Verne Gay, Newsday
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For 569 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Verne Gay's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score:
The Alzheimer's Project: Season 1
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
The Wedding Bells: Season 1
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 357 out of 569
  2. Mixed: 154 out of 569
  3. Negative: 58 out of 569
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    • Metascore: 63
    • Verne Gay 83
    Dexter: Season 6
    A not-bad start that promises to take Dex (and Dexter) in a slightly new and fresh direction.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Verne Gay 83
    Wilfred: Season 1
    Fair warning, dear reader: Wilfred is intensely vulgar, and only guys around the age of 28 whose ears, and sensibilities, are covered with scar tissue will find nothing offensive. Otherwise, it's very funny.
    • Metascore: 61
    • Verne Gay 83
    Entourage: Season 8
    Entourage is clarifying a moral message--drugs will kill you, terrible behavior is terrible, and real friends are forever. It feels like a reassuring final season.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Verne Gay 83
    Once Upon a Time: Season 1
    What's best about Time is its ambition; it glows with a near-theatrical shine, challenging viewers to think about TV drama as something other than boilerplate.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Verne Gay 83
    Person of Interest: Season 1
    A gritty, almost plausible winner, and distant reflection of Stephen Spielberg's "Minority Report."
    • Metascore: 66
    • Verne Gay 83
    2 Broke Girls: Season 1
    The well-written pilot has a couple of brazenly vulgar sight gags, but nothing that will shock "Two and a Half Men" fans.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Verne Gay 83
    Cougar Town: Season 3
    Cox remains a very engaging lead, and her supporting cast is rock solid.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Verne Gay 83
    Hell on Wheels: Season 1
    Solid cast, intriguing premise, and--best of all--the Old West. Should easily be another winner for AMC.
    • Metascore: 63
    • Verne Gay 83
    Alcatraz: Season 1
    It was a dark and stormy night--and a weird, fun, trippy one, too.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Verne Gay 83
    Archer: Season 3
    Good start to the third season, and from what I sampled, it builds from there.
    • Metascore: 81
    • Verne Gay 83
    The Borgias: Season 2
    Still very high quality, and still a tiny bit dull.
    • Metascore: 71
    • Verne Gay 83
    Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23: Season 1
    Raunchy and at times genuinely funny, Apartment 23 is jam-packed with promise--and inconsistencies.
    • Metascore: 72
    • Verne Gay 83
    The Borgias: Season 3
    The intrigue continues and The Borgias remains one of TV's more reliable potboilers.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Verne Gay 83
    Episodes (US): Season 2
    Still fun, but the innocent first moments last season were better.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Verne Gay 83
    Saving Hope: Season 1
    A sober, intelligent, placidly paced drama as only the Canadians can make.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Verne Gay 83
    Dallas (2012): Season 1
    More of a continuation than a "remake," this one looks to be a winner.
    • Metascore: 79
    • Verne Gay 83
    Damages: Season 5
    Some wild twists, but you've seen a variation before on one of them. Nevertheless, the Patty Hewes story is almost over, and in Close's hands, it's still compulsively watchable.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Verne Gay 83
    Go On: Season 1
    The cast is good, even excellent. But Perry's the one who sells Go On.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Verne Gay 83
    Major Crimes: Season 1
    A sharply written, acted and directed start that will hook fans immediately.
    • Metascore: 62
    • Verne Gay 83
    666 Park Avenue: Season 1
    [A] stylish Gothic thriller that almost gives away a little too much Sunday. Otherwise, thumbs up.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Verne Gay 83
    Ben & Kate: Season 1
    Brush aside the hyperactivity and hard sell, and you're left with a winner.
    • Metascore: 49
    • Verne Gay 83
    Chicago Fire: Season 1
    Chicago Fire definitely has familiarity going for it and familiarity going against it as well.
    • Metascore: 83
    • Verne Gay 83
    Downton Abbey: Season 3
    Fans will be pleased, though they shouldn't be too surprised by the major plot development Sunday--it's obvious by half.
    • Metascore: 60
    • Verne Gay 83
    Touch: Season 2
    You have plain old smashmouth elemental TV story devices--good guys, bad guys, evil corporations, a family unit, and a headlong rush toward the Truth, whatever that may be. Plus this special bonus: Intimations of Jack Bauer.
    • Metascore: 59
    • Verne Gay 83
    Mockingbird Lane: Season 1
    Outrageous, eccentric, funny, campy--and too creepy for small kids.
    • Metascore: 67
    • Verne Gay 83
    Ethel: Season 1
    A loving portrait of a lady--but who probably would be just as happy not to have this or any portrait at all.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Verne Gay 83
    The Girl: Season 1
    Film lovers will--possibly against their better judgment--love Jones' Hitch.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Verne Gay 83
    Mankind: The Story of All of Us: Season 1
    It aims for epic, and sometimes hits epic--but it's a bit shallow.
    • Metascore: 80
    • Verne Gay 83
    Mel Brooks Strikes Back!: Season 1
    For Mel Brooks lovers everywhere (you know who you are), but it's on the light side.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Verne Gay 83
    Prosecuting Casey Anthony: Season 1
    A surprisingly revisionist take on one of the most controversial trials of the decade.
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