravo.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Rectify: Season 1
    Although its principal supporting players are first-rate, Rectify would be lost in transition without Young’s stellar work in the lead role. It’s a fearless, fully immersed, Emmy caliber performance tinged with sadness, searching, primitive pleasures and even a little comedy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief: Season 1
    This is an incredible film that never releases its hold on viewers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst: Season 1
    Intercut with brief, unobtrusive reenactments and accompanied by a dangerous-sounding music track, The Jinx very much looks like a masterwork of the true crime genre.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Night Of: Season 1
    This is HBO’s best “limited series” since Angels in America, which in 2004 won all of the major Emmy awards in its category.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Curious Case of Curt Flood
    The 90-minute HBO documentary, one of the very best in a long line of standouts, is in no way a pity party for Flood.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Chernobyl: Season 1
    Pleasant viewing it’s not. But in terms of capturing a time and place, the five-part miniseries succeeds on every level. ... HBO’s extraordinary retelling of what went down in Pripyat and the then Soviet Union at large is its own reward for now -- and a certain multiple trophy winner during next year’s awards season.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Roosevelts: An Intimate History: Season 1
    It’s a remarkable piece of filmmaking that fully rises to the occasion of its remarkable subjects. Television’s new season is upon us, but this is an achievement for all seasons.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Downton Abbey: Season 6
    Judging from the first eight hours, it truly will be grand. Downton Abbey looks for all the world as though it’s steaming steadily toward happy or at least contented endings for one and all.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Justified: Season 4
    It keeps going about its business, getting better than ever each season with a restrained but gripping approach that's also sure to wear well decades from now.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Honorable Woman: Season 1
    Whatever your viewing regimen, Honorable Woman is highly recommended for its distinctive approach, bravura performances, overall digestibility and, yes, degree of difficulty.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Deadwood: The Movie
    Deadwood’s trademark blend of literacy and crudity continues to harmoniously co-exist. ... Deadwood: The Movie ends with beautifully paired scenes featuring Bullock and Swearengen. Both are moving in their own distinctive ways, bringing one of HBO’s very best series to an end that does David Milch proud. Very proud indeed.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Nashville (2012): Season 1
    It has Emmy caliber performances from its two leads and an authenticity that won't quit.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Spoils of Babylon: Season 1
    These first two episodes are gut-busting, non-stop fun.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Show Me a Hero: Season 1
    Show Me a Hero hides its agenda in plain sight. It could stand to pick up the pace at times. But this journey to the promised land for some and tragedy for others is by and large expertly crafted and intrinsically important.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Vietnam War: Season 1
    In its scope and a mostly impeccable selection of images, quotes and anecdotes (Ho Chi Minh once worked as a New York city pastry chef), The Vietnam War boldly and bravely stands its ground and almost assuredly will stand the test of time. Its story is told in affectingly human terms by the mostly unheralded men and women who bled, died and survived.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Get Shorty: Season 2
    Get Shorty is superbly entertaining, both dramatically and comedically, and buoyed by performances that still lack official recognition from various trophy dispensers.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Homeland: Season 1
    It's compelling, enthralling and steeped in current realities.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Handmaid's Tale: Season 2
    Handmaid’s Tale had a tough act to follow, but its second coming soars on multiple levels. It’s intense, heartbreaking, full of resolve and perfectly paced.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    American Crime: Season 1
    It is an extraordinarily intelligent and compelling look at racial dynamics and polarities.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Game of Thrones: Season 5
    Epic in scope, basic in motivations, it will fill the next 10 Sundays with “appointment viewing” of the highest realm.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    American Horror Story: Season 4
    Freak Show looks like a beauty, with a wealth of fascinating characters and a little smattering of heart helping to balance out the grisly appointed rounds of a so far unidentified clown with a hellish half-mask.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Louie: Season 5
    Louie begins Season 5 in great and oftentimes phenomenal shape.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Prohibition
    In the end, it may be the most fun you'll ever have with a Ken Burns film.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Dust Bowl: Season 1
    The drought-stricken, spirit-sapping Great Plains of the 1930s get the lyrical and learned Burns treatment.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Bobby Fischer Against The World
    So far it's the televised documentary film of the year, with its truths stranger than fiction from opening move to checkmate.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Crown: Season 1
    It’s all quite enthralling and majestic.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Americans: Season 2
    Based on these first five episodes, The Americans shows every sign of maintaining if not exceeding the high bar it set in Season 1.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Olive Kitteridge: Season 1
    McDormand's portrayal of Olive Kitteridge is even more accomplished, in turns aggravating and affecting while always seeming just right. Jenkins is likewise superb.... This is a nuanced, slowly simmering look at bent and spindled lives molded by previous bent and spindled lives. The bright spots are there, but never glowing. Self-realization is the payoff.
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