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:
Critic Score 100
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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 24 out of 274
274 tv reviews
    • Metascore: 42
    • Ed Bark 42
    Mob Doctor is one of those classically bad concepts that somehow got green-lighted as a series.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Ed Bark 25
    This latest aliens-meet-earthlings sitcom is just too dopily executed for any long-term stay on this planet.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Ed Bark 42
    Outlandish and thoroughly TV Land-ish, Malibu Country belongs on the network of Hot In Cleveland, Happily Divorced and other broad, blast-from-the-past sitcoms.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Ed Bark 25
    It’s a grindingly bad half-hour with some even worse finishing touches.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Ed Bark 50
    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: 39
    • Ed Bark 16
    Roseanne's Nuts is her way of taking a dump in your living room.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Ed Bark 16
    Preposterous, ridiculously earnest, poorly scripted and laughably acted, this is the series that Anthony Edwards chose to re-enter prime-time after a long tenure as one of ER's main men. He should've stayed in bed.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Ed Bark 50
    The older you are, the more you might respond to the oft-clunky, middle-aged craziness of The Paul Reiser Show.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Ed Bark 42
    It's simply not coherent enough to sustain weekly interest.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Ed Bark 25
    A decidedly bland and tedious weekly series in which couples attempt to mend their frayed relationships by doing it for a full week.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Ed Bark 42
    Guys with Kids is over-populated, under-funny and no match for the simple charms of Three Men and a Baby, the surprise mega-hit of 1987.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Ed Bark 67
    Urie's mostly a hoot, with his inflections infectious and his comedy timing a thing of beauty. Krumholtz offers sturdy enough support, but his co-star does most of the heavy lifting.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Ed Bark 42
    You might not want to have a TV relationship with these guys either. They're just not much fun on any level.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Ed Bark 42
    Hits & Mrs. has the usual redundant reality filler and various contrivances.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Ed Bark 50
    The whole enterprise seems way too wobbly to walk upright under its own power.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Ed Bark 42
    The bedeviled moms can be bawdy fun on occasion in this broad Fox sitcom. But their unctuous, obnoxious 14-year-olds basically ruin every scene they're in.
    • Metascore: 36
    • Ed Bark 25
    Everything in Chelsea seems painfully forced.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Ed Bark 0
    The star of this ill-conceived show, which also features former congressional policy advisor Matt Stoller as a very uncomfy foil, completely fails to get untracked from halting start to grinding finish.
    • Metascore: 34
    • Ed Bark 50
    Beauty and the Beast won't hurt all that much to watch, but the dialogue and plot stretches can add up to a lot of little ows.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Ed Bark 16
    Life's A Tripp in reality is nothing more than another Lifetime stumble.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Ed Bark 42
    Allen's mere presence may keep it in business for a while. But it already seems as though it belongs on TV Land, where Home Improvement repeats already reside.
    • Metascore: 31
    • Ed Bark 50
    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: 30
    • Ed Bark 42
    Laughable? Yeah. Pathetic? Even more so. Degrading? That, too. Entertaining for consulting adult viewers who pay extra for such premium cable fare? Possibly.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Ed Bark 42
    The Choice already is bad enough but has a few amusing moments to help keep it afloat.
    • Metascore: 30
    • Ed Bark 25
    It leads off the network's Thursday prime-time schedule, with the action originating in Miami and the scripts apparently bought from Godawful, Inc.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Ed Bark 50
    There are lots of swings and misses amid the direct hits. And that's pretty much the way it is with Rob.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Ed Bark 25
    Is it all a hoot to watch? Definitely, but probably not intentionally so.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Ed Bark 16
    Those looking for depth will find none. Liz & Dick triumphs, however, as an amusement park for fans of the deeply dreadful.
    • Metascore: 19
    • Ed Bark 42
    Koldyke isn't lacking in effort or enthusiasm when it comes to getting all dressed up. That's not nearly enough to hold this thing together, though.