For 916 reviews, this publication has graded:
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4% same as the average critic
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.1 points lower than other critics.
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Average TV Show review score: 59
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Positive: 407 out of 407
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Mike Hale 60
Unfortunately, the three hours of the show, while they include chases, sexual entrapment, grisly murders and lots of spycraft, never exceed the tension in those quiet opening scenes.- Posted Dec 6, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 70
Last Resort is an action-adventure mystery slickly coated with suspense, but some of the uncertainty lies over whether the story can stay afloat for more than a few episodes.- Posted Sep 26, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 50
Those jokes are supposed to establish Liz’s geek cred, but they mostly serve as speed bumps in the show’s otherwise fast and clever banter. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The premiere episode of Life on Mars, by contrast [to "Kath & Kim"], is strange and exhilarating. -
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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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Alessandra Stanley 40
The show's characters are flat and so is the writing, but there is something universally appealing about blood, guts and a rushing gurney. There is no Dr. Feelgood in House, but the patients' symptoms provide a little consolation.- Posted Mar 11, 2013
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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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Jon Caramanica 70
As on "Gilmore Girls" there's a sense that a place, if peaceful enough, can redeem the people within.- Posted Jun 11, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Ms. Palin dominates as a disarming egotist whose presumption is balanced by charisma and animal cunning--and in this film, as in life, she has the last smirk.- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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Ginia Bellafante 30
Torchwood is a world I wouldn’t mind seeing erased. -
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Alessandra Stanley 60
Cinema Verite is a clever, beautifully made but somehow underwhelming re-enactment of the breakup of the Loud marriage, on camera and off.- Posted Apr 21, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 70
It’s the pacing that makes Breaking Bad more of a hard slog than a cautionary joy ride. It has good acting, particularly by Bryan Cranston (“Malcolm in the Middle”), who blends Walt’s sad-sack passivity with glints of wry self-awareness. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
A satirical and quite funny comedy about two British television writers, a husband- and wife team, Sean and Beverly Lincoln (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig) who are lured to Hollywood to adapt their hit sitcom for an American network.- Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 70
The series is not easy to follow or instantly love, but it is impossible to dismiss.- Posted Feb 25, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Upstairs Downstairs sticks to the rules established by the original and defies the odds by being as good, and in some ways, even better.- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Both series [The Bletchley Circle and "Call the Midwife"] find a clever, entertaining way to pay tribute to women who in their time were often overlooked and underestimated, and nevertheless found ways to never be ordinary.- Posted Apr 19, 2013
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Virginia Heffernan 70
This peculiar series seals NBC’s new role as the skinflint’s HBO. The shows “30 Rock,” “Friday Night Lights” and now “Andy Barker, P.I.” are all so engrossing and so creatively untrammeled that it’s almost suspicious. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
"Entourage" is as good as ever in its third season, yet somehow different. -
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Mike Hale 60
However, beyond its stars (and a welcome guest appearance in the pilot by Dallas Roberts), Elementary is a mixed bag. Mr. Doherty, whose primary credit is a long stint on the voluptuously melodramatic "Medium," is good on atmosphere and character but not so strong on plot mechanics.- Posted Sep 26, 2012
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Neil Genzlinger 70
By the end of the second episode, this tasty show starts to reveal that it is not just another identity-swapping story. Something creepily sci-fi is definitely going on.- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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Critic Score 80
Middleman skillfully incorporates real-life details into its fantastic scenarios. Its characters aren’t just Manichaean warriors; they also live the kinds of lives that people read comic books to escape from. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
The second season of “Sleeper Cell” burrows even deeper into the mind-set of Muslim extremists than the first and is all the better and more troubling for it. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Lone Star offers an amusing and novel television conceit, but in an age of Enron and Bernard Madoff, it takes a very persuasive actor to keep viewers rooting for a swindler. Mr. Wolk is well cast. -
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Ginia Bellafante 70
The camp factor churned out is fairly high, and with Primeval, a new series starting Saturday on BBC America, it climbs up Big Ben and right on over the top of the London Eye. -
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Mike Hale 70
It’s no “State of Play,” or even “Five Days,” the 2007 BBC-HBO abduction drama that it resembles in structure and pace. But it’s still sufficiently intelligent and textured that it makes the sparse American competition in the closed-end crime drama category--the “Jesse Stone” movies, “Harper’s Island”--look silly by comparison. -
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Mike Hale 60
The result--for the person with a casual interest in cars, anyway--is a show that at this point lacks the character of the British original but is, particularly in its second and third episodes, reasonably entertaining by American reality-TV standards.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Alessandra Stanley 80
By 1:20 p.m. the series's third season is already as tightly coiled, clever and suspenseful as the first two. [28 Oct 2003]Posted Jun 18, 2013 -
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Neil Genzlinger 70
In Sleepyhead, the better of the two, someone is killing women by inducing strokes....In Scaredy Cat the crimes are just as bizarre, though the outcome is more predictable.- Posted Jun 11, 2012
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