Or just not care about other peoples opinions on things and just watch what catches your eye. If it doesn't seem interesting by the nth episode just drop it.

Critic reviews are useless because they are largely just ads bought and paid for.

Also because they usually judge criteria differently. They watch a lot of movies and are looking for things the average person isn't.

that's going to cap your bandwidth to what your friends have time to watch... not criticizing, i do the same, but honestly fuck bribed reviewers.