TV Club Grades

Within the comment section of his review of tonight's Community, Todd VanDerWerff tries to outline the basic grading scale the TV Club site uses. And just in case the link isn't going directly to the comment (as it isn't for me), the scale is pasted after the jump.

here's the official TV Club grading scale, so you know that B+ is not a problem.

A: I genuinely believe this is one of the ten or 15 best episodes the show has ever done, and I think even non-regular viewers of the show would at least appreciate it on some level.

A-: This is going to become a favorite episode of fans, but its virtues are perhaps less immediately apparent. Probably top 10 or 15 of the season.

B+: This is a very fun episode. Good and solid. If every episode was like this, the world would be a very good place.

B: This is a very fun episode with at least one significant flaw.

B-: This is a very fun episode with a handful of significant flaws.

C+: This could have been a fun episode, if not for the flaws.

C: A disappointing episode of this show. Hopefully, it will be better next week. (I use this score a lot for ambitious failures.)

C-: Also disappointing, but it's hard to see what the producers were thinking when making this one.

D+: Maybe one storyline works, but everything else is a mess.

D: Everything is a mess.

D-: Not only is everything a mess, but it's also dull.

F: I really think we should only use this when we believe we've encountered an episode so bad and so horrible that it is also sort of fun to watch in slack-jawed horror. Necessarily, that episode should be the worst or one of the absolute worst the show has ever produced. 

And now you know!