David Hinckley, New York Daily News
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For 875 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Hinckley's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score:
The Company: Season 1
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
The Cougar: Season 1
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 342 out of 875
  2. Mixed: 409 out of 875
  3. Negative: 124 out of 875
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    • Metascore: 67
    • David Hinckley 80
    Longmire: Season 1
    It's nicely crafted with a slower pace than the average police "procedural," but more than enough character intrigue to compensate.
    • Metascore: 57
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Newsroom: Season 1
    In between the romantic dramas, a lot of sharply written comedy and some long passages of news-wonk stuff, it aims to make viewers do a little thinking.
    • Metascore: 84
    • David Hinckley 80
    Nashville (2012): Season 1
    Nashville plays as a smartly written and well-appointed soap.
    • Metascore: 94
    • David Hinckley 80
    Louie: Season 3
    It's a show about someone trying to figure out life, one little thing at a time, and realizing that sometimes, hey, you can't.
    • Metascore: 65
    • David Hinckley 80
    Political Animals: Season 1
    The dialogue can be crisp, sharp and witty, particularly among colleagues in both the White House and at the Globe.
    • Metascore: 44
    • David Hinckley 80
    Anger Management: Season 1
    It's a big cast where every piece fits, and at least upfront, the writing and jokes are good enough that Anger Management only uses sex gags where they work, not to cover up any lack of other ideas.
    • Metascore: 72
    • David Hinckley 80
    Sons of Anarchy: Season 5
    Kurt Sutter's epic tale of an outlaw California motorcycle club launches its fifth season Tuesday with the same visceral intensity that stamped season four.
    • Metascore: 80
    • David Hinckley 80
    Wallander: Season 3
    In many ways, Branagh's Wallander slides seamlessly into a long line of screen detectives who think more loudly than they talk.
    • Metascore: 66
    • David Hinckley 80
    Go On: Season 1
    Maybe the best new sitcom of the fall is one of the first.
    • Metascore: 81
    • David Hinckley 80
    Dexter: Season 7
    Some Dexter fans have thought the show meandered around for the last couple of seasons as if it were waiting for something to happen. Now it has.
    • Metascore: 75
    • David Hinckley 80
    Strike Back: Season 2
    Lots of location shots give Strike Back an unusually acute sense of realism, and the show wisely spends more time with the boys in the field than with the command unit back home.
    • Metascore: 64
    • David Hinckley 80
    Major Crimes: Season 1
    This handoff is clean.
    • Metascore: 66
    • David Hinckley 80
    Copper : Season 1
    A half-dozen plots routinely swirl around Copper, banging into each other. Levinson and the cast never let them unravel.
    • Metascore: 76
    • David Hinckley 80
    Boardwalk Empire: Season 3
    Life is annoying Nucky Thompson as Boardwalk Empire starts its third season, and that gives this first-rate show just the push-off it needs.
    • Metascore: 60
    • David Hinckley 80
    Bomb Girls: Season 1
    Bomb Girls isn't a fancy show. It's just a whole bunch of good stories.
    • Metascore: 82
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Walking Dead: Season 3
    Just the beginning scene, which lasts almost six minutes before anyone says a word, will plunge everyone right back into a world where there may be no way out.
    • Metascore: 90
    • David Hinckley 80
    Game of Thrones: Season 3
    No one in Westeros is going soft, and there is no shortage of intrigue and sly drama that doubtless foreshadows death, destruction and plentiful violence to come.
    • Metascore: 66
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Girl: Season 1
    Superb performances by Toby Jones as Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as Hedren keep the story alive and moving.
    • Metascore: 61
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Men Who Built America: Season 1
    For outlining the way Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford literally shaped the America in which we still live, this special stands as tall as Rockefeller Center.
    • Metascore: 61
    • David Hinckley 80
    Wedding Band: Season 1
    The jokes flow nicely, the music is fun, and the pop culture references will make almost everyone smile.
    • Metascore: 80
    • David Hinckley 80
    Firefly: Browncoats Unite: Season 1
    You don't have to know a thing about "Firefly" to enjoy this fascinating victory dance.
    • Metascore: 83
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Dust Bowl: Season 1
    The Dust Bowl sounds like a dry subject, no cheap pun intended, and Burns works hard to humanize it by talking with some of the now-elderly people who made it through.
    • Metascore: 79
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Hour (UK): Season 2
    As with "Mad Men," we all recognize the workplace dynamic here. And as in "Mad Men," it's satisfying to see it dramatized in such a fresh and knowing way.
    • Metascore: 74
    • David Hinckley 80
    Restless: Season 1
    As the plot simmers and thickens, Restless keeps its focus on the core story, avoiding the temptation to become a war epic. This serves viewers well. Call it December's best-bet sleeper.
    • Metascore: 80
    • David Hinckley 80
    Mel Brooks Strikes Back!: Season 1
    Brooks makes it fresh, and not just because he comments on clips from "Blazing Saddles" or "Your Show of Shows," the seminal TV show he worked on with Sid Caesar in the early 1950s.
    • Metascore: 80
    • David Hinckley 80
    Archer: Season 4
    For viewers, most of the jokes still click.
    • Metascore: 77
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Americans: Season 1
    It's a premise that requires as much clever dramatic footwork as you might expect, and creator Joe Weisberg, a former CIA agent, handles the challenge.
    • Metascore: 62
    • David Hinckley 80
    The Following: Season 1
    If you can make it through Monday's first episode of Fox's much-anticipated new suspense drama 'The Following,' you have some intense, but high-quality, television ahead.
    • Metascore: 73
    • David Hinckley 80
    Parade's End: Season 1
    HBO’S new miniseries Parade’s End won’t stop the “Downton Abbey” DTs. But it can soothe the pain with wonderful visuals and superb performances by Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens.
    • Metascore: 86
    • David Hinckley 80
    Top Of The Lake: Season 1
    Top of the Lake doesn’t fully get rolling for a while. Happily, Moss doesn’t let us become disinterested.
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