Metacritics Best TV Shows and Reviews - 2025

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Metacritic TV Shows and Reviews Dataset This dataset contains a collection of tv shows and their corresponding reviews from Metacritic, a popular aggregate review site. The data provides insights into various tv shows. Each tv show entry includes critical reviews, user reviews, ratings, and other relevant information that can be used for analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and predictive modeling.

Important Note: The tv shows in this collection are selected from Metacritic's Best TV Shows of All Time list, which only includes titles that have received at least 7 reviews, ensuring a minimum level of critical and user input.

Up-to-dateness: This dataset is accurate as of March 14, 2025, and includes the most current rankings and tv show details available at that time.

Content The dataset contains general information and scores of 3K+ tv shows and their corresponding 96K+ user/critic reviews collected by sending automated requests to Metacritic's public backend API using Python's requests and pandas libraries.

Potential Uses Sentiment analysis and natural language processing on reviews. Predictive modeling for predicting user ratings based on features like genre, number of seasons, director, and cast. Data analysis on trends in tv show quality, genres, or cast performance. Comparing critical reviews and user reviews to understand the divergence in ratings. This dataset is perfect for researchers, tv enthusiasts, and data scientists who are interested in exploring the tv industry through data analysis.

Acknowledgements The datasets are scraped from metacritic.com The code for scraping the dataset can be found on my GitHub repository

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