For 881 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics.
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Average TV Show review score: 59
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 390 out of 390
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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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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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Ginia Bellafante 80
Like so many contemporary television thrillers, FlashForward works just as powerfully as a domestic drama as it does as a mechanism of apocalyptic intrigue. -
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Alessandra Stanley 50
The novelty of the hour-by-hour conceit wore off long ago, and the various plot devices and characters are all familiar. The fun, at least at the beginning of a new season, is in seeing how the creators will rejigger the pieces this time around. -
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Anita Gates 80
The script, by Amanda Coe, has a dexterous sense of fun. -
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Mike Hale 70
Ripper Street is reasonably clever and sometimes even witty in its depictions of forward-thinking detectives pioneering the forensic methods and investigative procedures that will eventually become the grist for a thousand television shows.- Posted Jan 18, 2013
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Neil Genzlinger 80
Little is off limits in terms of subject matter either; in two of the first three episodes people with disabilities are the focus of pivotal jokes. But it’s a mark of the show’s intelligence that in both cases it is Will who ends up humiliated. -
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Alessandra Stanley 60
"Big Love" gets better and more compelling, once the plot thickens and the wives' personalities and conflicts take deeper form. -
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Neil Genzlinger 60
There are interesting tidbits about the history of fashion photography--the racism, the drugs--but not much serious discussion about the cultural consequences of the evolution of the business.- Posted Jul 30, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
By using a celebrity as a Trojan horse, Teach offers an engaging and intimate look at just how complicated and difficult teaching can be at a large, urban public high school. -
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Mike Hale 50
Hit & Miss is so slow and earnest and teachy--several scenes involve Mia's young son exploring his own sexual identity by donning a dress and headband--that much of the show seems to be performed on tiptoe, and a giggle seems like the appropriate response.- Posted Jul 10, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
There are very few series for young adults that deal with race as brazenly and defiantly as "The Boondocks." -
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Ned Martel 60
"Invasion" is a step up from many new offerings on the Sci Fi Channel, but never quite as intricate or engaging as the ABC hit "Lost." -
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Mike Hale 40
Their response is a conventional condensation that sticks to the broad outlines of the book while scrambling characters and events in myriad small ways guaranteed to enrage Dickens purists. -
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Critic Score 70
As might be expected with any Gary David Goldberg product, Spin City is smart stuff. The one-liners zing, Mr. Fox and company are disarming and the 22 minutes flow by effortlessly. The only snag is that concept of spin. Are those who toy with the truth all that funny?- Posted Mar 17, 2013
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Critic Score 80
The supporting cast is very strong--Tony Hale (perhaps best known for "Arrested Development"), in particular, excels as Selina's goofy and limpetlike personal aide--the various internecine plotlines are building well; and no one is allowed to riff uncontrolled.- Posted Apr 20, 2012
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Mike Hale 50
You’d expect the back story of how humanity nearly brings about its own destruction (in only 58 years!) to be serious, but through the three episodes sent to critics Caprica stays on that one note; it hasn’t yet developed enough humor or authentic domestic drama to move beyond the “Galactica” fan base. -
