Uncle Barky's Scores
- TV
For 274 reviews, this publication has graded:
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63% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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35% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 64
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 151 out of 151
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Mixed: 0 out of 151
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Negative: 0 out of 151
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- Posted Mar 30, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
Authentically grimy, solidly built and well-paced, Hatfields & McCoys is violent without being gratuitous.- Posted May 25, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
It's a thoroughly entertaining romp, with the television industry as a combination Tilt-A-Whirl/merry-go-round.- Posted Jun 29, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
It's both a promising and foreboding series, with class warfare an ever-present force that wants no part of any idealized forms of truth, justice and the American way.- Posted Aug 20, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
The first two hours of Last Resort are bracingly strong on pulling power.- Posted Sep 25, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
References to Beyonce and Michelle Obama are worked in without reaching too hard. And the "black experience," although hardly monolithic, resonates in ways that make this version quite special and different.- Posted Oct 5, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
No cameras were allowed for this [interviews with the band], making it sometimes difficult to decipher just who's talking during the otherwise brilliantly edited archival footage assembled by filmmaker Brett Morgen- Posted Nov 16, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
Through it all, though, Downton Abbey is still superior entertainment on a grand scale.- Posted Jan 7, 2013
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Ed Bark 91
Girls above all is about uncomfortable creatures. That can be a helluva thing to watch at times. But still very see-worthy.- Posted Jan 11, 2013
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Ed Bark 91
It's coarse and sometimes dirty to the touch, but pretty damned hilarious at crunch times. FX just might have the standout new comedy series of this season.- Posted Jan 16, 2013
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Ed Bark 91
The Americans enthralls with its complexities, simplicities and overall derring-do.- Posted Jan 28, 2013
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Ed Bark 91
It's the strongest medical series since House arrived on Fox for an eight-season run that ended last spring. The genre badly needs a transfusion. And at last, here's a strong one.- Posted Jan 31, 2013
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Ed Bark 91
Vikings enthrallingly captures the world of Norsemen and oarsmen, circa 793 in the Eastern Baltic but soon heading West to England.- Posted Mar 1, 2013
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- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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Ed Bark 91
HBO subscribers thereby are the beneficiaries of a film with star power and staying power. It won’t surprise you with its outcome--or for the most part, how it gets there. But it may well have more of an impact than anticipated.- Posted Apr 17, 2013
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Ed Bark 91
Maron, 49, seems to be effortlessly gliding through his angst, laughing only rarely while giving viewers far more reason to do so.- Posted May 2, 2013
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- Posted May 9, 2013
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Ed Bark 83
It's FX scoring again with another out of the box, jump-in-your-face series that most assuredly isn't for everyone but most definitely knows what it's doing.- Posted Feb 3, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Coal has the right stuff, putting viewers of a mind to hurt for these men--who hurt right back.- Posted Mar 30, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Happy Endings quickly gets its game in gear and emerges as ABC's best new sitcom since Better Off Ted unfortunately failed to find an audience.- Posted Apr 12, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Cinema Verite's strength is in dramatizing the off-camera seductions and betrayals that led to the Louds being vilified in many quarters before the entire family went on The Dick Cavett Show to both tell their side of the story and confront filmmaker Craig Gilbert.- Posted Apr 21, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Too Big to Fail effectively follows the money while humanizing most of the moneychangers.- Posted May 20, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
A smart, sedate Canadian production imported by ABC for a summertime run.- Posted Jun 21, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
The thrill of discovery is long gone for True Blood. But the thrill of a new season is still very much in play. The first three episode of Season 4 had just enough pulling power to keep me in the fold.- Posted Jun 22, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Entourage looks as though it still has enough juice--comedy, drama and Drama-wise--to make its last season a keeper.- Posted Jul 21, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Kurt Sutter, SOA's creative mastermind, has kept the scripts tight and the action invigorating.- Posted Sep 6, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Despite its lead characters' fragile makeups, Free Agents is a niftily scripted, bracingly grownup comedy when in the hands of its two leads.- Posted Sep 13, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
Fox seems to be on the right track, though, with a lead character who has ample potential to gawkily bloom and grow.- Posted Sep 19, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
It all makes for a promising start on a network whose best comedies invariably wind up on Thursday nights. Whitney is already there, and looks as though it just might belong.- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
The best new crime drama of the fall season doesn't necessarily have to be an original idea. It just has to have the right people in place.- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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