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: 49
    • Ed Bark 50
    Although its title is needlessly sub-juvenile, Oh Sit! does manage to be stupidly entertaining during its small handful of best moments.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Ed Bark 50
    For now, it's a disappointing polemic that mainly offends by being lazily or awkwardly executed more often than not.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Ed Bark 50
    Hotel Hell is every bit as watchable--in a morbidly fascinating way--as his other Fox crock pots.
    • 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: 62
    • Ed Bark 50
    666 Park Avenue doesn't entirely lack a pulse, but doesn't get the blood rushing either.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Ed Bark 50
    Unfortunately, Bomb Girls is affixed with an oft-overwrought and at times just plain clunky script.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Ed Bark 50
    AnnaSophia Robb is appealing enough in the title role, but Monday's first episode starts to sag from all the CW-ian title character narration and overall pop tune heaviness.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Ed Bark 50
    It's much more a bare-bones recitation, with some interesting sidelights in the telling.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Ed Bark 50
    The NBC series deteriorates from a graphic but promising first episode to a third hour that basically falls apart from any rational credibility standpoint.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Ed Bark 50
    The Bible has the misfortune of looking cheap in comparison to the visual feast provided by the preceding Vikings. And the acting isn't nearly strong enough to overcome this.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Ed Bark 42
    What's supposed to be a taut and many-splendored mythical yarn in league with Heroes instead registers as a topsy turvy laughable feast complete with chapter titles.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Ed Bark 42
    Decidedly dreary for openers, Mr. Sunshine succeeds in making Cougar Town look like a lion of the prime-time jungle. That's obviously not the intent. But Perry, Janney and company will have to brighten matters in a hurry to avoid a very quick sunset.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Ed Bark 42
    The deadpan deliveries of its principal characters can be very moderately amusing at times. But in the end, you probably won't want fries with this one.
    • 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: 55
    • Ed Bark 42
    Secret Circle, replete with The CW's usual heavy doses of sappy pop music mood-ruiners, eventually gets around to outlining its basic plot point.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Ed Bark 42
    This is, however, one of those shows that a viewer easily can love to hate. And in that context, Love in the Wild is very well equipped to both go the distance and even be invited back next summer.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Ed Bark 42
    Thorne's performance occasionally threatens to rise above this mess. But it's tough to overcome a narrative opening line that goes like this: "My dad used to say life is like a football game. There's winners and there's losers."
    • 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: 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: 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.
    • Metascore: 56
    • Ed Bark 42
    Viewers in a sense are going to another carnival freak show.
    • 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: 30
    • Ed Bark 42
    The Choice already is bad enough but has a few amusing moments to help keep it afloat.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Ed Bark 42
    Nothing really jells here.
    • 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: 48
    • Ed Bark 42
    Kirk just doesn't click in the lead role. Nor do most of the words he's given.
    • 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: 53
    • Ed Bark 42
    In the end, it's all very disposable.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Ed Bark 42
    Mob Doctor is one of those classically bad concepts that somehow got green-lighted as a series.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Ed Bark 42
    It's a thoroughly ordinary series on what's increasingly an inconsequential night in the not-so-grand broadcast network scheme of things.