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For 923 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 75% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 20% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.8 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 71
Highest review score:
Gossip Girl: Season 2
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
The Pauly D Project: Season 1
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 680 out of 680
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 680
  3. Negative: 0 out of 680
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  1. Prohibition: Season 1
    Talking heads such as Daniel Okrent are eloquently pithy. And narrator Peter Coyote is as soothing as a tumbler of fine Scotch.
  2. Mad Men: Season 5
    Mad Men offers a two-hour season premiere that commences with a muted tone and then explodes in different directions. [23 Mar 2012, p.62]
    Posted Mar 16, 2012
  3. Luck: Season 1
    I suspect Luck will need its own kind of good fortune to persuade HBO Subscribers to get on its wavelength--to go with the undulating rhythm of its storytelling. But it's worth the effort. [3/10 Feb 2012, p.104]
    Posted Jan 30, 2012
  4. Frozen Planet: Season 1
    The stunningly shot result will make you wonder at the cruel beauty of nature. [16 Mar 2012, p.67]
    Posted Mar 13, 2012
  5. Eastbound & Down: Season 3
    Danny McBride's Kenny Powers is back for a wild third season.
  6. Absolutely Fabulous (UK): Season 6
    Jennifer Saunders' Edina and Joanna Lumley's Patsy are as deliciously delusional as ever in the Britcom's 20th-anniversary special.
  7. Justified: Season 3
    The new Justified is so tightly plotted that it finds room for all these characters, as well as episodes shinning a spotlight on the series sterling supporting players. [27 Jan 2012, p.63]
    Posted Jan 20, 2012
  8. On Freddie Roach: Season 1
    This peter Berg-produced show is filmed in a low-key style that makes Roach's life seem all the more dramatic. [27 Jan 2012, p.68]
    Posted Jan 20, 2012
  9. Key & Peele: Season 1
    While the show is not yet as boundary-pushing as Chappelle's, it is funny, and that should never be taken for granted.
  10. Game Change: Season 1
    Jay Roach, who directed the Austin Powers films and won an Emmy for the HBO political drama Recount, knows from parody and keeps his actors from slipping into it.
  11. Episodes (US): Season 2
    [A] terrific second season of this industry-set sitcom. [17/24 Aug 2012, p.109]
    Posted Aug 15, 2012
  12. Homeland: Season 2
    It's the suspense these two leads endure--a suspense Homeland dramatizes in a swift, sure manner and then transfers to the viewer--that makes this show so unnervingly terrific.
  13. Hemingway and Gellhorn: Season 1
    Both writers come off as passionate egomaniacs with literary gifts so undeniable, you can't help but enjoy them.
  14. Nashville (2012): Season 1
    Rarely does a pilot present a world as completely as Nashville does in its first hour.
  15. Web Therapy: Season 2
    Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as online shrink Fiona Wallice, but her true talent is making those around her even funnier.
  16. Fringe: Season 5
    Fringe seems to be going out as alt-world fantasy/sci-fi at its most tough-minded yet humanistic. [5 Oct 2012, p.73]
    Posted Sep 28, 2012
  17. Sons of Anarchy: Season 5
    Paying close attention to SOA's array of outlaws makes the series an even more richly detailed portrait of self-righteous villainy.
  18. About Face: Supermodels Then and Now: Season 1
    About Face is raucous and lovely. [3 Aug 2012, p.69]
    Posted Jul 27, 2012
  19. Girls: Season 2
    As bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as it was in its first season, Girls may now be even spunkier, funnier, and riskier. [11 Jan 2013, p.80]
    Posted Jan 3, 2013
  20. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: Season 1
    You'll alternate between cooing at 6-year-old pageant queen Honey, gawking at her self-described "redneck" family and pet pig, laughing so hard you cry, and feeling deep shame for not turning it off.
  21. The Office: Season 9
    Here's a show that knows how to dive into its final season.
  22. Game of Thrones: Season 3
    The most compelling characters in season 3 are the gentleladies.
  23. Witness: Season 1
    It's grim but exhilarating: a portrait of an artist chronicling despair.
  24. The Dust Bowl: Season 1
    Ken Burns' documentary about the "black blizzards" that swept across the Great Plains during the 1930s is at once rigorously sourced and heartbreakingly emotional.
  25. Dallas (2012): Season 2
    The plots are twistier than a fishtail braid and only lag when the conversation turns to energy. [25 Jan/1 Feb 2013, p.112]
    Posted Jan 18, 2013
  26. In Vogue: The Editor's Eye: Season 1
    The film is a wonderful trip down the magazine's fabulosity-paved memory lane.
  27. The Americans: Season 1
    [An] absorbing spy thriller. [25 Jan/1 Feb 2013, p.113]
    Posted Jan 18, 2013
  28. Prosecuting Casey Anthony: Season 1
    Even though you come away with no new insight into the case, the fine performances by Lowe,Revolution's Elizabeth Mitchell (as another prosecutor), and The Office's Oscar Nuñez (as Anthony's lawyer) make this TV movie far more compelling than you'd expect.
  29. Hannibal: Season 1
    Hannibal takes our own fixation on psycho-pop and serves it back to us in a dish full of flavor. Bon appétit, horror freaks.
    • Metascore: 73
    • Critic Score 91
    Parade's End: Season 1
    You'll be pining for more once it's over. [1 Mar 2013, p.62]
    Posted Feb 22, 2013
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