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For 922 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. Breaking Bad: Season 5
    The arc of this character--series creator Vince Gilligan's invention of Walter White as a sick soul--is, it's clear now. one of the great narratives in Television histpory. [13 Jul 2012, p.62]
    Posted Jul 16, 2012
  2. The Wire: Season 4
    The best series on TV, period. [15 Sep 2006, p.63]
  3. 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.
  4. Breaking Bad: Season 4
    Giancarlo Esposito's Gus will prove once again that he is the most shockingly unknowable of villains. Yes, Breaking Bad is back, and bent on upending every expectation you bring to it.
  5. The Sopranos: Season 6
    The more leisurely pace allows for some singular moments. [17 Mar 2006, p.101]
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  6. Enlightened: Season 2
    Laura Dern and Mike White continue their bold, hilarious, tremendously moving exploration of Amy Jellicoe's ongoing attempt to give meaning to her life. [18 Jan 2013, p.74]
    Posted Jan 11, 2013
  7. Battlestar Galactica (2003): Season 3
    Any show that can accommodate decadent cruelty, tragic bravery, and political divisiveness is one you ought to be watching, frakkin' spaceships or not.
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  8. Louie: Season 3
    C.K. is writing, directing, and starring up a storm here, and his usual opening-segment stand-up routine, involving nearsightedness, is funnier than most sitcoms are in an entire season.
  9. Bleak House: Season 1
    Dark, textured, and lively--this is how Dickens is done. [20 Jan 2006, p.66]
  10. Mad Men: Season 4
    I can assert that the series has benefited artistically from the business decision that concluded last season. In shuttering Sterling Cooper and launching SCDP, the show is immediately jazzed by the renewed energy and willfulness that often accompanies a start-up.
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  11. Homeland: Season 1
    It's the fall season's most intriguing, tense puzzler.
  12. Justified: Season 2
    Most TV series feel the need to up the ante in their second season, to prove the first one wasn't a fluke. Justified proceeds with such assurance, however, that it can maintain a cool, witty serenity that only enhances its tough-guy drama.
  13. Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 5
    It's a testament to Curb's cleverness that what's now rote--Larry offends, we cringe--can still be so surprising.
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  14. Sherlock: Season 2
    The new season pops with all the visual energy of the first. [4 May 2012, p.67]
    Posted Apr 27, 2012
  15. Justified: Season 4
    The fourth season of Justified gives us exactly what we want: much laconic tough-guy humor from Timothy Olyphant's U.S. marshal Raylan Givens, much grandiloquent nastiness from Walton Goggins' drug dealer Boyd Crowder, and much swift violence.
  16. Game of Thrones: Season 3
    The most compelling characters in season 3 are the gentleladies.
  17. Louis C.K.: Oh My God: Season 1
    It is possible to argue that, although Louis C.K. has created a work of genius with the FX show Louie, what he's really good at is stand-up. Oh My God offers further evidence for the thesis.
  18. 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
  19. The Thick of It (UK): Season 1
    This sly Britcom is like a C-SPAN spin-off of... The Office. [12 May 2006, p.75]
  20. 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
  21. Breaking Bad: Season 3
    Breaking Bad has, in short, everything you could want from an hour-long show: suspense, laughs, danger, and poignance.
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  22. Eastbound & Down: Season 2
    This portrait of a profane, low-down egomaniac--excuse me, he prefers "Christ figure"--continues to amaze. McBride's willingness to play depression, amorality, and selfishness for laughs is awesome.
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  23. 24: Season 5
    [The first episodes are] four of 24's best hours to date. [20 Jan 2006, p.59]
  24. The Good Wife: Season 2
    It's getting difficult to keep coming up with superlatives for this sophomore-season drama, especially with a thrilling and tantalizing episode like tonight's.
  25. The Wire: Season 5
    The fifth and final season of David Simon's peerlessly acted, stunningly scripted, revolutionary drama of 1,000 moving parts kicks off Jan. 6.
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  26. Boardwalk Empire: Season 1
    What Buscemi brings to this production is his great gift for channeling neurotic self-consciousness into a man of action. He may fret about retaining his empire, but you believe Nucky Thompson is a lord of venality, right down to his immaculate spats.
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  27. Game of Thrones: Season 2
    It's another level of pop culture wizardry to make such storytelling seem so vivid, so vital, and just plain fun.
  28. 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
  29. Archer: Season 2
    Congrats to Bob's Burgers star H. Jon Benjamin, who is now voicing the lead on two of TV's funniest shows. [28 Jan 2011, p.68]
    Posted Feb 3, 2011
    • Metascore: 88
    • Critic Score 100
    Community: Season 2
    The yuk-filled second ep of the sophomore season rectifies this neglect with a plot that tempts Jeff to return to his soul-corrupting old firm, much to the dismay of his community-college study buddies.
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