Rotten Tomatoes to start rating TV episodes, starting with Game Of Thrones
With the rise in quality TV has come a rise in quality TV criticism, and it’s long past time someone started chronicling and quantifying that shit. That someone is Rotten Tomatoes, which launched a TV ratings section of its popular review aggregate website last fall. As with Rotten Tomatoes’ movie ratings, reviews are culled from critics at newspapers, magazines, and pop culture websites (like The A.V. Club). The section is still in beta mode, but this week site launched its new system for rating individual episodes with “Two Swords,” the fourth-season premiere of Game Of Thrones. (Not surprisingly, the episode is rated 96-percent fresh.)