For 734 reviews, this publication has graded:
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3% same as the average critic
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53% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.4 points lower than other critics.
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Average TV Show review score: 57
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Positive: 334 out of 334
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Matthew Gilbert 100
The show is back in magnificent form, with all its humor, psychological thorniness, and bleak tragedy intact. It remains the highest peak of series TV. -
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Joanna Weiss 100
This is a show about religion, politics, parent-child relationships, and the moral dilemmas of insurgency. Consider it a workplace drama where the business is armed resistance. -
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Matthew Gilbert 100
The NBC series certainly has been one of TV’s most emotionally honest and stirring works, and it remains so as it enters its fourth season. -
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Matthew Gilbert 100
It's hard to know where to aim the praise first. -
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Matthew Gilbert 100
Gabriel Byrne is in every minute of the show, delivering one of TV's most faceted and intriguing performances....All of the new characters promise to engage as their stories and backstories begin to unfold.- Posted Oct 25, 2010
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Matthew Gilbert 100
It offers a great cast, and some very tight, tart scripting. Each of the season's seven half-hours is a little sliver of pleasure.- Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 100
This extraordinary upstairs-downstairs drama, written by Oscar-winning "Gosford Park" screenwriter Julian Fellowes, is a dramatic, intelligent, soapy, comic, and wise piece of work, one that explores social shifts on the eve of World War I while delivering a remarkably engaging cast of characters.- Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 100
Ultimately, though, even with the fantasy, Game of Thrones feels like a historical medieval saga. It's a royal, and royally good, round of musical chairs.- Posted Apr 14, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 100
A taut exercise in withheld disaster, Breaking Bad is riveting.- Posted Jul 14, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 100
Of all the drama pilots I watched, this was my favorite.- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Sarah Rodman 100
The creeping sense of dread has been part of what has made Breaking Bad so engrossing.- Posted Jul 12, 2012
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Matthew Gilbert 100
The show doesn't seem to have lost any ballast moving forward from the intensity of season one.- Posted Sep 27, 2012
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Matthew Gilbert 100
This is a great piece of TV work... Right from its opening minutes, after a flight to Australia has crashed on the shores of nowhere, ABC's Lost simulates the kind of dread we don't expect to find on the small screen. [22 Sept 2004, p.E1]Posted Feb 16, 2013 -
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It's a riveting indication of what Lynch can do without words. Simple shots of traffic lights and waterfalls are enough to send chills up the spine.- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Matthew Gilbert 100
The show beautifully depicts a massive game of musical chairs, a world at war with doom ever present just across the border.- Posted Mar 28, 2013
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Matthew Gilbert 100
AMC’s Mad Men returns for season 6 with two hours that are as rich and as deftly literary as anything in the history of the show. The premiere operates like a series of exquisitely written theatrical set pieces, one after another that add up to a moving, ironic, and often comic group portrait.- Posted Apr 4, 2013
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The best new network dramatic series since "Shannon's Deal" and "Twin Peaks" in 1990. [29 Jan 1993, p.21]Posted May 12, 2013 -
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Matthew Gilbert 91
I love the suburban satire, which is old territory made fresh again. [Jane] Levy, from "Shameless," is tart and sympathetic, and [Cheryl] Hines is a revelation as a rabidly superficial mom.- Posted Sep 12, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 91
The script is tight and ambitious, as it attempts to anatomize corruption in the big city.- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 91
Dern is fantastic as Amy--you cringe as her histrionics drive people away, and cringe again as she tries to suppress her feelings behind a veneer of New Age peacefulness.- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 91
I don't know if it will catch on - westerns can be a hard sell - but it's another fine AMC choice.- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Matthew Gilbert 90
The NBC sitcom is so unpretentious and original, it will probably win you over on its own sweet merits. -
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Matthew Gilbert 90
'Extras" is far less terminally existential than ''The Office," less depressing to watch. -
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Matthew Gilbert 90
From the brilliant performance by Michael C. Hall to the dryly witty scripting, Dexter secures a position near the top of another year's best list. -
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Matthew Gilbert 90
This knockout adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play is a model of both the pure power of stage acting and TV’s potential to bring us up close to that acting without deadening it. -
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Matthew Gilbert 90
Mad Men returns for season 2 in excellent form: There's a rich and active subtext in this series, you just have to discover it. -
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Matthew Gilbert 90
This season as much as last, In Treatment brings us into more intimacy with its characters than almost any other series on TV. -
