For 381 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Glenn Garvin's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
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Score distribution:
381 tv reviews
    • Metascore: 50
    • Glenn Garvin 80
    Much edgier in confronting issues of class and ethnicity. But it never loses its sense of humor. [19 Sept 2002]
    • Metascore: 60
    • Glenn Garvin 80
    Cutler’s documentary The World According to Dick Cheney is a rousing piece of work.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Glenn Garvin 80
    Durst’s books all offer the same engaging elements that the BBC makes such excellent use of in this two-part miniseries: The claustrophobic lifeboat atmosphere of a society teetering toward its doom.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    It's a provocative mishmash of future shock and peculiar anachronisms. [19 Sept 2002, p.E1]
    • Metascore: 49
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    With a gorgeous cast (even -- especially? -- the dead ones), plenty of cool slow-mo martial arts action, a glorious collection of lethal hardware and an intriguing plot, Blade's got something for the whole family, provided they rank somewhere between the Munsters and the Mansons in sensibility.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    The scenes of the guys driving golf balls onto the roofs of Hollywood mansions or scamming stereo dealers are funny and even sweet in a post-adolescent Porky's sort of way. [18 July 2004, p.5M]
    • Metascore: 51
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Highly entertaining.
    • Metascore: 37
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Lowlife though it may be, Twins is just plain funny.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    The cynical and cerebral Threshold is the darkest of the three new space-alien shows, so much so that the producers seem to be wondering if the human race is even worth saving.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Elfman establishes herself as one of the major female comic presences on television.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    This sitcom is a loving embrace of convulsive domestic eccentricity.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Where The Sopranos slices and dices American culture from a thousand different angles and The Brotherhood explores the shadowy nexus between crime and politics, The Black Donnellys sticks mainly to the vices, virtues and vicissitudes of family.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Just think of all the stolen ideas as a public works program for Hollywood lawyers and stick to the action on-screen, which is quite entertaining.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    As a reality show, Miracle Workers is unique: It is neither Machiavellian like Survivor, nor messianic, like Three Wishes, nor grotesque, like Fear Factor. It's as serious as life and death.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Poignantly funny.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    At times Smith seems less like a crime drama than a character study of a collection of seriously damaged people. But the show's metabolism is enjoyably unpredictable.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    You've seen it all before, but Berg's sharp powers of observation and a talented and very pretty young cast... keep it fresh.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    With enough intrigue for a spy thriller and enough careening car chases to satisfy the most deranged Fast and Furious cultists, it's an action series that engages your brain as well as your clutch foot.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    This is an intriguing blend of The Fugitive and The O.C.: half suspense and half intergenerational melodrama.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    A soapy delight of hard bodies and dirty doings.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Surreal and then some.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    It's different, it's droll, it's quirky, it's funny.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Six Degrees starts off almost as an anthology series, with six stories set in six different worlds, each one quite interesting. But as their orbits draw closer, interest rapidly morphs into fascination.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Its raffish ethnic and class humor takes no prisoners.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    If you're willing to invest some time and brain cells, The Nine is an absorbing experience.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Delirious, dizzy, decadent and altogether delicious.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    Funny and intriguing.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    The relatively no-name cast (which includes Craig Bierko as a recently dumped financial planner, Rashida Jones as a divorce lawyer better at managing breakups than relationships, and Johnny Sneed as a three-time-loser party boy) is excellent, and the goofball writing hilarious.... But this is buyer-beware territory, with something to offend practically everybody whose age or IQ exceeds 16.
    • Metascore: 68
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    No fictional conceit can possibly match the darkness of the Manson family. But Durham County, a series about a cop's growing realization that his bland suburban neighborhood may house a serial killer, is genuinely creepy.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Glenn Garvin 70
    With so many different directors and writers involved, it's always hard to judge where anthology series may be going. But the first two episodes of Fear Itself are good, goosebumpy fun, with the deft set-ups, rousing action and surprise endings of a comic book.