Robert Lloyd

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Los Angeles Times
For 1,100 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Robert Lloyd's Scores

Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paper Girls: Season 1
Lowest review score: 0 I Wanna Marry Harry: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 690 out of 1100
  2. Mixed: 378 out of 1100
  3. Negative: 32 out of 1100
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Lloyd
    Agent Elvis: Season 1
    “Agent Elvis” succeeds more as a curiosity than a comedy, which is to say, I found it only occasionally funny — blood splatter doesn’t do it for me, I confess — but generally interesting, if only to see what scenes and references might turn up next. ... The series looks good, especially in its cartoonification of Elvis, all midcentury swooping lines and angles. (Robert Valley designed the character, and fashion designer John Varvatos received a screen credit for his wardrobe.) McConaughey’s performance, which is more McConaughey than Presley, is like honey on the ear.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Lloyd
    The Night Agent: Season 1
    “The Night Agent” is no worse than workmanlike but, also, workmanlike. It’s nothing special, nothing awful and exactly what many want from television.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    The Academy Awards
    [Kimmel] did a fine job setting the tone for the evening, which ran efficiently, and one might say exuberantly — there was much cheering, many hugs, more than a few tears and a chorus of “Happy Birthday” for “An Irish Goodbye” star James Martin — and with a minimum of the industrial self-congratulation that at its worst can make the Oscars broadcast an argument for the demise of the movies. ... It wasn’t a bad party, all told.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
    Whether or not you buy his theories about how men are, or women are, or what makes a good relationship, or what ails the country, or even accept the premises from which he draws his conclusions, and whether or not this was his finest hour (and eight minutes) of television, Rock remains worth listening to, because there’s nothing casual about what he does, and most important, he knows how to craft and sell a joke. You may laugh even as you’re offended.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    Daisy Jones & The Six
    As a TV series, it’s perfectly fine, in a paradoxically low-wattage, high-intensity way, though it does go on a little long and requires some willful suspension of disbelief.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    Party Down: Season 3
    A revival of a 13-year-old series, it feels full of freshman possibilities, and one hopes it doesn’t end here.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    The Reluctant Traveler: Season 1
    Although the vicarious tourism is part of the appeal — the show looks good and gives an excellent sense of its diverse settings, from Lapland to Lisbon to the Utah desert — it’s best when Levy is most visibly nervous (which is also when he’s at his funniest) or emotionally moved or connecting with locals.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    The Company You Keep (2023): Season 1
    Likable.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    Not Dead Yet: Season 1
    A perfectly pleasant, somewhat nonsensical, attractively peopled supernatural sitcom.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Lloyd
    Poker Face (2023): Season 1
    A work of pure pleasure. ... “Poker Face,” for all its cleverness and modern attitudes, is as straightforward as can be, made simply, and expertly, to be enjoyed — comfort food, not “elevated,” but delicious.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Lloyd
    That '90s Show: Season 1
    But for whatever reason, one never quite emotionally invests in their challenges, as charming as the actors are to watch. Nevertheless, Haverda has an appealing presence, and her castmates (including Andrea Anders as Gwen’s mother, the series’ other adult) have fine comic instincts. ... To anyone interested in a sharper picture of young people in the last years of the last century, let me direct you to Freevee’s lovely “High School.” And “My So-Called Life.”
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    Night Court (2023): Season 1
    [Dan Fielding is] drafted by Abby in the opening episode to be her courtroom’s one and only public defender, which makes no great sense yet suits the whimsical nature of this satisfying show, which successfully realizes the essence, the rhythms, the gentle humor, the gestalt, the Weltanschauung of a 1980s sitcom.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    The Lying Life of Adults: Season 1
    Anyone new to the story will find a well-told tale of more or less ordinary people in not especially extraordinary circumstances, with some exotic scenery — viewers not ready to leave Italy after “The White Lotus” may want to extend their stay here — and striking central performances by Giordana Marengo as main character and narrator Giovanna Trada, and Valeria Golina as her aunt Vittoria.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    George & Tammy: Season 1
    As biopics go, “George & Tammy” is better than most, beautifully acted, nicely filmed, full of music and not lacking for crazy, infamous events. But a series that claims to represent real historical events can lead one to wonder, distractedly, what truly happened and what was embellished or didn’t happen at all. ... For much of the six episodes, you may feel as if you’re watching a riff on “A Star Is Born.”
    • 70 Metascore
    • 90 Robert Lloyd
    Willow: Season 1
    The series goes to more, and more interesting, places, with fuller characterizations, less predictable plot lines and sharper jokes. The movie was vaguely humorous, but the series is legitimately a comedy between, and often during, the scenes of suspense and violence. ... Everyone pulls their weight. Sequels are often a matter of diminishing returns, but “Willow” pays dividends.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Lloyd
    The Santa Clauses (2022): Season 1
    Though it’s thin in characterization and obvious in the emotional beats — sort of the point in a work like this, anyway — it’s a respectable, fairly amusing holiday entertainment for anyone who would like to start their Christmas now.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    Tulsa King: Season 1
    The show is at its best when it steps away from the criminal plotlines and lets Dwight, who expresses some regret over his career path, show his softer side.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Lloyd
    Mammals: Season 1
    It is uncomfortably like a play, with episodes of speechifying and dialogue that sound more constructed than natural. ... One can imagine some version of this working just fine on the stage — and “Jerusalem” is longer than the whole of “Mammals” — but as television it wears a patina of inauthenticity. ... I’m sure many will find the series, directed by Stephanie Laing, compelling. Presented in cinematic widescreen, it is fundamentally an intelligent, adult entertainment, not without ideas.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Lloyd
    Lopez vs. Lopez: Season 1
    The opening episode of "Lopez vs. Lopez" feels a little strained, especially given how hard the laugh track is working to convince you that the show is hilarious, a hit from get-go. But as one would expect, the second episode (of two available for review) is more relaxed, even as the hijinks are more hectic. It's a decent, pro job.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    The White Lotus: Season 2
    For all the goings on, the first five episodes don’t exactly build up a narrative head of steam. It’s hard to tell where any of these stories are heading, or if they’re heading anywhere. That’s not a criticism, exactly; it’s easy enough to hang out here, with the actors and the scenery, and the series is not without a subtle sort of movement.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Robert Lloyd
    From Scratch: Season 1
    An expensive, well-acted, nicely written, very long Lifetime/Hallmark movie. ... The narrative turns somehow feel at once twisty and predictable. Still, this is what some people come for, and they will perhaps feel it as abundance, rather than punishment. (That said, “From Scratch” might be best watched not as a binge, but with some recovery time between episodes.)
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    Inside Amy Schumer: Season 5
    Fans will find the same puckish feminist flavor as before, with perhaps a few more politically pointed punchlines. (Not surprising, given the times.) These can seem a little obvious. ... At its best, Schumer’s work goes off on unexpected tangents. ... The sketches are accompanied less effectively by short “behind the scenes” comments from Schumer and her team.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    Documentary Now!: Season 4
    While full of specific references, each episode is dramatically coherent and unerringly funny in its own right.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    Magpie Murders: Season 1
    It’s a tightly plotted, handsomely presented, smartly acted, entirely enjoyable and structurally unusual piece.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Robert Lloyd
    Fire Country: Season 1
    “Fire Country” is too much of a piece with other shows of its ilk to feel new and exciting, but that ilk — the prime-time, location-based action-soap — has made hay for decades.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    Alaska Daily: Season 1
    Had it been made as an HBO miniseries, to which the subject would easily lend itself, it would be a different thing entirely, somber and atmospheric and cinematic. As a network series, it is something broader, more immediate, less subtle. TV not as cinema but as television, an Arctic Circle “Lou Grant.” Gestures are bigger, speeches are speechier, the workplace quirkier.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    Let the Right One In: Season 1
    The show is most interesting when the kids are at the center; each has what the other needs. Foreman and Baez are genuine and touching, and it’s easy to invest in their story, with fingers crossed for a good outcome.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    Interview With the Vampire: Season 1
    More of a historical romantic melodrama than a profound tragedy — not a sin and more likely to draw viewers back — it’s well-made with some fine performances and evocative locations. There is as much domestic drama as there is vampire business, and the series has a welcome comic edge, especially once Claudia joins the family.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Robert Lloyd
    Reginald the Vampire: Season 1
    Feels like a kind of tonal companion piece to Syfy’s great “Resident Alien,” with its winning combination of comedy, suspense, likable characters and real feeling.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Robert Lloyd
    Entergalactic: Season 1
    It plays like a feature, a sweet, corny and fairly adorable rom-com, temperamentally old-fashioned but made newfangled by virtue of being animated and the musical tie-in. ... If the characters do at times exhibit the expressiveness of the Sims, it’s visually appealing overall, with smart camera angles and framing and well-limned details.
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