Troy Patterson, Slate
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For 204 reviews, this critic has graded:
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33% higher than the average critic
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0% same as the average critic
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67% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.3 points lower than other critics.
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Troy Patterson's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 204
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Mixed: 93 out of 204
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Negative: 43 out of 204
204
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Troy Patterson 60
Watching these post-Lost sci-fi-mytho-mystery series, you also watch yourself watching, and the thrill of alertness passes for decent entertainment even when other pleasures are in short supply. When Sean returned from a day trip to find that his girlfriend had vanished as if redacted from the file of life, I was kind of glad to see her gone. With her murky disappearance out of the way, we were on our way to achieving clarity-or at least toward failing to achieve it. -
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Troy Patterson 60
The Fairy Jobmother, adapted from a British show of the same name, follows the model of Supernanny--that child-rearing-rehab spectacular--with a diligent slavishness.- Posted Dec 10, 2010
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Troy Patterson 60
Judged by the standards of the form, it is totally OK. There is a soothing mundanity to it, and voyeurs will come away gratified. Though this is hardly an intimate portrait.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Troy Patterson 60
Storage Wars--trivial and magnetic, sociologically peculiar and elementally creepy-gives the reality-show treatment to a class of merchants slinking beneath the radar of many a solvent citizen.- Posted Dec 23, 2010
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Troy Patterson 60
On average, the viewer must wait through two tossed-off fart jokes in order to savor one lovingly crafted one. Bob's Burgers is done medium well.- Posted Mar 30, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
Indeed, it is hard to knock Terra Nova overall, such does it succeed on its own terms, which involve working over the pituitary brain and the sympathetic soul.- Posted Sep 26, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
Preferring to redomesticize Mildred Pierce, Haynes arrives at a film--a five-part, five-hour miniseries--that is merely pretty good.- Posted Mar 25, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
It plays, for better and worse, like a slightly elevated version of one of those issue-of-the-week telefilms of the old school, with their teen traumas and kitchen-sink melodramas.- Posted Apr 22, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
The Voice (NBC) is a horrifically entertaining vocal competition produced by Mark Burnett.- Posted Apr 29, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
It is a show about a high-school superheroine--a Catwoman without the camp or the S&M gear--and it enables longtime fans of the subgenre to watch with pride as their children digest its venerable tropes for only the fourth or fifth time.- Posted Jul 8, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
Too Big To Fail adapted by director Curtis Hanson and screenwriter Peter Gould from a book by journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, is a decent movie with a stellar title.- Posted May 24, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
The very special scheduling is one of several ways the network has been signaling that it means serious business with this light and passably witty supernatural drama.- Posted Jun 3, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
Alphas proceeds with a relative sobriety that will prove attractive to some and simply unintoxicating to others. If there are any grown-up fanboys left in America--people who can bring themselves to admit that this summer's blockbusters-in-tights are meager gruel--then Alphas may have enough beta charm to see them through the season.- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
Not content to exploit their subject's inherent themes, the series' fraternal creators, Joe and Tony Gayton, have adhered them promiscuously, pasting neon Post-it indications of symbolic import in a way that obscures moments of straightforward drama.- Posted Nov 3, 2011
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Troy Patterson 60
The show, warm and cheesy, fits right in as another nacho plate on the network's menu of comfort food, another new sitcom that plays like a re-enactment of an old one.- Posted Jun 20, 2012
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Troy Patterson 60
When the show talks about crime literature, it's quite dull, but when it shows instead of tells, it's something to see.- Posted Jan 21, 2013
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Troy Patterson 50
Diggs has considerable magnetism, but it would take the charisma of a cult leader to disguise the fact that this show sometimes reads like a '70s conspiracy thriller as interpreted by the makers of Bad Boys II. -
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Troy Patterson 50
In a time span shorter than a T.G.I. Friday's commercial, we saw a pungent contrast between two sets of cultural values. This was all very funny and more than a bit embarrassing. -
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Troy Patterson 50
"Six Feet Under's" Peter Krause plays the role with a sense of detachment that represents either the artistic choice of an actor playing it straight amid interminable clowning or the weary resignation of a dude who didn't know what he was getting into. -
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Troy Patterson 50
The show rises to mediocrity on the strength of the occasional snappiness of the dialogue. -
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Troy Patterson 50
It plays like it's been built for antisocial boys--mchair heroes in love with guns and in search of demented adventure. -
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Troy Patterson 50
Eleventh Hour is ambitiously shameless in patterning its counterintuitive crank of an ill-socialized hero on the Hugh Laurie character. We sent it down after nine minutes as yet another generic detective drama. -
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Troy Patterson 50
The show's success may depend on whether the public's fascination with Slater trumps its collective attention-deficit disorders. -
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Troy Patterson 50
Indeed, if the show is to have the symbolic import that we expect from a science-fiction story, this is the only possible way to read V as a coherent text. The only problem with this analysis lies in its generous presupposition that the text is, in fact, coherent. -
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Troy Patterson 50
With the drama so thin, it must be the richness of Alicia's situation that makes 13 million people a week want to enjoy her company. -
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Troy Patterson 50
Naturally, Happy Town is excessively sudsy in its soap-opera aspect, just as its atmosphere is a bit too atmospheric. -
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Troy Patterson 50
Once you get past the fact of the producers' milking more than the usual volume of pathos from scenes of pre-elimination anxiety and post-dismissal distress, More To Love is much the same as its slimmer sisters. -
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Troy Patterson 50
Better Off Ted, which feels more devoted to establishing its cool than earning some laughs, is hardly so bad to deserve a bleh from halfway-discerning viewers. Eh or meh would be closer to the mark. -
