Philadelphia Daily News' Scores
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For 765 reviews, this publication has graded:
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48% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.8 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average TV Show review score: 63
Highest review score: | Masters of Sex: Season 1 | |
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Lowest review score: | Big Shots: Season 1 |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 426 out of 426
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Mixed: 0 out of 426
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Negative: 0 out of 426
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Murder She Wrote is quality, even if it needs more vinegar and less honey. [28 Sep 1984, p.71]- Philadelphia Daily News
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The show is strong and funny. It portrays a family that lives and loves together in a house filled with mutual respect, but without cloying sentimentality. That's unusual for television. [22 Sep 1982, p.45]- Philadelphia Daily News
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A pilot for this series showed promise, but the premiere is disappointing. Most of the writing is trite and the Walker episode is juvenile -- for that matter, so is Walker. [23 Sep 1977, p.55]- Philadelphia Daily News
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[Mahershala Ali's] take on Hays enhances rather than overwhelms a story intriguing enough to justify the show’s 35-year timeline.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jan 10, 2019
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It’s probably not the best news to hard-core Stephen King fans that I like what I’ve seen of Castle Rock, the J.J. Abrams-produced Hulu series that’s set in one of the fictional Maine towns King has so creepily populated. Because I’m the kind of viewer who tends to like the TV adaptations of King’s stories right up until the moment the otherworldly horror really gets going.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jul 24, 2018
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Adams--as a woman who has pain written all over her--is the best reason to stick with Sharp Objects as it winds its way, sometimes a mite slowly, through twisted mysteries with deep roots.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jul 5, 2018
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Its casting is more diverse, its women more nuanced. Its Robot is amazing. But the story, which I liked better 10 episodes in than I did at the beginning, takes a long time to get off the launchpad.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Apr 13, 2018
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[Seth Meyers] proved to be the right steward for what was, laughs and personal attacks aside, a more earnest than usual evening for the Globes, a show known for its almost-anything-could-happen vibe.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jan 8, 2018
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The pace is occasionally glacial, and there were moments when I was as impatient as the (fictional) Dr. Simon Jordan (Edward Holcroft, Wolf Hall) for Grace to get to the point of her long and twisted tale. Pay attention, though: There will be a payoff. The real attraction is the performances, particularly Gadon’s as the model inmate.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Oct 31, 2017
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If you missed those two, and their more broadly drawn sidekicks, they’re definitely back, and pretty much the way you remember them. ... It may be unfair to expect that series to be groundbreaking. But after all these years, it’s hard not to want a little more than the same old story.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Sep 27, 2017
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Pleasure’s often found in dialogue that has nothing to do with the business at hand.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Sep 6, 2017
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Amazon’s Tycoon is the TV equivalent of a great beach book: a page-turner with larger-than-life characters, set in a glitzy, gossipy world of secrets. I watched the entire season over a few days, mostly because I was having too much fun to stop.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jul 28, 2017
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The acting is good, and Snowfall does these transformations well, but it’s not what supposedly sets it apart. If we’re not going to see more of the before picture--and of the people, like Franklin’s mother, Cissy (Michael Hyatt, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), who are doing their best to keep things together--then what is Snowfall waiting for? Snow, already.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jul 5, 2017
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[Broadchurch's] third and final eight-episode season, ticks all the Brit drama boxes and still manages to stand out from the mysteries some of us can’t get enough of.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jun 27, 2017
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However much it lingers on the dangers that lie just outside the doors of Green Gables, it’s likely to seem tame to viewers brought up on Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. ... Anne’s never been a simple character. McNulty doesn’t play her as one.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted May 9, 2017
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Three episodes in, it looks like Hulu's best original yet. ... Offred's will to survive, and to somehow reclaim her stolen daughter, drives a narrative that might otherwise feel hopeless and that makes The Handmaid's Tale what every serialized show should be: a page-turner.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Apr 21, 2017
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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin are back for 13 more episodes of Netflix's Grace and Frankie, and the third season's the most charming yet.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Apr 5, 2017
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iZombie, inspired by a comic book series, cares as much about its post-life characters as it does its pre-dead ones. And though it may serve up brains in a variety of ways, it never loses its heart.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Apr 3, 2017
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On Trial & Error, the answer a little too often is to lean on the fish-out-of-water moments that Josh encounters in a town full of yokels so clichéd they might have come from a bottle in the writers' room marked Southern Stereotypes: Just Add Water. ... But it's Lithgow, as the hopelessly self-centered, sneakily endearing suspect, who steals every scene he's in.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Mar 14, 2017
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The personal and the policy stuff don't always mesh perfectly, but if adding soap gets a few more people to open their minds, it will be worth it.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Mar 9, 2017
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The third season of ABC's outstanding American Crime manages to sidestep well-worn arguments about immigration and other hot-button topics with a set of compelling, interlocking stories that challenge viewers to see in new ways the people we so often manage not to see at all--migrant workers, teenage prostitutes, and opioid addicts--while giving a voice to others, like family farmers and small business owners, who have reason, too, to feel ignored.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Mar 9, 2017
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As much soapy fun as Bette and Joan has with the pair's over-the-top efforts to one-up each other, it's also a smartly told tale of how sexism, ageism, and the old studio system helped turn two Oscar-winning actresses into bitter enemies.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Mar 2, 2017
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What makes it one of the best shows on television--besides scenes like the last 10 minutes of Tuesday's episode, which are not to be missed--is its ability to show us ourselves as others see us. Dizzying as that view might be, it's as timely as ever.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Mar 2, 2017
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I watch some disturbing things in this job, but I can't remember the last time anything left me as shaken as Time: The Kalief Browder Story.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Mar 1, 2017
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Everyone has secrets, and, yes, lies. And a lot of Big Little Lies, from the to-kill-for ocean views to the kitchens, constitutes affluence porn. But there's honest emotion here, too, as well as small moments, like an unexpected one between Dern and Woodley late in the series, that help Big Little Lies float above the suds of soapy guilty pleasure.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Feb 17, 2017
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The best news about The Good Fight is that it takes a character a lot of us have loved for years and challenges her to be better, and less complacent, than she's ever been--with no guarantee that she'll succeed.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Feb 17, 2017
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I haven't a clue where the rest of the story is going, but I'm prepared to be surprised.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Feb 6, 2017
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At 12 episodes instead of 24, Legacy may be able to avoid some of the more absurd detours that plagued the original, but the formula remains the same: Technology is great, but human ingenuity tops it every time.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Feb 1, 2017
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Though nothing in Training Day, including the partnership of Frank and Kyle, is quite as simple as it first seems, what I saw in three episodes wasn't intriguing enough to make me crave a fourth, or to understand exactly why CBS thought now was the time to glorify the kind of police officer who thinks laws are for other people.- Philadelphia Daily News
- Posted Jan 31, 2017
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