Salon's Scores
- TV
For 301 reviews, this publication has graded:
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45% higher than the average critic
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1% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 61
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Positive: 165 out of 165
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Mixed: 0 out of 165
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Negative: 0 out of 165
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Look a little closer, though, and what you'll find is a truly strange cop dramedy with lots of sharp dialogue, jocular banter and offbeat scenarios. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Thankfully, while the reckoning of "The Memory Loss Tapes" is probably necessary, the other documentaries in the series are a little more hopeful. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Just as "King of the Hill" started out as a show about middle-class Texans and slowly evolved into a twisted take on mainstream suburbia and family life at large, The Goode Family should eventually transcend the boundaries of its original premise. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Hung is much more subtle and charming and odd than its name or its concept imply. -
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Critic Score 80
It is genuinely creepy--party "X-Files," part "Close Encounters," with fine performances all around. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Watching Pete ride an emotional roller coaster may be the most entertaining part of Mad Men. Pete beautifully demonstrates the mixed blessing that big responsibilities bestow on the average life. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Watching Dexter endure the bubbly, enforced cheer of family life may make this the best season of the drama series to date. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
In its fourth season, Friday Night Lights is just as thoughtful and restrained as it's ever been, with its focus firmly planted on the small-town disappointments of ordinary people. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
This show transcends the base level of twisty procedurals with one thing: Patty Hewes. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
The Starter Wife is fun and clever, but it’s witty dialogue and a great cast, not thoughtful storytelling, that keep this rich-divorcée gaffe-fest rolling along. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
OK, fine, so maybe the pilot does wrap up with your typical teary-eyed confession. Otherwise, though, Lie to Me is as thoroughly entertaining and charming as its fine-looking cast of characters. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
ABC's Shark Tank is easily the best new reality TV show to air this summer (which, admittedly, isn't saying much). -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Combining the breakneck comedy and sly farce of "Arrested Development" with the pop-savvy wit of "Ugly Betty" and the twisted humor, odd soundtrack and deadpan voice-overs of one of the greatest movies about high school of all time, "Election," Glee is bold, silly, demonic and addictive--one full hour of very good (but not very clean) fun. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
The first episode of Community features alarmingly smart writing, and the cast is fantastic, from Chase, who can make us laugh with just a look, to McHale, who's believably slippery but not too adorably caddish or cloying (Zach Braff, anyone?) as the antihero. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Archer is funny. If you don't agree after the first episode, keep watching. You might try drinking a little coffee or having a doughnut before you tune in, though, because the zingers fly by pretty quickly. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Yes, Bored To Death may be a parody of noir, or maybe it's a dramedy that dips into detective novel tomfoolery, but most of all, it's a story that revels in the realm of those strange overgrown children who use artistic pursuits to justify their weak little whimpering selves. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Each week the show is both intriguing and satisfying, as we watch Alicia piece together little victories while comforting her kids and confronting lurking demons from her old life. Despite the usual familiar courtroom shenanigans, the show's full, multilayered episodes keep us interested. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Wootton dips as far into darkness as even Baron Cohen, but instead of merely relying on cursing and butt thongs to create comic gold, Wootton crafts a well-thought-out narrative and puts a few props in place before he meets his real-life characters. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Although "The Good Guys" might sound like the sort of cliché-heavy dramedy unlikely to hold our attention for more than a few milliseconds, the show pushes its formula just past zany and lands in the far more appealing territory of downright absurd. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Even if it slices and dices art into something consumable and therefore disposable, I love the audacity of Bravo's Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist. This show takes all of the petulance and nastiness and passion of "Project Runway" or "Top Chef" and applies it to the rarefied realm of fine art. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
While the orgiastic madness of Season 2 might be hard to top, the first three episodes of Season 3 look promising indeed, serving up one juicy twist after another, plus a steady flow of great dialogue, intense conversations, brutality, blackmail, mystery, suspense and, best of all, some wickedly funny moments that are beyond compare. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
As funny as he is, it's clear that Louis C.K. doesn't just want to tell jokes. He wants to present the full force of his terrible brain, the ways that he eats himself alive day after day. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
What Rescue Me has shined and polished to a high gloss, though, is those scenes of aggressive camaraderie between men. They're smart, funny and utterly realistic in terms of the ways that men relate to each other. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
With its patient pace and restrained style, Rubicon may take a while to get to the truth, but at least as viewers we suspect that there will be something weighty to discover once it does. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
CW's Nikita remake isn't nearly as awful as you'd imagine. In fact, it's remarkably good. -
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Although every second of this comedy is far from genius, the disturbed mood and unique mean-spirited flavor of it all points to what the network comedies are so often lacking: bold choices that border on the absurd.- Posted Oct 22, 2010
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Heather Havrilesky 80
But the utter lack of hipness of Men of a Certain Age, the total lack of concern for what's deemed cool and what isn't, the complete disregard for matching the breakneck pace, the action, the swooning romances, the spitty outbursts, the shiny thrills of other TV shows, is exactly what makes this drama so lovable.- Posted Dec 7, 2010
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Heather Havrilesky 80
Scorsese's documentary offers us a long overdue taste of her unique, queasily accurate perspectives on our culture--always right, never fair and never disappointing.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Matt Zoller Seitz 80
Armisen and Browstein's masterstroke is showing how certain flavors of modern leftist sensitivity/engagement can seem (to outsiders) like passive-aggressive self-absorption laced with contempt for the unenlightened.- Posted Jan 20, 2011
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Matt Zoller Seitz 80
Students of Marshall's life and times won't find any new information here, but the personal shadings are crucial because they humanize what might otherwise have been dry textbook details. Stevens and Fishburne find a strong emotional through-line for Marshall's greatest triumphs: the desire to right injustices visited upon Marshall, his family and his people.- Posted Feb 24, 2011
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