New York Magazine (Vulture)'s Scores

For 202 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 2.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 61
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 99 out of 99
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 99
  3. Negative: 0 out of 99
99 tv reviews
  1. Louie is the anti–Anger Management: bizarre, inventive, and bold.
  2. Splendid television.
  3. Sherlock is a wonderful series. Just thinking about it makes me smile.
  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.
  5. The physicality of the visuals and the performances helps power Game of Thrones past any rough patches--not that there have been that many.
  6. 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.
  7. The best of the new fall sitcoms.
  8. 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.
  9. From the moment I saw the pilot of Girls, I was a goner, a convert.
  10. A triumph of writing, directing, and acting.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Episodes is great--the sharpest sitcom debut this year. Among other excellent qualities, it's actively funny, with none of the dramedy lumpiness that spoils other half-hour offerings (bad camp, faux-energy badinage, heavy-handed sentimentality).