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For 203 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 61
Highest review score:
Behind the Candelabra: Season 1
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Liz & Dick: Season 1
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 100 out of 100
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 100
  3. Negative: 0 out of 100
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  1. Enlightened: Season 2
    Contemporary TV is suddenly filled with shows starring charismatic yet ostentatiously flawed heroines: Homeland, The Mindy Project, Girls, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. Enlightened stands out because its vision is so much wider.
  2. Louie: Season 3
    Louie is the anti–Anger Management: bizarre, inventive, and bold.
  3. Bleak House: Season 1
    Splendid television.
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  4. Mad Men: Season 4
    Best of all, we seem to be done with the weakest element of the series, those abusive-hillbilly flashbacks. Instead, we've been left with a Madonna-whore set of blondes: all-embracing Anna and her icy counterpart, Betty of the Little White Nose in the Air.
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  5. Sherlock: Season 2
    Sherlock is a wonderful series. Just thinking about it makes me smile.
  6. Justified: Season 4
    For all its gore, gunfire, and criminal nastiness, it's a joyous show; even when the characters are scowling, the show seems to be grinning at you.
  7. Game of Thrones: Season 3
    The physicality of the visuals and the performances helps power Game of Thrones past any rough patches--not that there have been that many.
  8. Louis C.K.: Oh My God: Season 1
    Oh My God is animated by deep skepticism and an appreciation of joy, qualities that don’t normally mix in comedy and that might seem, in a different context, incompatible. But they aren’t incompatible--not here, anyway.
  9. Justified: Season 3
    Raylan Givens is off his game, but Justified is as sharp as ever.
  10. The Wire: Season 5
    In these last innings, as The Wire ties up its gnarled threads, it also makes its most daring departure yet, introducing yet another institution, and a brand-new cast of characters to disappoint us.
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  11. Everybody Hates Chris: Season 1
    The best of the new fall sitcoms.
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  12. Game of Thrones: Season 2
    Is Game of Thrones one of the great HBO series? It's too early to tell, though judged purely as an immense yet improbably graceful narrative machine, I'd have to say yes.
  13. Southland: Season 4
    It's the most engrossing cop series since season one of NBC's Homicide, and maybe the most raggedy and real.
  14. Mad Men: Season 6
    [A] clever, at times tricky season opener. In Lost-like style, it strategically withholds key information that would help us make immediate sense of Don’s behavior, which by turns suggests a prisoner, a sleepwalker, and a ghost.
  15. Girls: Season 1
    From the moment I saw the pilot of Girls, I was a goner, a convert.
  16. Top Of The Lake: Season 1
    A triumph of writing, directing, and acting.
  17. Pushing Daisies: Season 1
    Pushing Daisies will drive you crazy or make you smile.
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  18. Southland: Season 5
    For the most part, though, what we see and hear is all we’re allowed to know, and it’s enough, just as the accumulation of moments in a fly-on-the-wall documentary are enough to make us feel for the subjects.
  19. Deadwood: Season 3
    What makes Deadwood so fascinating is not the action we put up with; it’s the language we listen to.
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  20. Nashville (2012): Season 1
    It feels lived-in, confident. That's a good sign.
  21. Girls: Season 2
    It lets you simultaneously laugh at and with the characters, and feel justified for laughing, then ashamed, and then the pendulum swings back again; this is a much messier and more fascinating set of reactions than what sitcoms typically evoke.
  22. Downton Abbey: Season 3
    The melodrama is deliciously engrossing and occasionally wrenching--two episodes in the middle of season three may empty local Rite-Aids of Kleenex--but in the end, it's a light series: "light" as in the opposite of dark, not insubstantial; warm, hopeful, inspiring.
  23. NY Med: Season 1
    NY Med is filled with warm, honest moments--some poignant, others comic--and characters who would be plenty compelling even if they didn't keep revealing surprising new sides.
  24. The Dust Bowl: Season 1
    This series is Burns doing Guthrie, bringing a lifetime of experience and craft to bear on a story of people struggling through hard times. He's picking up a guitar and telling us a story--a great one.
  25. The Walking Dead: Season 3
    There's still a sense that The Walking Dead is shambling along too lackadaisically. Great pulp is propulsive, ruthless. But the show's embrace of "B"-movie values is a heartening sign.
  26. Reaper: Season 1
    Reaper is strictly for fans of movies like Superbad.
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  27. Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 7
    Curb Your Enthusiasm takes its own internal dare and does somehow manage to make us care about this world-class sufferer of impacted pettiness, with his endless bickering about the thermostat, the etiquette of blow jobs in cars, the horrors of vacuum-packed plastic.
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  28. Damages: Season 3
    By refueling with the Madoffs, the show’s writers have brought a titillating jolt to the show’s by-now-established riffling of silvery, half-concealed trauma flashbacks. Even if, in the end, it’s nothing more than highly lacquered candy, it’s tasty stuff.
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  29. Elizabeth I: Season 1
    [Mirren] delivers big-time... Congratulations should also go to Nigel Williams, whose screenplay for Elizabeth I is as sassy as Tom Stoppard’s was for Shakespeare in Love.
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  30. Boardwalk Empire: Season 2
    If there are rare moments in Boardwalk Empire that do pay off (the story of Jimmy's mother has some sick kick this season), it's hard to feel the stakes, beyond the catharsis of the show's bi-weekly throat slashings.
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