Idea for a web site: Wiki Episode Reviews

[Gaith]

One thing that's often struck me about this TV-on-DVD age is how tough it can be to find episode-by-ep reviews for shows. Sure, Wikipedia has some for those with the most obsessed fan bases, but those are professional/notable reviews, thus only covering a minority of stuff.

I'd love to see a Wiki-like site where not only can professional reviews be linked to, but personal reviews can be submitted also, and people can easily follow certain users as they go through certain shows for consistency, without having to find new sites/blog reviews/message board threads every time you start/consider watching a new ep/series/whatever. There'd also be members-only rating voting, and opportunities to do season-overview essays. Good grammar and coherent thoughts would be required for users' submissions to go live.

Basically, an ep-by-ep IMDB , with the visual simplicity of Wikipedia. Anyone else mused along these lines?

 

[Harvey]

Hell, I'd be happy with a site like Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes that only covers professional episode-by-episode television criticism. Metacritic assigns a number grade to an entire season based on one review (usually, of only the first few episodes of a season) and has a too-limited reviewer base.

 

[Gaith]

Yeah, I'd love for TV eps to get same sort of extensive and diverse media coverage as sports, but that just ain't happening.

 

[Jono]

What about TV.com? I not sure if they list professional reviews though.

 

[Canadave]

What about TV.com? I not sure if they list professional reviews though.

TV.com is terrible. The content is all right, but if you're watching an older show, to navigate the episode guide is an exercise in spoiler avoidance. The guides show the newest season first, with the newest episodes at the top, with a brief synopsis, so you can't read anything without risking getting spoiled.