For 167 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 71% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 28% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Mike Duffy's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score:
Lowest review score:
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 95 out of 167
  2. Negative: 20 out of 167
167 tv reviews
    • Metascore: 64
    • Mike Duffy 75
    Although it's not quite as much smart, trashy fun as "Rome," it is still an engaging romp that moves along at a stylish pace.
    • Metascore: 69
    • Mike Duffy 75
    It makes a smart, charmingly irreverent first impression, thanks to its pleasantly warped, deadpan writing and performing.
    • Metascore: 58
    • Mike Duffy 75
    The snap, crackle and pop of witty dialogue well delivered. That is the consistently amusing, escapist pleasure of Back to You.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Mike Duffy 75
    High School Musical 2 is pretty much a total tuneful blast.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Mike Duffy 75
    Thanks to sleek production values, a generally top-notch cast and an absorbing overall story that smartly mixes explosive action with quieter moments of sinister intrigue, The Company delivers a refreshingly solid jolt of summertime Big Event drama.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Mike Duffy 60
    The opening episode is solidly done and pretty entertaining. But a fifth season of "Everwood" would have been a much better fit in the time slot following "7th Heaven."
    • Metascore: 51
    • Mike Duffy 60
    A sly, witty step up from the boorish "Becker."
    • Metascore: 51
    • Mike Duffy 60
    "Wedding Wars" tries to do a lot, with moderate success.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Mike Duffy 50
    You'll never regret missing Navy NCIS if you forget to watch. [23 Sept 2003, p.1F]
    • Metascore: 67
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Two and a Half Men manages to generate some smiles. Series creator Chuck Lorre ("Dharma & Greg") has scrounged up a few funny moments for the series premiere. But not enough of them. [22 Sept 2003, p.6E]
    • Metascore: 51
    • Mike Duffy 50
    In between the sardonic wisecracks and tangled storytelling, it's easy to lose interest.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Maybe they all graduated from the Melrose Place College of Law.
    • Metascore: 23
    • Mike Duffy 50
    "Modern Men" feels anything but, well, modern. But in its own goofy, good-natured retro way, this old-school comedy... generates some lighthearted, if predictable grins.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Mike Duffy 50
    [A] bland, formulaic family comedy.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Mike Duffy 50
    A gimmicky, cliched legal drama that seems to have been unearthed from 20 years ago.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Doesn't quite rise to the cheerful, sweetly clever quality level of WB's "Beauty and the Geek."
    • Metascore: 39
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Lame storytelling and dialogue.
    • Metascore: 40
    • Mike Duffy 50
    There's nothing remotely fresh or original about "3 Lbs." But it is well made, reasonably diverting and lucky to be on CBS.
    • Metascore: 32
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Even with its erratic start, "Inconceivable" still manages to deliver a fair share of escapist, bun-in-the-oven fun.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Mike Duffy 50
    A breezy summertime soap opera.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Mike Duffy 50
    With its attractive cast and the Emmy Award-winning talent behind-the-scenes... "Related" should be a lot more fizzy, witty fun than it is.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Mike Duffy 50
    So MacLachlan's enjoyable. The supporting cast is OK. And the unconventional premise is rather promising. Now it's up to the producers to give "In Justice" a more distinctive dramatic zing.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Breezily prefabricated sitcom humor that lacks the fresh zing of anything remotely original.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Mike Duffy 50
    [It has] just enough funny, semi-improvised moments to make you wish it was better.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Shepherd scores in a so-so docudrama.
    • Metascore: 44
    • Mike Duffy 50
    "Run's House" seems to be the reality sitcom flip side of "Being Bobby Brown."
    • Metascore: 55
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Even with Blackthorne's occasionally engaging portrayal of Harry Dresden, this whodunit lacks the wit and imagination that might transform it into something special.
    • Metascore: 52
    • Mike Duffy 50
    "Saved" is a sometimes entertaining, often predictable trauma drama.
    • Metascore: 39
    • Mike Duffy 50
    The Old Testament just shouldn't be this dull.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Mike Duffy 50
    Slick, predictably convoluted and pumped up on conspiratorial dread, "Day Break" may be a trifle late to the serial thriller party.