GoodKiwi is not a fence-sitter. You can readily tell where he stands on just about any TV series. Take for example ... the above rating.
His no-holds barred approach as a TV show critic, are well known in HF entertainment industry threads.
The depiction on the right page, above, that looks like some kind of dial meter? It recently appeared in the above industry mag as a folding page spread.
Luckily, we were able to reproduce it here:
The dial identifies the various thresholds that assist in the initial decision-making as to whether a series is worth investing time. Anything over 4 episodes in a series, is at risk of being ignored or getting terminated early. Other factors then come into play, such as screenplay, performance, country of origin of the series, etc. However, everything starts with the above meter reading.
And now, we return you to our regular in-thread programming.