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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Ed Bark 91
The real joys of Smash are its performances and production numbers, some fantasized, others part of the bare bones auditioning process.- Posted Feb 3, 2012
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Ed Bark 91
Grammer's performance is thoroughly engaging and convincing. And the events swirling around him never fail to snap, crackle and pop.- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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Ed Bark 91
Vietnam In HD is vivid and compelling without being intrinsically political.- Posted Nov 9, 2011
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Ed Bark 91
Comedy Central's The Daily Show at last has a worthy rival in the "fake news" game.- Posted Jan 26, 2011
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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
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 83
Although Buscemi remains firmly in charge of this lead role, he's not the most interesting principal anymore. That pendulum swings to his wife of convenience, Margaret Schoeder (Kelly Macdonald).- Posted Sep 14, 2012
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Ed Bark 100
Watch at whatever pace you'd like--immediately. Given its quality, I think you'll be drinking it all in sooner rather than later.- Posted Feb 6, 2013
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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
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 75
What we have so far is a sturdy cops/crooks/corruption series that falls short of The Shield but is certainly capable of someday earning its own stripes.- Posted Feb 7, 2011
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Ed Bark 75
His [Kelsey Grammer's] center-ring performance pulls Boss along even when it gets bogged down. The supporting actors likewise are all capable, although Grammer's glower clearly is the series' tower of power.- Posted Aug 16, 2012
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Ed Bark 100
It's HBO's most mature half-hour series ever, rising above the material worlds of Sex and the City and Entourage to offer a road worth taking in pursuit of a "higher self."- Posted Oct 7, 2011
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Ed Bark 83
You should give Luck a chance to slowly pay off. It proudly depicts a gritty/picturesque world that the ABC Family channel's Wildfire only airbrushed during its 2005-08 run.- Posted Jan 27, 2012
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Ed Bark 75
It packs some punch, though. And Isaacs certainly doesn't sleepwalker through a decidedly distinctive role.- Posted Feb 28, 2012
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Ed Bark 83
Living in the Material World falls short of Scorsese's terrific two-part PBS film, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan.- Posted Oct 7, 2011
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Ed Bark 75
Wild Things is very nicely shot and buoyed throughout by its star's upbeat persona.- Posted Jan 22, 2013
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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 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
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 91
In the end, fans of well-paced political potboilers will find much to like about Game Change. As will those who simply want to be entertained by a crackling good melodrama.- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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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 91
[A] very amusing and splendidly acted comedy about what happens when an American television network mucks up a long-running, award-laden British hit.- Posted Jan 9, 2011
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Ed Bark 58
Although affecting at times, Parade's End tends to congeal rather than gel.- Posted Feb 26, 2013
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Ed Bark 75
The end result is funny in spots, overly gross in others and upbeat in Rescue Me's typically offbeat fashion.- Posted Sep 6, 2011
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Ed Bark 58
Thursday's series premiere ends up being watchable but not really something to phone your friends about.- Posted Sep 24, 2012
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Ed Bark 67
Arrow may not be a-point-ment television. But for starters at least, it's a sharper little tale than expected.- Posted Oct 8, 2012
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Ed Bark 83
Dear Mom, Love Cher is both a pleasant and evocative way to spend an hour.- Posted May 3, 2013
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Ed Bark 75
Ripper Street is pretty ripping good for the most part.- Posted Jan 18, 2013
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