For 555 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 4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Verne Gay's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
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Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 58 out of 555
555 tv reviews
    • Metascore: 48
    • Verne Gay 30
    It's bland, tired, listless, and if the show isn't having much fun, how can it expect viewers to?
    • Metascore: 36
    • Verne Gay 30
    All this feels dutiful and rote - the CliffsNotes version.
    • Metascore: 64
    • Verne Gay 30
    A sweet, gentle, good-natured trifle that is (nonetheless) surprisingly airless and only rarely funny, if that.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Verne Gay 30
    This wanna-be's as dumb as dirt, and, as a consequence, even makes Hollywood seem more toxic than it probably is.
    • Metascore: 53
    • Verne Gay 30
    Call Girl is a dreary London day. A pass.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Verne Gay 30
    The pilot was so uneven that the whole affair nearly veers into "Reefer Madness" territory--the kind of over-the-top cautionary fable that subverts honorable intentions through hysteria or cliche. Despite its pedigree, Teenager doesn't appear to have ever stepped inside a high school, either.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Verne Gay 30
    There's no reason to pile on here, but this show needed many more months of gestation before getting thrown to the wolves.
    • Metascore: 45
    • Verne Gay 30
    Private Practice is hugely disappointing, and in so many ways that a mere review can't even begin to do all the problems injustice.
    • Metascore: 21
    • Verne Gay 25
    Knight Rider is a disaster, a remake so deliriously and delectably bad that you have to watch just to tell your grandchildren that you were there.
    • Metascore: 42
    • Verne Gay 25
    Sit Down is raw, vulgar and blithely offensive, with so many triple and quadruple entendres for so many sexual acts, I lost count.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Verne Gay 25
    Gary is a throwback to a time when laugh tracks were provided by evidently demented studio audiences; when one-liners were stoked with double entendres about sexual functions; when sitcoms had a beat, pace and predictability so primitive that they engaged only the reptilian part of our brains. To some viewers, this may be comfort food. To others: Hell.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Verne Gay 25
    As the woebegone divorcee with an antic streak and a full-blown need to get down, Cox is not believable.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Verne Gay 25
    We get some slightly bent soccer moms and dads debriefed by an impossibly cheery, cheesy, chummy game-show host. Showtime must have thought there would be great humor and irony in the mundane exchanges recorded here. But it miscalculated. Badly.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Verne Gay 25
    As awful as $#*! My Dad Says is, you almost detect an ember of promise here. Maybe it's Shatner--whom we will always love, no matter what--or maybe it's an illusion. But CBS needs to blow some life into that ember before it's too late. Maybe it already is.
    • Metascore: 75
    • Verne Gay 25
    It's lackadaisical, weary, bland and off-center.
    • Metascore: 47
    • Verne Gay 25
    The appealing cast valiantly tries to hack its way through the dense underbrush of jokes about frats and testicles and cannabis. But the harder they hack, the hackier it all becomes. Before long, the jungle has won. The show, and viewer, have lost.
    • Metascore: 66
    • Verne Gay 25
    Unfortunately, they've settled on far-too-easy and facile answers for the most part.
    • Metascore: 54
    • Verne Gay 25
    Leaden, dull, flat, tone deaf. Any reason to go on? Sure. This replaces another ex-"Friends" vehicle (Courteney Cox's "Cougar Town," which returns mid-April) that launched with both left feet, then dramatically improved. With all the on-screen talent here, this ex-"Friends" star could eventually shine, too.
    • Metascore: 57
    • Verne Gay 25
    Unadulterated rubbish, and exactly what fans expect. Bravo, Starz.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Verne Gay 25
    When you start doodling on the Internet instead of watching the show you are supposed to review, then either you, or the show, has a problem. I'm going with the latter.
    • Metascore: 51
    • Verne Gay 25
    What's missing here, besides laughs? Chemistry.
    • Metascore: 28
    • Verne Gay 25
    Yup, pretty awful.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Verne Gay 25
    Yeah, Brooklyn 11223 is awful, and awful not because it's inauthentic--it isn't necessarily to those being portrayed here--but because it's hugely phony.
    • Metascore: 65
    • Verne Gay 25
    it's a clanking, clattering collection of collagenous clinkers--of dialogue so inept, of acting performances so preposterous, of plot points so cliched that the only question worth posing is why someone of Weaver's stature would be caught anywhere near a turkey like this.
    • Metascore: 33
    • Verne Gay 25
    Grim, sad, painful.
    • Metascore: 35
    • Verne Gay 25
    Snooki & JWoww reeks of the end-times--the end-times for "Jersey Shore."
    • Metascore: 43
    • Verne Gay 25
    Dim, dumb, dull, daffy and dippy, Discovery should know better.
    • Metascore: 38
    • Verne Gay 25
    Part Dr. Jekyll, part Mr. Hyde and all dumb.
    • Metascore: 41
    • Verne Gay 25
    With Tools, there is no discernible style, or point of view, or voice, or humor that ever rises to the level of originality.
    • Metascore: 29
    • Verne Gay 20
    It is so ancient - in approach, tone, style and energy - that you can almost see the dust bunnies tumble across the set.