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For 29 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 82% higher than the average critic
  • 10% same as the average critic
  • 8% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 16 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jessica Shaw's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 77
Highest review score:
The Good Wife: Season 2
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Against The Wall: Season 1
Critic Score 42
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
29 tv reviews
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    • Metascore: 89
    • Jessica Shaw 100
    The Good Wife: Season 2
    It's getting difficult to keep coming up with superlatives for this sophomore-season drama, especially with a thrilling and tantalizing episode like tonight's.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Jessica Shaw 91
    Nikita: Season 1
    Based on Luc Besson's 1999 film La Femme Nikita (and mercifully, less cheesy than the 1997-2001 Peta Wilson TV Series), this promising adaptation follows the same premise. [10 Sep 2010, p.83]
    • Metascore: 77
    • Jessica Shaw 91
    Great Migrations: Season 1
    There's not a nature-show junkie out there who won't be wowed by the stunning footage in this seven-hour miniseries about migratory animals. [5 Nov 2010, p.66]
    Posted Dec 10, 2010
    • Metascore: 73
    • Jessica Shaw 91
    The Glee Project: Season 1
    Joyful and insidery, the competition wholeheartedly embraces the freaks and geeks who made Glee a phenom to begin with.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Jessica Shaw 91
    Absolutely Fabulous (UK): Season 6
    Jennifer Saunders' Edina and Joanna Lumley's Patsy are as deliciously delusional as ever in the Britcom's 20th-anniversary special.
    • Metascore: 43
    • Jessica Shaw 83
    Hart of Dixie: Season 1
    This show, which reunites the undeniably charming Bilson with The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz, is a goodie that mixes heartstring-tugging moments with lines like this: "There it is. Rock bottom. I just played 'Dixie' with my butt."
    • Metascore: 66
    • Jessica Shaw 83
    Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton: Season 1
    Host Graham Norton is a pro, able to score laughs from both elephant farts and the KKK in under 30 minutes.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Jessica Shaw 83
    Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis: Season 1
    You'll be intrigued by the 85-year-old showman, his legion of devotees, and the fact that he still tells rabbi-and-priest jokes.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Jessica Shaw 83
    Drew Peterson: Untouchable: Season 1
    Lowe is (surprisingly) perfect as Chicago cop Drew Peterson, who's suspected of murdering his third and fourth wives. [20 Jan 2012, p.71]
    Posted Jan 23, 2012
    • Metascore: 64
    • Jessica Shaw 83
    United Stats of America: Season 1
    Twin comics Randy and Jason Sklar make statistics as entertaining as possible.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Jessica Shaw 75
    Better With You: Season 1
    Some of the wait for it...It's a punchline! moments feel very last-century compared with fresher Cougar Town and 30 Rock, but the likable cast shows promise.
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    • Metascore: 75
    • Jessica Shaw 75
    Gossip Girl: Season 4
    The twist about Chuck's (Ed Westwick) cliff-hanger shooting is tres promising, but we're sick of S and B's frenemy fights du jour. Maybe Katie Cassidy's enigmatic Juliet can bring some glory back to Girl.
    Posted Dec 10, 2010
    • Metascore: 62
    • Jessica Shaw 75
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Season 1
    You'd think Beverly Hills would be the ideal setting for a new Housewives. But something about the camera-ready personal trainers, fresh blowouts, and requisite forehead-filler scene makes you miss the real-ness of a NeNe, Caroline, or Ramona.
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    • Metascore: 48
    • Jessica Shaw 75
    Love in the Wild: Season 1
    There is absolutely nothing remotely fresh about this dating show, which is essentially the unholy spawn of Bachelor Pad, Temptation Island, Survivor, and The Amazing Race. Does it matter? Hell no! Especially when there are contestants with names like Steele, raft challenges on crocodile-infested Costa Rican waters, and a reward love shack called the Oasis. [1 Jul 2011, p.68]
    • Metascore: 56
    • Jessica Shaw 67
    The Whole Truth: Season 1
    It's nice to see Tierney back on TV, but I secretly hope this Shakespeare-quoting crab of a lawyer is just a filler job until another Parenthood-esque gig comes along.
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    • Metascore: 63
    • Jessica Shaw 67
    Scouted: Season 1
    Essentially, it's a whole season of "America's Next Top Model" rolled up into each episode. Too bad the mentors and judges are hideously unlikable.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Jessica Shaw 67
    Around the World in 80 Plates: Season 1
    [An] unoriginal but tasty-enough culinary/travel competition.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Jessica Shaw 58
    Unforgettable: Season 1
    The intense stares at nothing in particular, uncanny case-solving ability, and haunting past where a loved one was killed are unapologetically lifted from well-worn pages in the TV-procedural playbook. The overall effect is just not that memorable.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Jessica Shaw 42
    Against The Wall: Season 1
    Is it too much to ask the self-proclaimed Television for Women network to create a strong female cop lead? Instead we get Abby Kowalski (The Glades' Rachael Carpani, who deserves better than this), an oh-so-cutely klutzy (oops--she walked into a pile of cans at the market!) internal-affairs detective who, even at age 30, is disturbingly trying to impress her cop daddy (Treat Williams).
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