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 9.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Glenn Garvin's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 54
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
381 tv reviews
    • Metascore: 26
    • Glenn Garvin 10
    Liz & Dick alternates between imbecile fatuity (particularly in its device of intercutting scenes of a black-clad Taylor and Burton musing on their relationship like characters who've wandered in from an East German experimental film) and stupefying literalness.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Glenn Garvin 10
    It’s an insidious whitewash of a convicted killer and an infamous smear of his victim. It’s a shame on all involved.... The closest thing to fairness in Phil Spector is the blow-you-away performance by Al Pacino in the title role.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    Give it credit for consistency: a bad concept, badly written for bad actors.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    An abysmally dumb plot peopled with some of the most irritating characters in the history of television.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    I'll give the show credit; it did make me think what I would ask if granted three wishes. Interestingly, all three involved the flesh of Amy Grant being devoured by rabid weasels.
    • Metascore: 26
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    You can practically feel the IQ points leaking out your ears as you watch.
    • Metascore: 24
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    Makes a solid bid to win the Most Unpleasant Reality Show of All Time award.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    Smutty at its best, downright creepy at its worst, this dreadful attempt to mock the coming-of-age genre could well be the first TV show to get an entire day of the week canceled.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    Oprah's Big Give is no mere appallingly bad television show but a refutation of human decency itself.
    • Metascore: 21
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    I'm paying a bounty of $5 per vicious blow administered to the heads of any NBC executive involved in any way with Knight Rider, which cost me an hour of my life and 50 IQ points that I'll never get back.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    Staleness, however, ranks as a virtue in Sit Down, Shut Up, for the show's token stabs at topicality are truly appalling.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    This truly hideous sitcom offers a postmodernist take on the 1960s comedy That Girl, in which Marlo Thomas starred as an aspiring actress afflicted with insufferable cuteness.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    With tediously unfunny scripts and a listless cast that looks as if it can barely wait for the director to shout "Cut!" so it can head en masse to the unemployment office, Last Man Standing is some kind of voracious video parasite that sucks out all intellect, sense of purpose or will to live.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Glenn Garvin 0
    Monstrously misconceived and incompetently executed, powered by a high-octane blend of arrogance and contempt, The Newsroom is an epochal failure, a program destined for television's all-time What Were They Thinking? list. Not since NASA's first Vanguard rocket blew up on its launch pad in 1957 will Americans have seen anything crash and burn on television with such hellish spectacularity.