For 914 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics.
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Average TV Show review score: 59
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Positive: 406 out of 406
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Alessandra Stanley 80
It is unusually good: a harsh public-service message built into a clever, suspenseful thriller. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The remake has everything that those earlier versions had and something more: Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett together and at each other's throats. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Life on Mars is a smarter, gloomier "Journeyman." -
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Virginia Heffernan 80
Like Bravo's fashion winner "Project Runway," the channel's promising "Top Chef" flaunts terms of art and insiderism to give it authority. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Top Chef promises more than a clash of personalities; it inspires patriotism. -
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Critic Score 80
The closest American popular television has ever come to this kind of close-up realism is probably the drug-dealing scenes in "The Wire" on HBO, and even they seem a little tame and stagey compared with what takes place in Dona Marta. -
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Virginia Heffernan 80
“Big Day” is marvelously cast, and the actors, especially Wendie Malick, manage, like the cast of “24,” to convey a sense of urgency that almost belongs on the stage. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Friday Night Lights (which begins Wednesday on DirecTV, the satellite subscription service that is helping finance it, and moves to NBC in February) is delivered with the precision and manner of ethnography--it never condescends. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
There is nothing else quite like it on television, and that is actually saying a lot. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The series is a clever update, not to say rip-off, of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” set behind the scenes at an NBC comedy show rather than in a television newsroom, and it is very funny. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Damages borrows heavily from the front page, and that keeps it interesting. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
There is nothing supernatural behind the mystery, and there is no deep-rooted government conspiracy lurking behind seemingly mundane events. But suspense builds, personalities strengthen and change, and “The Nine” takes on a life of its own. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Had it arrived 10 or 15 years earlier, when long-form narrative was not the dominant form on cable television, it would have been felt, arguably, more as an explosion than a trickle. The series has at least so far failed to find a large audience, indicating perhaps how much we have come to take good serial drama for granted. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Violence, like deficit spending, is a very American vice. “Dexter” is yet another temptation that is almost impossible to resist. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The nature-nurture question has always been central to the show: had his upbringing been different, would his genetic makeup still have led him onto the same path? Now the stakes have been raised compellingly in that debate. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
State of Mind owes most of its appeal to Ms. Taylor, an accomplished indie actress with unusual jolie-laide looks who brings a wry charm and dignity to the inauspicious role of a wronged wife who is also burdened with an overbearing mother. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Five Days, made by the BBC and HBO, is riveting because it weaves the most familiar milestones of a major homicide investigation--the news conferences, police interrogations and family meltdowns--into a less predictable and intricately layered narrative that averts clichés without diluting the suspense. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
There’s a cynicism balancing the upbeat goofiness of Eli Stone. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The show works because Ms. Applegate is the kind of comic actress who could never be completely believable as a goody-two-shoes. She puts a healthy ironic distance between herself and that dreaded entity, the better person her character must become. You look in her eyes, and, happily, you see a recidivist. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Guided by an ambient lunacy, the show resists forced restlessness, settling in and fleshing out its characters’ idiosyncrasies instead. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The story of Ned (Lee Pace), a young man who can bring the dead back to life, is sweetly odd, but also oddly charming. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
One of the more humanizing adventures in science fiction to arrive in quite a while, the series is taut, haunting, relevant and an exploration of adolescent exceptionalism rendered without the cheerleading uniforms and parody of “Heroes.” -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
This show is smart and rigorous, with a concentration that bores deep without growing dull. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
In many ways the second season is richer. The stories are again lifted from “Be’ Tipul,” but set in New York, the epicenter of post-Freudian civilization and its discontents. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The series is part spy spoof, part workplace comedy, and it is a genuinely engaging homage to the nerd hero. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The narrative structure of the show is incredibly satisfying: During each hour a crime is committed and solved, as Charlie’s search for who might have framed him provides the overriding arch, satisfying our short attention spans and taste for long-form narrative at once. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
It’s a premise that in the wrong hands could be boorish and not at all amusing, so it is to the writers’ credit that Aliens is instead fresh, funny and charming in a tart, sardonic way, one of the best sendups of adolescent angst since "The Wonder Years" and "Malcolm in the Middle" (and perhaps even "My So-Called Life"). -
