Rotten Tomatoes starts reviewing television shows

Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by Dream, Sep 19, 2013.

  1. Dream

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    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/hub/tv-zone

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1928345/news/1928345/

    Great! Now we have a convenient place with critics telling us what is good or bad tv, without us needing to watch a single episode! Just like RT is already doing for movies! :lol:
     
  2. Harvey

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    Useful, to a point, but Metacritic's television coverage has the same problem that Rotten Tomatoes will have: it has no way to consider the best television criticism on the web (at places like the A.V. Club) which evaluate programs on an episode-by-episode basis, not from a handful of screener episodes early in the season.

    Some shows falter early on in a season only to come together as the makers figure out how to get it right; others fall to pieces after early success. By this measure, Rotten Tomatoes (like Metacritic) will declare the former failures and the latter successes. That's about as useful as an aggregate site which uses reviews that only cover the first 30 minutes of a movie.
     
  3. bigdaddy

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    ^ Yes, The Neighbors had a horrible pilot, but the rest of the first season was amazing, and reviews don't really get that.
     
  4. Dream

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    What are you talking about? 48% is pretty good! ;)