Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Magazine (Vulture)
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For 134 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Matt Zoller Seitz's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score:
Louie: Season 3
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Liz & Dick: Season 1
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 134
  2. Mixed: 53 out of 134
  3. Negative: 14 out of 134
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    • Metascore: 70
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Oz: Season 1
    For the most part, Oz is an awesome achievement - an alternately crude and elegant attempt to expand the boundaries of the one-hour drama. If it can avoid an over reliance on prison movie clichs, stay focused on the redemption theme and give its powerhouse cast more room to breathe, it could be one of the most important works ever aired on American television. [12 July 1997, p.29]
    Posted May 15, 2013
    • Metascore: 73
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Episodes (US): Season 1
    LeBlanc is brilliant; the writing and direction are brilliant; the show is brilliant.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Archer: Season 2
    Archer is the next generation version of "Get Smart," with a similarly thickheaded, overconfident, horny hero whose petulant deadpan lines are funnier than they have any right to be.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Mildred Pierce: Season 1
    Mildred Pierce is a masterpiece.
    • Metascore: 88
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Game of Thrones: Season 2
    Is Game of Thrones one of the great HBO series? It's too early to tell, though judged purely as an immense yet improbably graceful narrative machine, I'd have to say yes.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Homeland: Season 1
    [Homeland] sounds as though it could have been pitched as "The Manchurian Candidate: The Series." But set that aside, if you can, and look at what's on-screen, because it'll reward your attention.
    • Metascore: 94
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Louie: Season 3
    Louie is the anti–Anger Management: bizarre, inventive, and bold.
    • Metascore: 86
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Top Of The Lake: Season 1
    A triumph of writing, directing, and acting.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 100
    Behind the Candelabra: Season 1
    There’s a solid, patient, confident quality to this movie that’s rarely seen in modern mainstream cinema. It’s better than most American films playing in theaters, and better than most of HBO’s films, too.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    Sons of Anarchy: Season 4
    It believes in the story it's telling and expects everyone watching the series not just to have a good time, but to commit. If every drama series had a tenth as much passion, TV would be a far more interesting place.
    • Metascore: 91
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    Sherlock: Season 2
    Sherlock is a wonderful series. Just thinking about it makes me smile.
    • Metascore: 78
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    Boss: Season 1
    Even at its worst, Boss radiates intelligence and toughness, and an appreciation of politics as a nonstop performance in an unscripted drama.
    • Metascore: 84
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    Girls: Season 2
    It lets you simultaneously laugh at and with the characters, and feel justified for laughing, then ashamed, and then the pendulum swings back again; this is a much messier and more fascinating set of reactions than what sitcoms typically evoke.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    Game of Thrones: Season 3
    The physicality of the visuals and the performances helps power Game of Thrones past any rough patches--not that there have been that many.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    The Dust Bowl: Season 1
    This series is Burns doing Guthrie, bringing a lifetime of experience and craft to bear on a story of people struggling through hard times. He's picking up a guitar and telling us a story--a great one.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    Justified: Season 4
    For all its gore, gunfire, and criminal nastiness, it's a joyous show; even when the characters are scowling, the show seems to be grinning at you.
    • Metascore: 90
    • Matt Zoller Seitz 90
    Louis C.K.: Oh My God: Season 1
    Oh My God is animated by deep skepticism and an appreciation of joy, qualities that don’t normally mix in comedy and that might seem, in a different context, incompatible. But they aren’t incompatible--not here, anyway.

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