PopMatters' Scores

For 398 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 57
Highest review score:
Critic Score 90
Lowest review score:
Score distribution:
  1. Mixed: 0 out of 137
  2. Negative: 0 out of 137
137 tv reviews
  1. The networks have been wondering how to compete with the no-holds barred nature of cable programming. This is it.
    • Metascore: 85
    • Critic Score 90
    Again, Breaking Bad promises to be quite a ride.
  2. A fast moving mix of physical comedy and wry dialogue articulate this friendship, revealing its complexity and its depth.
  3. Perhaps the most disturbing possibility--the subtext that makes Breaking Bad both enthralling and often unbearable to watch--is that Walter is becoming who he always was. He hasn’t changed. He’s been purified.
  4. Nurse Jackie offers both gripping drama and outrageous comedy.
  5. Treme sketches and interweaves stories and desires, hopes and disenchantments.
  6. Its layered and nuanced analysis of male identity makes Men of a Certain Age worth watching.
  7. Densely plotted and epic in scope, full of graphic violence and lots of sex, it's tremendously entertaining.
  8. Simon's Treme is an equally astute portrait of "an urban people" still struggling to come back from a brink.
  9. On Freddie Roach [is] Peter Berg's extraordinary six-part HBO series.
  10. Herzog listens and interjects his own helpfully perverse insights.
  11. At the same time [Eros Hoagland is taking pictures], his process is also the subject of a picture--shaped in part by the remarkable work of photographer and cinematographer Jared Moossy, who shoots all four episodes of Witness--a picture that shows both context and effect, the sort of broad view that might emerge from the most specific images.