For 920 reviews, this publication has graded:
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52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics.
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Average TV Show review score: 59
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Carrie is hard to like, but Homeland is almost impossible to resist.- Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Lena Dunham's much anticipated comedy about four single women in New York is worth all the fuss, even though it invites comparisons to Carrie Bradshaw and friends, and even though it incites a lot of dreary debate about the demise of feminism.- Posted Apr 12, 2012
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Mike Hale 90
Oh My God, taped in February, is a crackerjack show, a polished, manifestly professional performance that couldn’t be more different in tone from “Louie.”- Posted Apr 12, 2013
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Caryn James 90
Though the show happens to be about sports, it works even better as a shrewd sendup of the culture of money, hype and celebrity.- Posted Jun 16, 2013
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Caryn James 80
Oz can also be unpleasant to watch, it is so gruesome and claustrophobic. Yet over the first few weeks, as the series moves beyond its introductory shock value, it becomes more serious, disturbing and gripping.- Posted May 15, 2013
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Critic Score 80
The appeal of this new sitcom, which Fox is unveiling tomorrow night, is its universal heart.- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Caryn James 80
With her clear-eyed gaze and Pre-Raphaelite hair, Felicity (Keri Russell) is immensely likable yet down to earth as she struggles to stand up for herself. Ms. Russell's sincerity and naturalness take the curse off the series' calculated, prepackaged feel.- Posted Mar 16, 2013
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Anita Gates 80
When was the last time a series started off with nine complicated, well-developed characters, not including the colorful faculty? [29 Sept 1999, p.E8]Posted Jun 19, 2013 -
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Caryn James 80
Each slight, breezy half-hour is fresh and funny.- Posted Apr 9, 2013
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Critic Score 80
In the first two episodes, Scrubs quickly achieves a breezy comic rhythm. Like ''Spin City'' this show operates with deliberate artifice but enough warmth to bring humanity to the characters.- Posted Mar 20, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Both “Bored to Death” and Curb Your Enthusiasm have heroes who are hell-bent on doing the impossible and are doomed to fail. And it’s impossible not to prefer them just as they are. -
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Caryn James 80
The real-time approach can't seem as innovative the second time around, but it is still used to great effect ... The glaring weak spot is Jack's teenage daughter, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert). [29 Oct 2002]Posted Jun 18, 2013 -
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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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Alessandra Stanley 80
Even in its sixth season, “24” remains remarkably compelling. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The final season of The Wire is committed to proving him wrong; by leaving nothing out it offers viewers as close a chance as anyone can get to everything. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
As it lurches to its conclusion, the politics of "Deadwood" keep growing more dense and colorful, and that magnificent obsession crowds out other primal forces. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Purists may be irritated by the pilfering of James Dean's classic film "Rebel Without a Cause," including, in the show's second episode, an entire plot line in which Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) runs away and plays house with Marissa and another young friend in the unfinished model house of a new development. Yet the empty swimming pool, used by the boys as a skateboarding rink, is a rather amusing homage to that 1955 movie by Nicholas Ray.- Posted May 6, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The Bluth heirs are eccentric and warped, but they are not hothouse child prodigies like the Tenenbaum siblings. They are nouveau riche misfits, the Ewings of "Dallas" as seen by Bunuel. And they are quite amusing.- Posted May 26, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
One weakness in the show is that each character has a showoff story line that splinters the narrative rather than unites it. And sometimes the hyper-arch tone gets a little tiresome. But only sometimes. Mostly, a talented cast and funny, imaginative writing make each episode a pleasure. Arrested Development is watched by critics, but it deserves a bigger, perhaps better audience.- Posted May 26, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
On "State of Play" and Prime Suspect, ordinary men and women take center stage and hold it beautifully. [16 Apr 2004, p.E1]Posted Dec 7, 2011 -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The multitude of exegeses and theories devoted to major plot twists and minor details attest to the series’s enduring egghead appeal. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
What is implied elsewhere is confronted aggressively in the terrifically restive FX drama Rescue Me. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
In this age of "Desperate Housewives" and "The O.C.," it is refreshing to see a television show whose heroines aspire to meaningful work as well as meaningless sex.- Posted Feb 20, 2013
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The current season, exquisitely plotted so far, deals in part with the repercussions of outing. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Though the setting has shifted from New York to Los Angeles, the look and feel of the show are essentially unchanged, with Heidi Klum and her Valkyrie manner still doing the hosting and Tim Gunn continuing to bring an Oxford don’s comportment to his sartorial mentoring. -
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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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Alessandra Stanley 80
"Entourage" is as good as ever in its third season, yet somehow different. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
"Prison Break"... is more intriguing than most of the new network series, and it certainly is one of the most original. -
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