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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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    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Taboo: Season 1
    Three episodes deep, there’s an appetite for more, but not a ravenous one. Taboo could develop into a whale of a tale once Delaney is fully seen in his earlier element.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
    They thoroughly come alive in this instant classic about show biz addiction and rejection.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    One Day at a Time (2017): Season 1
    So far, muy bueno. Somewhat amazingly, this turns out to be a comedy whose time has come again.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Emerald City: Season 1
    Emerald City has its moment as a vicarious, danger-packed thrill ride replete with jolts, wonders and ample shivers amid its shimmers.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Beyond: Season 1
    A little too much patience is required at times, but the first four episodes do include a brief glimpse into a pretty cool looking netherworld during Holden’s chemical injections at the hands of Willa.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Ransom (2017): Season 1
    There are likely to be more to come on a network that only occasionally fails to keep its crime hours in play for multiple seasons. Ransom is easier to take than some of them, and with a hero who doesn’t have to brandish a gun to get the job done.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Mick: Season 1
    You may not laugh until it hurts, but there are some laughs to be had. Particularly for those who also swear by Family Guy.
    • 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
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Incorporated: Season 1
    Although its super-bleak future is nothing new, Incorporated does an above-average job of bringing it all home.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Good Behavior: Season 1
    Good Behavior so far is a work in progress with two leads who show considerable promise in terms of making it all work.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Crown: Season 1
    It’s all quite enthralling and majestic.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    People of Earth: Season 1
    People of Earth has built a small-town universe with just enough quirks and intrigue to keep its premise in play. It has both heart and a sense of the absurd, making it increasingly “accessible” with the proviso that you’re just not going to get a laugh riot.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Pure Genius: Season 1
    The cancer/pregnancy storyline unfortunately takes a rather predictable turn in terms of the woman’s hard-praying husband. But the dynamics between the willful Bell and his staff are well-played throughout.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Great Indoors: Season 1
    Jack technically is a Gen Xer. But he might as well be the Quaker Oats man in the eyes of millennials getting the same broad brush treatment. It’s a wonder they can even feed themselves in a comedy that force-feeds its concept and swallows McHale whole in the process.
    • 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.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Man With a Plan: Season 1
    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).
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Chance: Season 1
    So far it’s involving to a degree but never enthralling to the max.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Berlin Station: Season 1
    Berlin Station so far looks like a series worth riding out, with Jenkins, Armitage, Ifans and Forbes all making strong contributions to the cause.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Graves: Season 1
    Graves assuredly will turn off some viewers with its title character’s U-turns from previous conservative positions on military spending and illegal immigration. The series clearly has an “agenda,” but isn’t all that artful in putting it forth. Nolte’s performance is energetic without being particularly memorable.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Falling Water: Season 1
    What if nothing ends up coming together? Although there are some signs of that, Falling Water also can be maddeningly inexplicable and perhaps not worth a long-term investment. So far, my interest has ebbed and flowed.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    American Housewife: Season 1
    American Housewife so far is too busy taking offense to be much fun to watch.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Insecure: Season 1
    Some of Rae’s best moments during the six episodes made available or review are when her character squares off with herself in a mirror and rehearses what she should or shouldn’t say in big moments.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 91 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Divorce (2016): Season 1
    Its characters and situations are alternately aggravating, humorous and, to a lesser extent, poignant. Parker and Church are fully in charge throughout as a perfectly imperfect duo. Yes, they’re both that good--in a series that demands just that.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Frequency: Season 1
    Frequency does a pretty solid job of juggling its balls and creating new intrigues. By the end of the premiere episode, another perplexing murder mystery is in play while Raimy wonders what hit her.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    No Tomorrow: Season 1
    Anderson is quite good in the lead role, though, and Sasse nicely upholds his half of the equation. But No Tomorrow decidedly is not a step-up from either Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or Jane the Virgin.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Conviction (2016): Season 1
    Atwell’s performance is solid enough, particularly when Armstrong is around for badgering purposes. But the weekly skirmishes with “The System” end in ways that at best strain credulity.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Timeless (2016): Season 1
    From the network that brought you Quantum Leap, it’s NBC’s Timeless, which can be far-fetched even for a show of this genre. But it’s also agreeably fast-paced and a good deal of fun before jumping through another hoop at the end that might make the present an almost equally wild mini-ride.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    Westworld: Season 1
    Through these first four episodes, Westworld flexes its lavish production values and has the kernels of what could turn into an increasingly absorbing morality play.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    The Exorcist (2016): Season 1
    Friday’s curtain-raiser makes a better than expected first impression while at the same time putting Herrera’s hunky, soulful and appealing lead priest in play.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ed Bark
    MacGyver (2016): Season 1
    The resultant explosions look cheap and the cliche-pocked script keeps self-destructing--“We’re running out of time, Mac”--before the bad guys are neutralized. MacGyver deploys a few household items to make all of this happen, but not all that inventively or interestingly. Till’s acting remains a work in progress, if that.
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