Ed Bark, Uncle Barky
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For 274 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 35% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Ed Bark's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 64
Highest review score:
The Hour (UK): Season 1
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Brand X With Russell Brand: Season 1
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 151 out of 274
  2. Mixed: 99 out of 274
  3. Negative: 24 out of 274
274 tv reviews
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    • Metascore: 48
    • Ed Bark 58
    Red Widow: Season 1
    Red Widow isn't as compelling as Last Resort was in its early episodes. But it's appreciably better than those other two. Still, consumer confidence in Red Widow's staying power should be rightfully suspect at best. And in Sunday's second half, the premise already shows some signs of unraveling on the road to potential ridiculosity.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Ed Bark 58
    Spartacus: War of the Damned: Season 1
    War of the Damned doesn't spare any of it en route to its no doubt hellish conclusion. But the characters aren't as compelling as they once were, rendering the fight scenes even more voyeuristic.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Ed Bark 58
    Deception: Season 1
    Some of this is diverting or at least laughable enough to play along.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Ed Bark 58
    Defiance: Season 1
    The ripping good special effects of Syfy’s Defiance harken to Fox’s recently failed and likewise futuristic Terra Nova, which also popped the eyes. In each case, the bigger your DVD screen, the better. Another shared trait: the scripts and story lines tend to be cliche-heavy and sense-dulling predictable.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Ed Bark 58
    Cult: Season 1
    It somehow manages to be more inviting than ABC's new and thoroughly preposterous Zero Hour, although both series could be the stuff of sadistic semester-ending writing essays.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Ed Bark 58
    Parade's End: Season 1
    Although affecting at times, Parade's End tends to congeal rather than gel.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Ed Bark 58
    Hemlock Grove: Season 1
    Hemlock Grove overall falls well short of anything resembling sustained brilliance. Still, each episode may well push just enough buttons to pull you along to the next one.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Ed Bark 58
    How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life): Season 1
    How to Live is decently performed in light of the oft over-reaching material at hand.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Ed Bark 58
    Da Vinci's Demons: Season 1
    Da Vinci’s Demons halfway succeeds on the strength of its vigorous, devil-may-care approach, even if it’s also almost thoroughly preposterous in terms of the central character’s deductive powers and abilities.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Ed Bark 50
    Shameless (US): Season 1
    Shameless instead is about as uplifting as rectal cancer, even though it's hard not to at least respect the gumption and resilience of Fiona. Rossum's performance in this role is all together pretty terrific.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Ed Bark 50
    Breakout Kings: Season 1
    There's nothing particularly striking or compelling here. But at least the escapee of the week will meet his fate at the end of each episode.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Ed Bark 50
    Shedding for the Wedding: Season 1
    Shedding otherwise is groaningly familiar in every way with its mix of taskmaster trainers, supportive yet firm host and heavyweights who are in it to win it.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Ed Bark 50
    The Paul Reiser Show: Season 1
    The older you are, the more you might respond to the oft-clunky, middle-aged craziness of The Paul Reiser Show.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Ed Bark 50
    The Playboy Club: Season 1
    Subtract its clunky dialogue, ludicrous plot devices and empowerment nonsense, and you're left with its heightened sense of pulchritude.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Ed Bark 50
    Alphas: Season 1
    Alphas looks fairly good on paper, but never catches fire. And its use of Strathairn is even more of a fizzle.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Ed Bark 50
    The Protector: Season 1
    Campbell-Martin very ably acquits herself while Walker runs a little low on overall oomph. Together they're less than dynamite, but capable of a few sparks.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Ed Bark 50
    Pan Am: Season 1
    Beyond selling the glamour of it all, Pan Am may be very hard-pressed to come up with weekly storylines that impel viewers to climb aboard.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Ed Bark 50
    2 Broke Girls: Season 1
    I liked this first episode better the first time around. Upon further review, its excesses and kitchen sink humor aren't wearing as well.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Ed Bark 50
    Up All Night: Season 1
    A cute little closing segment isn't enough to offset all the forced comedy preceding it.
    • Metascore: 31
    • Ed Bark 50
    H8R: Season 1
    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.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Ed Bark 50
    Man Up!: Season 1
    The whole enterprise seems way too wobbly to walk upright under its own power.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Ed Bark 50
    Allen Gregory: Season 1
    Maybe the content also will rise to the level of the art deco-ish visuals. But the opening episode has an overall creepy feel to it, paced of course by a seven-year-old's carnal longings for his gruff sexagenerian principal.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Ed Bark 50
    Who's Still Standing?: Season 1
    The game itself gets bogged down with a succession of gratingly easy questions that turn Round 1 into a rather boring marathon.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Ed Bark 50
    Rob: Season 1
    There are lots of swings and misses amid the direct hits. And that's pretty much the way it is with Rob.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Ed Bark 50
    NYC 22: Season 1
    In short, nothing really jumps off the screen here.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Ed Bark 50
    Breaking In: Season 2
    There are signs of improvement, though, even if Mullally tends to over-do it in the "brash and bold" department while holdover Christian Slater remains in place as the downgraded former head dude known only as Oz.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Ed Bark 50
    Missing (2012): Season 1
    Missing's clue unraveling is barely believable when it's not simply preposterous.
    • Metascore: 55
    • Ed Bark 50
    Fashion Star: Season 1
    This possibly could work, and isn't entirely unwatchable.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Ed Bark 50
    Perception: Season 1
    McCormack, in designer stubble, is no better than ordinary in the lead role. Nor are the cases at hand all that compelling.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Ed Bark 50
    41: Season 1
    So hard-hitting it's not.
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