scorecardThe worst TV show of 2018 on each network - from Fox to Netflix to HBO
  1. Home
  2. slideshows
  3. miscellaneous
  4. The worst TV show of 2018 on each network - from Fox to Netflix to HBO

The worst TV show of 2018 on each network - from Fox to Netflix to HBO

ABC: "Splitting Up Together" (Season 1)

The worst TV show of 2018 on each network - from Fox to Netflix to HBO

AMC: "McMafia" (Season 1)

AMC: "McMafia" (Season 1)

Critic score: 69%

Audience score: 85%

Summary: "A multi-generational epic telling of the story of America's birth as a superpower through the bloody rise and fall of one Texas oil empire."

What critics said: "Simmering moral conflict within Alex is meant to create the hub of tension around which McMafia revolves, but that pot doesn't quite boil down as the writers may have intended." — Salon

Status: Renewed

CBS: "Instinct" (Season 1)

CBS: "Instinct" (Season 1)

Critic score: 57%

Audience score: 59%

Summary: "Stars Alan Cumming as a former CIA operative who is lured back to his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer."

What critics said: "For a hardened CIA operative, Cumming's Dylan is more Pee Wee Herman than Homeland." — Boston Herald

Status: Pending

The CW: "Life Sentence" (Season 1)

The CW: "Life Sentence" (Season 1)

Critic score: 37%

Audience score: 77%

Summary: "A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer learns she is going to live after all and must learn to live with the choices she made when she lived liked she was dying."

What critics said: "Life Sentence picks one of the least dramatically satisfying paths, one that doesn't leave room for much truth either." — IndieWire

Status: Cancelled

Fox: "LA to Vegas" (Season 1)

Fox: "LA to Vegas" (Season 1)

Critic score: 56%

Audience score: 84%

Summary: "A new comedy about an airline crew and passengers who fly from LA to Vegas with one goal in mind – to come back a winner."

What critics said: "A strikingly unfunny piece of television." — RogerEbert.com

Status: Pending

HBO: "Here and Now" (Season 1)

HBO: "Here and Now" (Season 1)

Critic score: 25%

Audience score: 83%

Summary: "A multi-racial family made up of husband, wife, three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia and one biological child, find their bonds tested when one of the children begins seeing things which the rest cannot."

What critics said: "So overwrought that it makes 'The Handmaid's Tale' look like a light-hearted romp by comparison." — Decider

Status: Cancelled

Hulu: "Hard Sun" (Season 1)

Hulu: "Hard Sun" (Season 1)

Critic score: 50%

Audience score: 75%

Summary: "Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn play detectives Charlie Hicks and Elaine Renko, partners and enemies, who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction."

What critics said: "'Hard Sun,' it should be noted, is not subtle, or close to subtle, or even anywhere in the same continent as subtle." — The Atlantic

Status: Pending

NBC: "Taken" (Season 2)

NBC: "Taken" (Season 2)

Critic score: 32%

Audience score: 61%

Summary: "As former CIA agent Bryan Mills deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world, he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge."

What critics said: "While the target audience will probably dig the extensive action sequences and vivid violence, there's no reason anyone else should be 'Taken' for a ride." — New York Post

Status: Cancelled

Netflix: "Disjointed" (Season 2)

Netflix: "Disjointed" (Season 2)

Critic score: 23%

Audience score: 82%

Summary: "Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny."

What critics said: "There's not enough weed in the Golden State to wring consistent laughs from a show that's mostly as stale as an unwashed bong." — CNN

Status: Cancelled

Showtime: "Our Cartoon President" (Season 1)

Showtime: "Our Cartoon President" (Season 1)

Critic score: 30%

Audience score: 40%

Summary: "From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style."

What critics said: "If you're going to enter this hall of mirrors, you'd better have a distinct, original idea about your subject. 'Our Cartoon President,' an animated sitcom, seems to have none besides being a cartoon about the president." — The New York Times

Status: Pending

Syfy: "Krypton" (Season 1)

Syfy: "Krypton" (Season 1)

Critic score: 58%

Audience score: 78%

Summary: "The untold story of Superman's grandfather as he fights for justice on his home planet."

What critics said: "Any series that looks and feels, at least 50 percent of the time, like a spoof is already in a pretty bad spot. But if that series gives off the vibe that the characters inside it look completely uninspired, then you have a whopper of a problem." — The Hollywood Reporter

Status: Pending

TNT: "The Alienist" (Season 1)

TNT: "The Alienist" (Season 1)

Critic score: 63%

Audience score: 78%

Summary: "Crime reporter John Moore meets with psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century."

What critics said: "What must have come to life in the pages of the book struggles to find so much as a spark on the screen -- difficult, admittedly, through the pall of smoke and shadows that tend to choke it." — Newsday

Status: Pending

USA: "Falling Water" (Season 2)

USA: "Falling Water" (Season 2)

Critic score: 28%

Audience score: 76%

Summary: "An intersection between reality and unconscious thought, follow three strangers who slowly realize that they are dreaming parts of a bigger, more sinister tragedy."

What critics said: "Unfortunately, 'Falling Water' makes the mistake of prioritizing intrigue over interest, failing to take any of its concept or conspiracy and connect it to meaningful characterization or narrative stakes." — The AV Club

Status: Pending

Advertisement