Decider's Scores
- TV
For 445 reviews, this publication has graded:
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50% higher than the average critic
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14% same as the average critic
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36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.5 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 69
Highest review score: | Legendary: Season 1 | |
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Lowest review score: | Call Your Mother: Season 1 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 314 out of 314
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Mixed: 0 out of 314
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Negative: 0 out of 314
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Joel Keller
Murder Among The Mormons is a fascinating look at some of the inner workings of the Mormon Church, even if the filmmakers were more interested in the story around the document trade than the church itself.- Decider
- Posted Mar 3, 2021
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Joel Keller
We like Tucker and Steele’s chemistry and there’s potential for the stories of the week to strongly support the greater mystery as the season goes forward. But it could also collapse under its own weight. At this point, we’re just not sure which way it’ll go.- Decider
- Posted Mar 1, 2021
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Joel Keller
Sure, the new Punky Brewster is still a sitcom aimed at younger viewers. But it’s got a warmth and sweetness to it that feel genuine. And it’s smart enough to deal with Punky as she is now, not trying to make her into some grown-up version of her 8-year-old self.- Decider
- Posted Feb 25, 2021
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Joel Keller
There were some very funny moments, but they mostly involved the supporting characters (more on that in a moment). The connection between Ginny and Georgia (and, we guess Austin, but he’s just stuck in cute-kid-land for the entire first episode) needs to be warmer and stronger for us to completely buy in.- Decider
- Posted Feb 24, 2021
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Joel Keller
Assembly Required is a fun competition show, though it lacks some of the detail that the truly mechanically-inclined might want to see. But it’s made more fun by the presence of Allen and Karn.- Decider
- Posted Feb 23, 2021
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Joel Keller
It doesn’t look like it’s going to follow the traditional path that other Superman series have, and that’s just fine with us. Just as we like seeing Clark and Lois as harried parents, we’re also happy to see Superman battle some different enemies for a change.- Decider
- Posted Feb 23, 2021
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Joel Keller
Even though Beartown takes its first episode to set things up, it does a lot of showing instead of giving a lot of exposition. That’s a good sign that the series will make for a well-paced drama.- Decider
- Posted Feb 22, 2021
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Allen v. Farrow is a fascinating deep dive into a case that has been all over the news media for almost 30 years now, even if it’s admittedly a one-sided account.- Decider
- Posted Feb 22, 2021
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Devil May Care is a funny commentary on social media, religion and people’s views of Hell.- Decider
- Posted Feb 22, 2021
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Tell Me Your Secrets is a bleak show that withholds information in order to ramp up the mystery, but to the detriment of a coherent story.- Decider
- Posted Feb 19, 2021
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Joel Keller
It’s A Sin is an emotionally resonant look at how the young gay community in London lived their lives with the constant threat of AIDS over their heads. The cast has great chemistry with each other, which will help strengthen their stories.- Decider
- Posted Feb 18, 2021
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Despite its flaws, Amend: The Fight For America is a very informative docuseries about a piece of our Constitution that is the most misunderstood and overlooked, especially given its importance to how we live our lives in the U.S.- Decider
- Posted Feb 17, 2021
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Joel Keller
The way that Lightfoot has led the viewers down this path is intriguing.- Decider
- Posted Feb 17, 2021
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Joel Keller
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song is a well-paced, well-researched look into how impactful religion in the Black community has been, stretching back to the earliest days of our country’s history.- Decider
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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Joel Keller
Kenan Thompson makes for a strong center to what looks like will be a warm family sitcom. It has some pacing issues, but by the end of the first episode, we were confident that they would be smoothed out.- Decider
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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Joel Keller
Young Rock starts off well and it feels like it’ll settle in to a nice family vibe once it gets into a groove with its format. And as much as we like Johnson, it will get even better when we see less of The Rock.- Decider
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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Joel Keller
In trying to make this sprawling narrative TV-friendly, a narrative momentum has been lost, with too many characters and too many timelines and situations going on at the same time. The three leads, Patel, Hewson and Green, all do good jobs with their roles, but the show just feels like it’s going to wander in the wilderness like the delirious Anna before it figures out where to go.- Decider
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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While we saw some flashes of that potential in the first episode, we’re not sure how hard the show will strive to take advantage of those flashes.- Decider
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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Joel Keller
We liked Men In Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham because Heughan and McTavish aren’t trying to be brotastic or outshine each other. They’re two buddies on a roadtrip — albeit a bit of an overscripted one — and that comes across well on the show.- Decider
- Posted Feb 16, 2021
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Hip Hop Uncovered has found a great angle to make the history of hip hop fresh again. It doesn’t hurt that the filmmakers get perspectives from so many big names about the history of the genre and the power brokers who made it work behind the scenes.- Decider
- Posted Feb 12, 2021
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Nadiya Bakes is a soothing, scrumptious balm (especially these days), and reminds us why we fell in love with Nadiya during her Bake Off days years ago.- Decider
- Posted Feb 12, 2021
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Meghan O'Keefe
Clarice, the character, has been turned into a quivering mess, and Clarice, the show, makes the fatal mistake of thinking that Clarice’s trauma is the most interesting thing about her. ... The real problem with CBS’s version of Clarice stems from the writing. ... While Episodes 2 and 3 show promising signs of Clarice using her investigative skills, that’s all undermined by scenes where supporting characters can get her to unravel with a few mundane questions.- Decider
- Posted Feb 11, 2021
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Joel Keller
The scripted visuals here fill things in quite well because Berlinger keeps them weird and odd, like the hotel itself. ... Considering the complexities of the Lam case, plus the Cecil Hotel’s history, no one can claim that Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel is padded out. We’re actually wondering how they’ll cover everything in 4 episodes.- Decider
- Posted Feb 10, 2021
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Latifah’s empathetic performance makes The Equalizer extremely watchable, as does the rest of the cast. We just hope that the cases Robyn McCall gets get better as the season goes on.- Decider
- Posted Feb 8, 2021
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Joel Keller
Your enjoyment of the series will depend on if you want to go on that ride with Johan and his crew, as well as watch the flashbacks that Maggie reports to Johan. We thought the first episode moved along well; despite the fact that we didn’t really get to know the group of Winterers very well, aside from Arthur, Maggie and Annika.- Decider
- Posted Feb 5, 2021
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Lea Palmieri
This doc can and should inspire many important conversations across the legal, music, and media industries. Framing Britney Spears is entertaining to watch, but even more than that, it is shocking and hopefully motivating.- Decider
- Posted Feb 5, 2021
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Joel Keller
While The Snoopy Show isn’t the Peanuts comeback some diehard fans might want, it’s still fun to watch Snoopy, Woodstock and the gang hang out together, even if the episodes are more kid oriented than usual.- Decider
- Posted Feb 5, 2021
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Joel Keller
The Long Song hinges on the relationship between July and Caroline, and both Lawrence and Atwell’s performances meet this challenge. Atwell is terrific as the benign but awful Caroline, and Lawrence matches her as the whip-smart July.- Decider
- Posted Feb 2, 2021
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Despite the fact that there are some very funny and weirdly satisfying aspects of Fake Famous, it somehow seems incomplete. ... Instead of trying to find new people willing to go with the experiment, he essentially concentrated on Dominique leaning into the experience. Yes, the social experiment still worked, but we would have liked to have seen more examples of it working than just a single person.- Decider
- Posted Feb 2, 2021
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Meghan O'Keefe
Even if melodrama isn’t your thing, you have to bow down to these performances. Netflix Firefly Lane is irresistibly addictive, even for the hardest of hearts — even if it definitely falls into the predictable pitfalls of the genre.- Decider
- Posted Feb 1, 2021
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