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"Our Cartoon President."
The first half of 2018 has seen the release of
some great television, but it's also brought on a number of shows that are not so stellar.
From Netflix's Kathy Bates-led, weed-dispensary sitcom, "Disjointed;" to Stephen Colbert's lackluster, animated Trump parody, "Our Cartoon President;" duds abound in the crop of new and returning shows that have aired so far this year.
To figure out which shows are worth avoiding, we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to select the most critically loathed scripted show that each network and service has released in 2018 so far.
We excluded children's shows, talk shows, and docuseries, and we only selected from networks with multiple scripted shows that aired episodes in a 2018 season that had enough reviews to receive a "Fresh" or "Rotten" designation.
We also excluded a number of networks whose lowest-rated show was not under 70% on the critic scale, and used audience scores to break any ties within networks.
Here is the worst TV show of 2018 on each network so far, according to critics: