Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Scores

  • TV
Select another publication »
For 796 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 43% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 58
Highest review score:
The Good Wife: Season 2
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Momma's Boys: Season 1
Critic Score 0
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 369 out of 369
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 369
  3. Negative: 0 out of 369
369 tv reviews
view
per page
  1. Upstairs, Downstairs: Season 1
    The new Upstairs gets off to a somewhat slow start in the first of three one-hour installments, but in its second and third episodes the dramatic engines rev as the political climate of the day begins to drive the story.
  2. Happy Endings: Season 1
    Happy Endings excels at fearless humor that's sometimes shocking, not because it's gratuitous, but because it's an unexpected surprise--and a welcome one at that.
  3. Game of Thrones: Season 1
    A grand soap opera of epic proportions, Game of Thrones can be a bit talky in some episodes, but the series draws a viewer in with well-defined characters and a multitude of simultaneous stories whose plot turns are generally unpredictable.
  4. Louie: Season 2
    Clearly this show is not for the easily offended. Not everyone will appreciate this kind of humor, but anyone who values smart, provocative comedy that's about truth telling will be intrigued.
  5. Friday Night Dinner: Season 1
    The humor in Friday Night Dinner is often as surprising as it is rude. But there's a spirit of good-natured goofball charm evident in this family whose members clearly love one another, quirks and all.
  6. Sons of Anarchy: Season 4
    FX's Sons of Anarchy returns to form in its fourth season premiere this week with the action set squarely back in the motorcycle club's hometown of Charming, Calif. Even better, the show's wannabe hero, Jax (Charlie Hunnam), is fighting again, putting forth a plan to get out of his current situation.
  7. A Gifted Man : Season 1
    There's no question that A Gifted Man is the network's best, most creatively successful effort in the past five years.
  8. Suburgatory: Season 1
    Suburgatory is fall's most consistently funny comedy pilot.
  9. Work of Art: The Next Great Artist: Season 2
    Like "Project Runway," there's creativity involved in this competition. And the fact that it's a competition, and therefore orchestrated and produced by necessity, makes it seem less fake-real.
  10. The Walking Dead: Season 2
    The show creates tension--through atmosphere and characters the audience cares about--and offers so many make-you-jump scares that by the end of an episode, you're left breathless.
  11. Lost Girl: Season 1
    With a witty script by series creator Michelle Lovretta, Lost Girl mixes mystery-of-the-week plots and character stories with an overarching mythology in a way that's palatable for fans of serialized and procedural dramas.
  12. Alcatraz: Season 1
    The pilot looks great, offers an intriguing plot and effortlessly introduces the show's characters and premise.
  13. Key & Peele: Season 1
    Its hits outpace its misses--by a mile. That's not often the case with sketch comedy shows. Just as important, the humor is consistently smart.
  14. Smash: Season 1
    An entertaining drama that sucks you in and gets your toes tapping during several musical numbers.
  15. It Gets Better: Season 1
    It's a sensitive, one-hour portrait of three teens: one gay, one lesbian, one transgender.
  16. GCB: Season 1
    GCB offers surprisingly clever dialogue and winning comedic performances.
  17. Game Change: Season 1
    Filled with pulse-pounding, thriller-style music, Game Change is a thoroughly engrossing film made all the more compelling by Ms. Moore's performance.
  18. Nurse Jackie: Season 4
    Putting Jackie in rehab actually works out well comedically, too, because she's surrounded by a new batch of odd characters to bounce off.
  19. Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23: Season 1
    Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23 gets off to a strong comedic start with a quick-witted, fast-paced premiere episode.
  20. The L.A. Complex: Season 1
    No one will confuse The L.A. Complex with "Mad Men" or "The Good Wife," but for the type of show it sets out to be, this Complex is surprisingly, well, complex.
  21. Sherlock: Season 2
    Most of the time Sherlock's cheeky sense of humor makes this version of the character a delight.
  22. The Glee Project: Season 2
    Last summer Oxygen's The Glee Project proved a better TV show that Fox's "Glee" and it appears that may be more true in the show's second season.
  23. Louie: Season 3
    The series remains smart and thought-provoking but it's also quite funny.
  24. Boss: Season 2
    Season two pulls viewers back on board with intriguing plot twists, more light moments and strong performances.
  25. Bomb Girls: Season 1
    Essentially a prime-time soap, Bomb Girls is a well-plotted, smartly written soap that doesn't shy away from, shocking, even gruesome, plot turns in showing the dangers of working in a bomb-making factory.
  26. Nashville (2012): Season 1
    It all blends together in an entertaining, easily digestible hour.
  27. Underemployed: Season 1
    Underemployed is one of the most enjoyably upbeat twentysomething scripted dramas to hit prime time in ages.
  28. American Horror Story: Season 2
    In its first two episodes, AHS returns as a creepy, spooky jolt of unpredictable storytelling.
  29. Mockingbird Lane: Season 1
    Mockingbird Lane is funny, fanciful, a visual treat and, perhaps surprisingly, full of heart.
  30. Firefly: Browncoats Unite: Season 1
    In a sort of oral history style, a moderator leads them through the show's tumultuous birth, its low ratings, demise and resurrection as the 2005 motion picture "Serenity." But what's most interesting about Browncoats Unite is learning how what was going on behind the camera impacted what viewers saw on TV.
Page:

Top Trailers

See all »
See all trailers »