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For 15 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 73% higher than the average critic
  • 0% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 9.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 73
Highest review score:
Game of Thrones: Season 3
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
Do No Harm: Season 1
Critic Score 25
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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    • Metascore: 90
    • Reviewed by
      Tom Long       100
    Game of Thrones: Season 3
    Massive, cruelly dense, absurdly complicated and absolutely thrilling.
  2. Girls: Season 2
    Girls continues to delight and provoke in a way too few shows can.
  3. Parade's End: Season 1
    The disconnect between propriety and reality keeps the miniseries on constant edge. The entire cast is fine, but Hall steals the show.
  4. Hannibal: Season 1
    The show isn't perfect--the female characters are weak, Graham can get a bit wild-eyed and the killings get progressively more bizarre. But creator Bryan Fuller has a good grip on the material and Mikkelsen sets a tone that's both chilling and intriguing.
    • Metascore: 87
    • Critic Score 83
    Mad Men: Season 6
    The suits are louder, the sideburns are longer; aside from that, the season-six premiere proves to be classic Mad Men with plenty of vice (maybe more than before, at least more pot), long hours at work and lots of questions.
  6. Phil Spector: Season 1
    Mamet is known for tight, pointed dramas, and he holds true to his rep here, creating a mystery, procedural and character study all in one.
  7. Family Tree: Season 1
    Family Tree is addictively silly stuff.
  8. The Following: Season 1
    [A] somewhat overheated but still fairly effective new thriller.
  9. The Americans: Season 1
    The Americans has potential. The way it uses recent history as a reflector of modern deceits while bouncing the concept of patriotism around mixes nicely with the hang-by-your-fingertips story turns.
  10. House of Cards (2013): Season 1
    Fincher's unemotional style comes through in the first two episodes, and the show could use more heat. But Spacey makes it worth watching.
  11. Smash: Season 2
    Maybe this will all become coherent. But then maybe it shouldn't. Sometimes messy is better.
  12. Cult: Season 1
    You get the feeling creator Rockne S. O'Bannon is building a puzzle box to nowhere here, but Knepper's malevolent glare sets a nice, unhinged tone, and there's certainly plenty of room to move forward.
  13. Bates Motel: Season 1
    Things go bad quickly, which is to be expected. The challenge with this show will be to keep it appropriately Crazy Town without letting it get Loony Bin bad.
  14. Do No Harm: Season 1
    This show is so far-fetched it makes "24" look like political reporting and "Lost" seem like a nature documentary.

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