Monday, October 16, 2017

The 20 most notable new TV shows this fall, ranked from worst to best

1. "Big Mouth" — Netflix

1. "Big Mouth" — Netflix

Critic score: 100%

Audience score: 81%

Description: Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty.

2. "American Vandal" — Netflix

2. "American Vandal" — Netflix

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 92%

Description: A true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images.

3. "The Deuce" — HBO

3. "The Deuce" — HBO

Critic score: 91%

Audience score: 80%

Description: A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan.

4. "The Mayor" — ABC

4. "The Mayor" — ABC

Critic score: 88%

Audience score: 64%

Description: A struggling hip-hop artist runs for mayor to promote his mixtape and wins the election.

5. "Star Trek: Discovery" — CBS All Access

5. "Star Trek: Discovery" — CBS All Access

Critic score: 86%

Audience score: 60%

Description: Ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, the USS Discovery discovers new worlds and lifeforms as one Starfleet officer learns to understand all things alien.

6. "The Gifted" — Fox

6. "The Gifted" — Fox

Critic score: 76%

Audience score: 79%

Description: In a world where mutated humans are treated with distrust and fear, an institute for mutants battles to achieve peaceful co-existence with humanity.

7. "Young Sheldon" — CBS

7. "Young Sheldon" — CBS

Critic score: 75%

Audience score: 61%

Description: The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in "The Big Bang Theory" (2007).

8. "Ghosted" — Fox

8. "Ghosted" — Fox

Critic score: 74%

Audience score: 75%

Description: A skeptic is forced to work with a firm believer of the paranormal on unexplained occurrences in Los Angeles.

9. "Seal Team" — CBS

9. "Seal Team" — CBS

Critic score: 71%

Audience score: 67%

Description: The lives of the elite Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions our country can ask.

10. "Kevin (Probably) Saves the World" — ABC

10. "Kevin (Probably) Saves the World" — ABC

Critic score: 68%

Audience score: 93%

Description: Kevin, a down-on-his-luck man, is tasked by God with a mission to save the world.

11. "Law & Order: True Crime - The Menendez Brothers" — NBC

11. "Law & Order: True Crime - The Menendez Brothers" — NBC

Critic score: 65%

Audience score: 100%

Description: When the Menendez brothers were tried on national TV for brutally killing their parents in Beverly Hills, their story became a national obsession. Now, the first edition of this anthology series delves into the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the trial and unveiling the shocking truth of what really went down when the cameras stopped rolling.

12. "Ten Days in the Valley" — ABC

12. "Ten Days in the Valley" — ABC

Critic score: 64%

Audience score: 80%

Description: An overworked television producer and single mother is in the middle of a fractious separation when her young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. Both her world and her controversial police series implode.

13. "Me, Myself & I" — CBS

13. "Me, Myself & I" — CBS

Critic score: 62%

Audience score: 80%

Description: A comedy examines one man's life over a 50-year span. It explores three distinct periods in his life - as a 14-year-old in 1991, a 40-year-old in present day and a 65-year-old in 2042.

14. "Dynasty" — The CW

14. "Dynasty" — The CW

Critic score: 50%

Audience score: 85%

Description: Follows two of America's wealthiest families as they feud for control over their fortune and their children.

15. "The Good Doctor" — ABC

15. "The Good Doctor" — ABC

Critic score: 37%

Audience score: 89%

Description: Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and Savant syndrome, is recruited into the pediatric surgical unit of a prestigious hospital.

16. "Valor" — The CW

16. "Valor" — The CW

Critic score: 31%

Audience score: 21%

Description: The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.

17. "Wisdom of the Crowd" — CBS

17. "Wisdom of the Crowd" — CBS

Critic score: 27%

Audience score: 83%

Description: A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.

18. "The Orville" — Fox

18. "The Orville" — Fox

Critic score: 20%

Audience score: 91%

Description: "The Orville" follows the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

19. "9JKL" — CBS

19. "9JKL" — CBS

Critic score: 17%

Audience score: 16%

Description: "9JKL" follows a time in Mark Feuerstein's adult life when he lived in apartment 9K in the building he grew up in, sandwiched between his parents' apartment, 9J, and his brother, sister-in-law, and their baby's apartment, 9L, and his attempts to set boundaries with his intrusive, but well-meaning family.

20. "Marvel's Inhumans" — ABC

20. "Marvel's Inhumans" — ABC

Critic score: 8%

Audience score: 51%

Description: An isolated community of super humans fight to protect themselves.


Source: Business Insider India