Deseret News' Scores
- TV
For 130 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.4 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 64
Highest review score: | Murder One: Season 2 | |
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Lowest review score: | High Society: Season 1 |
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This is a drama about a family — the Pryors of Philadelphia — that's actually interesting for viewers' entire families.- Deseret News
- Posted Mar 25, 2022
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The show could turn out to be one of those guilty pleasures like the early years of Dynasty or Melrose Place — a show that's fun because it is so melodramatic and dumb.- Deseret News
- Posted Mar 17, 2022
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The new, two-part movie is definitely worse than the original. It's just not particularly scary. Which is a problem for what's supposed to be a horror film.- Deseret News
- Posted May 14, 2021
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There are some fabulous pyrotechnics in the Sci Fi Channel's miniseries Firestarter: Rekindled, but they could have been put to better use. Like incinerating the dreadful script, for which writer Philip Eisner should be burned at the stake. Or, failing that, simply tossing the film footage into the flames and destroying this abomination before it got out and embarrassed everyone involved. With the possible exception of acting and direction so bad they're unintentionally funny, there's absolutely nothing of redeeming value in "Rekindled" whatsoever. [8 March 2002]- Deseret News
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But he has created a creepy tale that anyone who enjoys being scared — without being totally grossed out — will enjoy.- Deseret News
- Posted May 12, 2021
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Ultimately, "Storm of the Century" becomes rather predictable. [14 Feb 1999]- Deseret News
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If Stephen King had written "The Twilight Zone," it would have looked like this. This eight-part anthology — two hourlong episodes each Wednesday for four weeks — adapts eight King stories for TV with pretty good results.- Deseret News
- Posted May 3, 2021
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The Tommyknockers' biggest problem is that it's just too long. This would have been a much better movie if it had been cut by at least a quarter - and perhaps as much as a half.- Deseret News
- Posted Apr 23, 2021
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The cast, on the whole, creates believable characters in an unbelievable situation. (Pinchot is the exception - too much of his comic persona leaks through and undermines the maniac he's trying to create.)- Deseret News
- Posted Apr 19, 2021
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If you sit through it, you're not going to be counting the hours until next week's episode.- Deseret News
- Posted Apr 13, 2021
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It's tough for anything to succeed on Saturday night, and this show may be too uneven to hold up for long. But it has possibilities, so let's hope ABC sticks with it for a while.- Deseret News
- Posted Apr 16, 2020
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But this outstanding drama...takes the most horrible of situations and turns it into an intelligent, entertaining, strongly pro-family series.- Deseret News
- Posted Jan 8, 2020
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Falcone, while not perfect, is an engaging series that CBS is running as a miniseries- Deseret News
- Posted Dec 16, 2019
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The Beat is certainly a leap up from most of what UPN airs. [20 March 2000]- Deseret News
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Nearly unwatchable -- a dreadful rehash of old sitcom jokes that are, at best, lame and, at worst, offensive.- Deseret News
- Posted Nov 24, 2019
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Quite frankly, it's just about the most unpleasant half hour as NBC has cooked up in quite some time. It's not just that it's not funny -- which it's not -- but Perkins' character in particular and the show in general are just plain unpleasant.- Deseret News
- Posted Nov 21, 2019
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Whether The Others turns out to be a great series remains to be seen. It is, at least, an intriguing one with possibilities.- Deseret News
- Posted Nov 20, 2019
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The best thing to hit TV this season. [1 Apr 1998, p.C1]- Deseret News
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Sort of "Back to the Future" by way of "thirtysomething" -- a derivative, annoying drama with a time-travel conceit. [27 Sept 2002, p.C08]- Deseret News
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Hurrah for diversity! If only this were a show that was actually worth watching. [19 Sept 2003, p.C01]- Deseret News
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It's relatively entertaining, but the content is more than a bit rough for its 7 p.m. time slot.- Deseret News
- Posted Aug 17, 2015
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From the looks of the pilot, it doesn't look like anything to get excited about. [15 Sept 1998]- Deseret News
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A violent, confusing and ultimately unsatisfying journey to the dark side. [8 Oct 1999, p.C08]- Deseret News
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A silly bit of fluff, complete with low-tech special effects and silly sight gags. But that's exactly what it's intended to be. [27 Sept 1996, p.3]- Deseret News
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I hate this show...This is an awful, awful show. [24 Sept 2002, p.C08]- Deseret News
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Crossing is excellent drama, strongly written and well-acted. The big question, however, is whether it will remain as unremittingly serious as tonight's pilot episode -- which might make it a bit heavy for weekly viewing. [10 Oct 2000, p.C07]- Deseret News
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It's all rather dull. Which might be remedied. Maybe. [4 Oct 2003, p.E08]- Deseret News
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If all teenage boys think about is sex, sex and more sex, then the producers and writers of "life as we know it" have captured the teenage boy perfectly.- Deseret News
- Posted Aug 7, 2014
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"The Chronicle" is more a goof than a scare. [12 Jul 2001]- Deseret News
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