New York Post's Scores
- Movies
- TV
For 660 reviews, this publication has graded:
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65% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points higher than other critics.
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Average TV Show review score: 66
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Linda Stasi 63
See, despite the fact that Lights Out has every one of these boxing cliches in spades, it also has that thing that makes all great boxing flicks memorable: great acting and characters you pull for despite the fact that you know you're being manipulated.- Posted Jan 11, 2011
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Linda Stasi 63
The silly, very romantic movie pretends to tell the whole truth about the meeting, mating, splitting and reconnecting of Kate and William.- Posted Apr 18, 2011
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Linda Stasi 63
The show is a string of one-liners occasionally punctuated by women in underwear (one even strips on the stand in court). The lines, if taken by themselves, are pretty funny. But, in the context of what this show is attempting to do, it's not as funny as it could be.- Posted May 31, 2011
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Michael Starr 63
Combat Hospital has the look, feel and pacing of an old "M*A*S*H" episode--minus the humor and preachiness--and the soapy elements of fellow ABC hospital drama "Grey's Anatomy" (a smarmy British doctor, nervous newbies and the no-nonsense unit chief--with the heart of gold, of course). But these aren't necessarily drawbacks. This is an episodic TV drama, after all.- Posted Jun 20, 2011
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Linda Stasi 63
Alphas is fun, sure, but it has a "been there, done that" feel.- Posted Jul 11, 2011
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Linda Stasi 63
The makeover has helped morph the series from unwatchable and unfunny into a witty sitcom about people who are desperate not to turn into TV sitcom parents.- Posted Sep 13, 2011
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Linda Stasi 63
Somebody should kiss a frog or something to break the evil spell and let this show be as much fun as it should be.- Posted Oct 21, 2011
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Linda Stasi 63
If you're a fan of "Russian Dolls," you may enjoy taking a walk on the not-wild side with these all-American Muslims.- Posted Nov 10, 2011
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Linda Stasi 63
Some of this show is funny, but you may want to put paper down on your couch to keep you from catching an STD.- Posted Feb 2, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
It seems to have been boiled down to its simplest ingredients.- Posted Feb 6, 2012
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Michael Starr 63
It's mentally exhausting, at least in tonight's opener, to figure out exactly what the heck is going on here, and in which reality we're placed at any given moment.- Posted Mar 1, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
While the show can be quite interesting and even compelling--you will hear some very smart women say some very smart things--there is something very wrong here. de Cadenet confesses to being married at 16...she was 19.- Posted Apr 27, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
This isn't ground-breaking TV, but if you're looking for a few good laughs and a lot of action without the commitment of marriage, Common Law the way to go.- Posted May 11, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
The show is so slow-moving that you may find yourself fighting vainly the old ennui.- Posted Jun 1, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
[Final Witness is] a very good true-crime show. But that voice-from-beyond narrator is just so very wrong.- Posted Jun 26, 2012
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Michael Starr 63
The ["quirky-genius" cop] genre is getting a bit moldy around the edges--and Perception doesn't add much to the tired mix.- Posted Jul 5, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
Not that this family of five adult sons, along with matriarch, Tina, and patriarch, Bobby Sr., aren't fascinating. They are. I just don't know if I want to live with them and all their unnecessary drama.- Posted Jul 17, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
Hotel Hell is as much fun as the others [shows], even if the formula has been used so many times, you're ready for a new dish.- Posted Aug 13, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
The scenes are always gritty and often very violent, which makes great TV. However, the dialogue? Whew. I mean, seriously? "She is waiting for you with breath bated!"- Posted Aug 16, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
Chiklis chews scenery--in a good, very good way--and Quaid is terrific, but both deserve far better than what they're given here.- Posted Sep 24, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
The supporting cast, Kate's British co-worker at the bar, BJ ("Do you know what BJ means in my country?") played by Lucy Punch, and Ben's best friend Tommy (Echo Kellum), are the glue that holds this bro and sister together. Or at least this show together.- Posted Sep 25, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
It remains to be seen if Underemployed will have time to spread its dramatic wings and shake off its ham-fisted preachiness--but it's off to a promising, if predictable, start.- Posted Oct 15, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
Gummer's a good actress in a mediocre sitcom; one that skirts the line between grown-up series and one that will appeal to The CW's young-girl demographic.- Posted Oct 16, 2012
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Linda Stasi 63
If you want exploitation, The Houstons: On Our Own sinks to a new level when the whole family-including elderly matriarch Cissy Houston-visits Whitney's grave site for the first time.- Posted Oct 24, 2012
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Michael Starr 63
It’s just that we’ve seen most of this before, and despite its creative pedigree and a solid cast--fronted by the always reliable Ving Rhames and Alfred Molina--there’s not enough to set Monday Mornings apart from “ER,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice,” et al.- Posted Feb 4, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
Life Is But A Dream is a vanity project that could have been a helluva film--if she had given up control and let the story tell itself.- Posted Feb 15, 2013
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Critic Score 63
If the crimes that drive "Law & Order" have the cops who solve them and the lawyers who prosecute them shaking their heads, the sex crimes dealt with by Special Victims will have the cops - and viewers - holding onto their stomachs.- Posted Feb 22, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
If yet one more cop show about the brash young rookie and the older, tired guy thisclose to retirement is enough to make you go completely insane and start watching, say, “Smash” or something equally upsetting, then for sure you want to stay away from Golden Boy. However, if you love cop shows that aren’t really procedurals so much as stories about the internal politicking of the NYPD, than maybe Golden Boy is just what you’re looking for.- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
If you will miss Spartacus when it ends--and you like your history with a big dose of campy fun--this one’s for you, Shield Maiden.- Posted Mar 1, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
Much of this is tediously drawn out, with crazy fly-overs between Biblical Chapters that may make you think it’s “Survivor: Holy Lands,” which, of course, it is.... Things really pick up when Jesus shows up.- Posted Mar 4, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
It ain’t Hitchcock, but it ain’t bad. Too bad it ain’t new.- Posted Mar 18, 2013
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Michael Starr 63
Barr is suitably creepy as Chris and McCormack--while slightly miscast--turns in a solid performance. For true-crime buffs only.- Posted Mar 25, 2013
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Adam Buckman 63
Sheen is so entertaining to watch that the series at least earns a 2 1/2-star rating. It also earns one on the basis of its name, which invites the irresistible parallel.- Posted Apr 2, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
The thing that does give this show its grounding is the acting. Dancy is a perfect, tortured soul; Fishburne is everyman with a brain; and Mads Mikkelsen is perfectly named. What is lacking, though, is any respite from the darkness.- Posted Apr 3, 2013
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Critic Score 63
We won't be able to avoid the realization that "Sex" as we knew it was a lot more fun than it is as Darren Star, who persists in seeing all New York as "Central Park West," knows it. [5 June 1998, p.113]Posted Apr 9, 2013 -
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Linda Stasi 63
Suspend disbelief and you’ll have fun, but believe and you’re in trouble.- Posted Apr 10, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
This new series [is] often very good and just as often very dull.- Posted Apr 18, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
While Swank and Blethyn make everything they’re in more remarkable for their presence, the movie plays more like a based-on-fact Lifetime flick than an HBO work of fiction.- Posted Apr 22, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
When Vinny is one-on-one with his guests, as he says at the opening, he isn’t Jay Leno. But he is pretty funny.- Posted Apr 29, 2013
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Linda Stasi 63
Despite being loving and sweet, the documentary feels four decades too late and a million dollars short if Cher was really serious about why she made this movie--to help Holt achieve her life-long dream of a singing career.- Posted May 6, 2013
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Linda Stasi 50
While the cast is quite good, and they even manage to rip a laugh or two out of the material, it's not enough to sustain a whole show. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The premise is fun, but if this is CBS' attempt at "Lost," then they are, if not totally lost, certainly in need of a map. And a new writer. Some of the dialogue is laugh-out-loud bad. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The plot is clever and there's a nice twist at the end, but the actors haven't found a rhythm, nor have they developed any chemistry. -
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Linda Stasi 50
These pros deserve better than bad jokes and swinging doors. -
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Linda Stasi 50
What's missing here are the big laughs, despite Rock's clever narration. -
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Adam Buckman 50
This guy has a great personality. Building a likable sitcom around him ought to be a no-brainer. So why haven't they done it? -
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Adam Buckman 50
The Rev is a lot like the rest of us. He matured and became dull. -
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Linda Stasi 50
This would be hilarious, except that political talk TV has become such a parody of itself that watching them is more than enough comedy for anybody. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The person who steals every scene is Brett Butler as the sister-in-law. -
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Adam Buckman 50
Not that it's not a nice show, but it is precisely the kind of production for which the word "corny" was probably coined. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Since the show stars all these great TV actors... the show sustains some laughs that it wouldn't otherwise be able to wring out of bad material. -
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Adam Buckman 50
It is overlong, contrived and utterly out of place on UPN. It plays like something left over that the network needs to discard before going out of business. -
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Adam Buckman 50
Portions of "Free Ride" show promise, due mainly to the show's star -- Dean -- whose character remains grounded and sane, against all odds. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Interesting take on the biblical story, but if you prefer your Moses as a nicer guy, may I suggest you skip tonight and tomorrow night's new epic and wait for the real Moses, Charlton Heston -
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Linda Stasi 50
It's a good thing reality TV has nothing to do with real life. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The format is so complicated and the contestants so unappealing that the show misses the mark. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The writing is so bad that, I promise, you will sit there mouth agape. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Both soaps are perfectly awful on almost every level, which makes them nothing, if not, well, hilariously perfect soap scum. -
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Adam Buckman 50
There's a nice idea in there somewhere. Now, if CBS and the show's producers can get together on changing most of it, they might have something. -
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Adam Buckman 50
"My Boys" is no improv comedy, but it also relies on unnecessary narration. -
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Linda Stasi 50
This is not to say that vapid and ruthless can't work on TV (think "Nip/Tuck"). But vapid and ruthless has to be redeemed by ridiculous and funny. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The series has great potential, and frankly I can't tell you why it doesn't ever quite reach it - other than it somehow lacks, er, magic. -
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Linda Stasi 50
While "Studio 60" is/was an annoying, insidery and smug series about the inside doings of the annoyingly smug cast of a "Saturday Night Live-ish" show, "Donnellys" is the annoying, insidery and smug series about the doings of the Donnelly brothers, low-level thugs in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The acting's good and the actors are good-looking. But, really, wouldn't you expect something more cohesive from the folks who brought you "American Beauty?" -
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Linda Stasi 50
The ensemble company, including the always-wonderful Laura San Giacomo, who plays her friend, never misses a beat. Too bad this series--which tries too hard--misses a stanza or two. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Gunn is fine in limited doses. I like him better as a design guru than the closet king. -
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Linda Stasi 50
After a few minutes, it becomes clear that this is yet another formulaic cop drama off the "Lethal Weapon" template. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Terrific cast, some fun, but overall the writing is often as dead as Walter. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The characters are likeable enough so that you might even grow to care about them--and the show--in this arid writers' strike environment. -
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Linda Stasi 50
It's all a bit ridiculous and the writing is scary, although the stars are first rate and the locales are pretty good too. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Swingtown could have been great. Instead it's a hit-you-over-the-head production--with product placement and wardrobe so obvious it begs us to scream, "That's so authentic!"--best forgotten. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The best part of this show is the acting, which is generally excellent - particularly that of Hugh Dillon as Ed Lane, the conscience-riddled sharpshooter. Too bad the writing isn't as on-target as Lane's high-powered automatic. -
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Linda Stasi 50
This brings up the writing, which is strictly discount--and so are the plots, which don't tell us enough in the victims he saves. -
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Linda Stasi 50
It's like watching a drag show--you know, when you're supposed to laugh because we're conditioned to laugh on cue. But in reality, it's forced, er, gaiety. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The best part of the show is watching Cho's standup act. Other than that, I really don't care to watch someone pick out clothes and talk to her "Glam Squad." -
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Linda Stasi 50
The band is gold as far as kiddie parties go, but more like copper on the after-dark circuit. The same can be said for the concept vs. the execution here. -
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Adam Buckman 50
Too many serial killers threaten to overwhelm The Mentalist, whose charismatic lead character can stand on his own, if the show's producers would only realize that murders committed singly can be just as interesting as serial murders, and just as difficult to solve, too -
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Linda Stasi 50
On the up side, some of the one-liners are quite funny. On the downside, a lot of the show just doesn't work no matter how hard Mohr works it. -
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Linda Stasi 50
A new syndicated series that is like the illegitimate love child of "Lord of the Rings" and a weekend role player. -
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Linda Stasi 50
All in all, even with an accomplished actor like Hutton, there's nothing special to set Leverage apart from other cookie-cutter dramas of this ilk. -
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Linda Stasi 50
While some of the "finds" the security officers uncover at border crossings tonight at the Los Angeles International Airport, at the Blaine, Wash./Canada border, at the US/Mexican border and while patrolling the desert outside Tucson, are interesting, most are not. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The result, ironically enough, is a show that makes fun of all things PC and ends up being too PC to blister. -
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Linda Stasi 50
It's all dopey--and as believable as a telepathic paramedic, a supermodel detective and a partner who doesn't notice he's riding around with a psychic. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Good watching for fans of those campy, old Sci Fi original monster movies. -
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Linda Stasi 50
For fans, it's a bloody good start. For everyone else, there's always "CSI: New York" -- where you get the blood without the guts. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Lie to Me isn't terrible. From what I've seen so far, it's like "The DaVinci Code," in that it's something full of riveting information unfortunately wrapped around a dopey story and characters who should be in love with each other but aren't. -
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Linda Stasi 50
In its favor, Parks doesn't have a laugh track. On the minus side, it doesn't get many laughs. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The series, which has so much promise (and promised so much), is long on smug self-satisfaction and short on big laughs. -
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Michael Starr 50
I found myself smiling once or twice, but mostly thinking that all this is way-too-similar to "Family Guy" to carve out its own niche. -
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Linda Stasi 50
A "reality" show so huggy-weepy that it will put even the most enraged domestic abuser to sleep. -
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Linda Stasi 50
The few plot lines that don't revolve around her sex appeal--such as her older daughter becoming everything-aphobic, Eddie becoming crazy, and Dr. O'Hara (Eve Best) moving at warp speed on her self-destruction path--are all so interesting, it makes you long for more. -
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Linda Stasi 50
This could have been a really good show. Instead, "Fly Girls" ends up just an OK flight to fantasy land. -
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Michael Starr 50
The writing here isn't very snappy, Steve and Emmy are one-dimensional cutouts and Russell, the former "Felicity" star, looks uncomfortable playing it for laughs. -
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Linda Stasi 50
Detroit 1-8-7 is not bad and not great, though, ironically, the characters seem to have come off a Detroit assembly line. -
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Linda Stasi 50
This mommy-answer to "The View" is a somewhat dumbed-down version of that show except here the panel--Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini, Sara Gilbert and Marissa Jaret Winokur--discuss traditional "women's topics," i.e. kids, cooking and such. -
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Linda Stasi 50
If "Survivor" and "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" had a love child, it would be called "Sarah Palin's Alaska.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Linda Stasi 50
Funny, but not for the faint of heart.- Posted Dec 10, 2010
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Linda Stasi 50
Season 2 is more of less than we've come to expect.- Posted Jan 3, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
While the show is interesting and well-acted, ultimately, it lacks shock and awe.- Posted Jan 4, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
The scripts are nearly line-for-line copies of the Brit version. But the scenes are over the top, the kids are too good-looking and seem to have spent too much time at acting camp.- Posted Jan 17, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
With funnier material, they [the actors] could really make this thing work.- Posted Feb 8, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
Granted, the acting in this two-man play is brilliant, but the film itself is strictly for master thespians on the loose--and people who are desperate to get into restaurants that won't take their reservations.- Posted Feb 14, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
There's something secretly skeevy about self-made, self- promoting millionaires being given an hour-long, personal infomercial for doing what should be done in private--giving money to charity.- Posted Mar 4, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
On the triumphant side, Sarah strips her psyche raw and lets us inside the mind, the heart and the life of the broke and broken princess who must find herself or die, she says right off. [...] OK, Fergie has legitimate issues. And now, she's dead broke, as well. So, she brings in "the world's greatest experts" to save her. And who are these experts? Why, Oprah's all-stars, Dr. Phil and Suze Orman, of course! Let the failure portion of the show begin!- Posted Jun 10, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
If you love Fran Drescher, and just the sound of her voice sends you into peals of laughter, happily settle in to enjoy her divorce. If, however, her voice makes your inner dog howl, run like your rear is on fire.- Posted Jun 14, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
Keep the money and run like hell if you're tired of reality shows that border on surreality.- Posted Aug 2, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
Not the greatest dinosaur, er Discovery, but it's a respite from the endless 9/11 coverage that will dominate next week's fare.- Posted Sep 6, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
The acting isn't great, some of the hundreds of subplots aren't bad, but this ain't "Mad Men" and Cibrian and Heard are no Jon Hamm and January Jones despite their desperate attempt to be.- Posted Sep 19, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
Its two stars, Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs, who make this show bearable. With different casting, this show would be as flat as the pancakes they serve up in the Brooklyn diner where they work.- Posted Sep 19, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
Problem is both series [2 Broke Girls and Whitney] are hit-you-over-the-head until you laugh or else.- Posted Sep 22, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
The scariest thing about American Horror Story, the highly anticipated FX series from the guys who brought you "Glee" and "Nip/Tuck," is that almost everything in the entire show has been cribbed (or crypt-ed, in this case) from every other American horror story.- Posted Oct 5, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
Think "Kitchen Nightmares" for dysfunctional relatives with the relationship experts coming in and making things work better in two minutes.- Posted Oct 25, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
The only fun comes from Pressly and Finneran, who are so likeable they almost overcome the overwrought action.- Posted Nov 30, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
There are elements on night one that actually are pretty darned scary. Too bad there's a night two.- Posted Dec 12, 2011
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Linda Stasi 50
What's mostly wrong with this new series is that it doesn't know who in God's name it is.- Posted Mar 5, 2012
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Linda Stasi 50
This one gets catergorized as both yuck and yikes TV. Not for the weak of stomach or pure of heart.- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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Linda Stasi 50
It's Paris Hilton's "The Simple Life" but with a real simpleton at the helm.- Posted Jun 19, 2012
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Linda Stasi 50
Strangely enough, the only scenes that aren't so dark that you need night-vision goggles to watch, are the ones with the naked ladies. Then, suddenly the lights are finally working properly. Still, there's something compelling about it all--maybe it's the era, or the clothes, or the hint that this could be something terrific.- Posted Sep 14, 2012
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Linda Stasi 50
666 Park Avenue [is] ABC's not-scary rip-off of "Rosemary's Baby."- Posted Sep 28, 2012
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Linda Stasi 50
Problem is in 1600 Penn they are shooting for "Animal House" in the White House but too often end up with nobody home.- Posted Dec 17, 2012
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Linda Stasi 50
There are twists and turns a-plenty, and Bacon and Purefoy are so good they make up for the silliness - if not the gratuitous gore.- Posted Jan 21, 2013
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Kyle Smith 50
The Americans at the moment seems to fall uneasily between the methodical and the campy.- Posted Jan 28, 2013
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Michael Starr 50
To use some Southie Vernacular, I would just book it ("run as fast as you can") from this wicked ("very") mediocre show which appears destined for the TV barrel ("trashcan").- Posted Jan 29, 2013
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Linda Stasi 50
It’s just a big billboard spotted with interesting advice tidbits and, of course, tears.- Posted Feb 7, 2013
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Linda Stasi 50
Problem with Freak Show is once you meet the performers, and they have the obligatory let’s-get-acquainted party (what is this, “The Real Housewolves of Venice Beach?”), you’re already over the shock.- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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Adam Buckman 50
In the first two episodes provided for preview, the formula gets the plot across with minimal confusion, although you wonder at times if all the time-shifting and multiple storytelling is really necessary...Well, maybe. Because if this show gave it to you straight, it would run the risk of becoming just another violent L.A. cop show.- Posted Mar 18, 2013
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Linda Stasi 50
It plays like a desperate attempt to recreate all the wonder of “Downton Abbey”--but with no characters to care about.- Posted Apr 1, 2013
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Adam Buckman 50
The Wire looks and feels like an ordinary show from some other network that snuck on to the air while the HBO execs' backs were turned. [31 May 2002, p.122]Posted Apr 29, 2013 -
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Adam Buckman 38
Like this movie, most of the passengers in "Mayday" are dead on arrival. -
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Adam Buckman 38
The executive producers of this series are David Mamet and Shawn Ryan, but it has none of the panache of Mamet's plays and movies such as "Glengarry Glen Ross" or "The Spanish Prisoner," and none of the blunt force of Ryan's best-known work, "The Shield" on FX. -
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Linda Stasi 38
A bad morph-job of "Seinfeld" and "Friends" but without the simplicity of the first, the chemistry of the second or the brilliance, timing, and writing of either. -
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Adam Buckman 38
This show is so cliched that it actually contains one of those scenes in which a camera makes a slow, 360-degree circle around Jaime as she gazes skyward. -
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Linda Stasi 38
Moonlight, unfortunately, doesn't trust its audience and so falls to exposition via a fake talk-show interview at the beginning, and then throughout with dialogue dully delivered by Internet investigative reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles). -
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Adam Buckman 38
The end result of all that effort, however, is a miniseries that's as dull and throbbing as a severe headache. -
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Linda Stasi 38
The second episode is 30 percent better than the first. Maybe by episode six, it will actually be watchable. -
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Linda Stasi 38
HBO's new series from death-obsessed Alan Ball, creator of the legendary "Six Feet Under," whose new show True Blood, won't so much make your blood run cold as it will leave you cold. -
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Adam Buckman 38
In the CW's world, happiness is rubbing elbows with the rich and fabulous, and drawing the attention of various rich boys, while a soundtrack of chick-friendly pop tunes plays constantly in the background. If this sounds like happiness to you, then by all means feel free to join this "Privileged" class. You have nothing to waste but your time. -
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Michael Starr 38
The ensemble cast here is flat and one-dimensional--somewhat surprising, since John Masius ("St. Elsewhere") is one of the show's executive producers. -
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Michael Starr 38
It's a format that just doesn't mesh with a laughtrack -- and when there's nothing particularly funny about what we're watching, it smacks of desperation. -
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Linda Stasi 38
The real-life Village locale (in Nambia) is fascinating and McKellen is great, as always--but Caviezel and the rest just grimace a lot and make you want to get-the-hell outta town. -
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Linda Stasi 38
In place of dialogue, we get one-liners.- Posted Jan 11, 2012
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Linda Stasi 38
The show, yet another "reality" show starring a bunch of rich people who supposedly spend all their time together, partying, fake arguing and creating drama out of nothing, is so dull, it makes "Russian Dolls" look exciting.- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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Linda Stasi 38
The fact the mystery is pretty much laid out like a coma patient from the beginning, ruins whatever suspense you might otherwise have built up.- Posted Sep 4, 2012
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Linda Stasi 38
They tried for the tried and true, hoping they'd get "The Sopranos" meets "Grey's Anatomy" while filling the hole "House" left in the schedule. And, like a camel, they ended up with an animal made by committee.- Posted Sep 17, 2012
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Linda Stasi 38
If Freddy Krueger married Regan from "The Exorcist," and they moved to "Shutter Island" with "Agnes of God" on "Friday the 13th," they'd all end up in this Asylum.- Posted Oct 17, 2012
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Linda Stasi 25
"Kings" is a self-conscious attempt to reel in the 20- to 30-something male demographic that TV is so desperate to capture. But, unfortunately, it isn't edgy, especially funny or believable. -
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Adam Buckman 25
I doubt I will ever watch a single episode of "Courting Alex" beyond this first one. -
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Linda Stasi 25
Vulgar and incomprehensibly unfunny, "Sons & Daughters" is a clear attempt to be a hip hybrid of "Arrested Development," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office." Instead, it's just a mostly superb cast being thrown to the wolves with ugly dialogue. -
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Linda Stasi 25
The whole thing's about as enjoyable as getting stuck in a stalled subway car full of mimes. -
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Linda Stasi 25
A line-for-line ripoff of Bravo's not-terribly successful "The Real Housewives of Orange County." -
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Linda Stasi 25
One of the silliest shows to rear its dopey head this year. -
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Linda Stasi 25
"'Til Death's" Garrett, the man who made Jackie Gleason look like a disgusting manic-depressive jerk in that awful CBS movie, seems to be bringing the same unpleasant character to his first leading-man role in a sitcom. -
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Adam Buckman 25
As a talk-show host... he's a rank amateur who exhibits no discernible skills. -
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Adam Buckman 25
The improvisations are sometimes so forced that I swear you can actually see the actors thinking about what to say next. -
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Linda Stasi 25
The acting is OK, but not so OK that you can overlook their model-good-looks. I mean, no town can be that full of perfect specimens. But you would have thought Hollywood couldn't be so full of bad writers either. -
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Adam Buckman 25
Hr stupidity's a put-on (for her sake, I hope so), as is this entire show, whose concept is so convoluted that Fox had to devise a clumsy new term--"a comedy/reality hybrid"--to describe it. -
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Linda Stasi 25
It's a nasty piece of work filled with underage sex, vulgar, hateful kids and references to young girls that are flat-out ugly and disrespectful. -
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Adam Buckman 25
It became clear to me that Cavemen is extinct on arrival. -
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Linda Stasi 25
Even rousing viewers to stay awake would be a big accomplishment. -
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Linda Stasi 25
Matt produces two products in surplus amounts: cheese and corn. And I'm not talking by-products of animal husbandry. -
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Adam Buckman 25
The only fear engendered by this series is the fear that the NBC programming department has been possessed by Satan. -
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Linda Stasi 25
This series is a disturbingly unfunny bit of fluff that nonetheless manages to hit you over the head with its heavy, leaden jokes. -
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Adam Buckman 25
You've heard of artificial intelligence? How about no intelligence, which is the sum total of what went into transforming a 1980s TV show nobody cares about into a new, updated version nobody will watch. -
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Linda Stasi 25
NBC's unfunny adaptation of the wildly funny Australian sitcom, is arguably the worst idea for an import from the Land Down Under since Vegemite. -
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Linda Stasi 25
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you'd need rocks in your head to really love Game Show In My Head. -
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Linda Stasi 25
The series from Academy Award-winning "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody and Steven Spielberg smacks of smugness and self-congratulatory cleverness. -
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Linda Stasi 25
With jokes so bad, they make Carrot Top look funny, it's a tough haul for all--all around. -
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Linda Stasi 25
CBS' new social-experiment-on-a-budget-series, is one of those occasionally interesting summer replacement series that proves once more that "real" people will do anything to get on TV. -
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Linda Stasi 25
It keeps the proud tradition alive with dialogue so bad, it'll make you laugh out loud; acting so shallow, it could make a model look brainy; and actors so unbelievable, they can't even get the runway stomp right. -
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Linda Stasi 25
Hank, is one of the worst new (or old) comedies of this or many other seasons. -
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Linda Stasi 25
Daniel Henney is the new handsomest man on TV and it's a pleasure to watch him walk the halls in scrubs. But even he can't make me believe what Three Rivers is selling. For that, I'd need a brain transplant. -
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Michael Starr 25
There's nothing fresh or original, and certainly no reason to watch this show, unless you're a fan of this ilk of staged "reality" (see "The Kardashians").- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Linda Stasi 25
Added to these uncomfortable, setup situations are some others that simply defy explanation.- Posted Jan 25, 2011
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Linda Stasi 25
OK, not every TV procedural is dumb, but Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior? Dumb is too smart a word.- Posted Feb 16, 2011
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Linda Stasi 25
Breakout Kings is not only dumb and mind-numbingly silly, but what makes it all-the-more terrible is that all this silliness has been stolen from other mind-numbingly-silly shows.- Posted Mar 7, 2011
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Linda Stasi 25
Enter Bravo's new attempt at catching the "Bachelor Pad" phenomenon with Most Eligible Dallas, one of the most uneventful reality shows ever mounted.- Posted Aug 15, 2011
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Linda Stasi 25
For once--despite all the editing that went into making Kim the breakaway bride look like the slighted one--they will be exposed as the phony kreeps they are. And Humphries? He ends up looking like the dumbest schmo to ever appear on reality TV--and that's saying a lot!- Posted Nov 28, 2011
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Linda Stasi 25
Rob is a slapstick shtick-fest that strains to be "Modern Family," but isn't even close.- Posted Jan 12, 2012
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Linda Stasi 25
Clint's wife and daughters star in E!'s newest and really horrible reality bore, Mrs. Eastwood & Company.- Posted May 18, 2012
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Linda Stasi 25
There is no moral or morals to this insanity. GTL is DOA- Posted Oct 2, 2012
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Michael Starr 25
It's all a muddled mess of computer-generated battlefield scenes, gratuitous bare-breast-and-buttock shots (men and women--there's no favoritism here) and "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"-type photography.- Posted Jan 25, 2013
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Kyle Smith 25
This series is about as inside-the-Beltway as Fiji, and Fincher's main plan to compensate for the stupidity level is to have the gentlemen whip off their glasses and the ladies whip off their clothes.- Posted Jan 31, 2013
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Linda Stasi 12
The jokes are dismally unpleasant and vaguely depressing. -
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Linda Stasi 12
A ridiculous, cloying, condescending, wrong-headed reality show. -
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Linda Stasi 12
There is a point to this mess, but what it is, I can't say. -
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Linda Stasi 12
A loser it is. Shatner's quips in real life are better and more outrageous than anything Halpern's father or Halpern himself (who exec-produces this bomb) ever came up with. Hearing Shatner deliver them just points that out. -
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Linda Stasi 0
This silly excuse for a show is made up of a great-looking ensemble in the most blatant teen-sexuality show in broadcast history. -
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Adam Buckman 0
[The] characters are so charmless, it's as if they were created on purpose to actually repel viewership - a TV first. -
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Linda Stasi 0
If you last through 20 minutes of "Twenty Good Years," NBC's new sit-no-com, you are either a saint, a madman or in a tragic and irreversible coma. -
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Linda Stasi 0
Everyone involved in creating this show should be forced to immediately seek other forms of employment. This business is not - repeat, not - for you. -
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Adam Buckman 0
Yes, if you want to hear these bucketheads argue over who engages in this or that degrading sex act, then by all means watch "Sons of Hollywood." For me, however, watching this show was the equivalent of having my faced shoved into a toilet. -
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Linda Stasi 0
"The Real Wedding Crashers" is about as much fun as going to your Uncle Fred's fifth wedding to a fat phone sex operator. In other words, a wedding you don't have to attend. -
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Linda Stasi 0
I apologize to all the Flash Gordon fans around the world. I know I had nothing to do with this series , but it's so horrible I somehow feel responsible - just by watching it. -
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Linda Stasi 0
This "women's" show is such an embarrassing mess, it makes me ashamed to be a woman. -
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Adam Buckman 0
This show, which was once so thrilling and fun, has become full of itself, its characters spouting crazy nonsense. -
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Linda Stasi 0
It's a horrifyingly embarrassing low-rent dating show in which a 40-year-old woman must choose one young cheeseball from among a batch of 20 spoiled curds. -
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Linda Stasi 0
The truly terrible, Lock 'N Load, a six-parter debuting tonight on Showtime, is possibly the worst-taste reality series since "The Littlest Groom"--and it took some serious doing on the part of Showtime to manage that. -
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Linda Stasi 0
NBC's idiotic drama, Outlaw, is so bad it should be listed as a Class A felony. -
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Linda Stasi 0
The premiere, which was written by and stars "Friends'" Matthew Perry, has a premise that's full of possibility but a delivery that never arrives.- Posted Feb 9, 2011
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