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For 37 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 72% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 The Pitt: Season 2
Lowest review score: 40 Chad Powers: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
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  1. The Beauty: Season 1
    For a while, watching the highlights are worth sitting through the lowlights. How many other shows can have an Emmy winner (Peters, so great on Mare of Easttown) casually deliver a line like, "an assistant editor at Vogue combusted in the Condé Nast cafeteria today"? But even in the early going, Murphy, Hodgson, and company struggle to find a narrative focus, and they let the story completely unravel by the end.
  2. Black Rabbit
    This is a promising, if familiar, dynamic for Black Rabbit, created by King Richard screenwriter Zach Baylin, along with Kate Susman. But it rarely plays out in a compelling fashion, because neither brother comes across quite like the show wants them to.
  3. Best Medicine: Season 1
    Will it win awards and wind up on critics' top 10 lists come December? No. Will you see every line and plot development coming well before they happen? Yes. Will you nonetheless feel a soft spot for it, particularly if you have preexisting affection for this specific kind of small town dramedy? Quite possibly.
  4. Man on Fire (2026): Season 1
    Mateen is excellent casting for this, as he is for pretty much everything he's done lately. There are isolated moments where you understand why someone might want to build a new version of this title around him. But some stories — many stories, it turns out, based on the number of similarly sluggish streaming dramas of the past decade — aren't meant to fill this many hours of filmed entertainment.
  5. Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
    This kind of story needs a heroine who's both charming enough to carry the action, and believable as someone whom no one expects to be good at detective work. Fortunately, McKenna-Bruce is slyly funny and cool in the lead role.
  6. Chad Powers: Season 1
    Chad Powers ultimately can't decide if it wants to stay in the uplifting Ted Lasso lane or be a much broader — and at times meaner — comedy than the one it likely wouldn't exist without.
  7. Shoresy: Season 5
    If Shoresy isn't the most improbable character in TV history to get a spinoff at all — much less an excellent one — then he's very high on the list. He was barely a character at all on Letterkenny. But that relative blank slate, plus the fact that he was being played by the guy doing much of the writing, in hindsight made him the ideal choice. Keeso could have done anything with him. Improbably, he made him the center of a show that's equally ridiculous and heartfelt, and that seems to have eclipsed the popularity of the prior series.
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