The only biased critics I see are the ones who wants to be on A&E’s good side so they would give them scoops about the show and ones who don’t have any knowledge about film or television so they say that anything that is popular is good, which we know it’s not the case (i.e: Twilight, Fifty Shades of Grey).
Which, sadly, are mostly the sites that care more about eyeballs than actual TV reviews. So, your TVLine’s (Matt Mittovich can say he ships CS all he wants…I still remember when his Twitter background was Emma and Neal), your EW’s and the like. The sites that know that by pandering to the more popular fandom aspects, they’ll increase eyeballs on their articles and thus get more $$ which is the driving force of most click-bait sites.
Also, add in the two ladies of Other Side of the Mirror as people who very (very) openly criticize the show. Bless them. And apparently the head of OUAF left the site as a whole and was pretty open on Twitter about the fact that it’s because the show has gone so far downhill.
Our podcast is slowly getting to that point (poor Daniel. Eventually he’s going to start cutting my mic off altogether and having to gag Jeremy).
IMO, here are the most objective fans of the show.
I agree but at the same time I know that our site (sigh) has a bit of a rep of being Anti-Hook, Anti-CS, and not a “good place” for that character or that ship. Most, if not all, of our big CS fans have fled, never to return, because they don’t like that the majority of the regulars have zero tolerance/zero nice things to say about CS/Hook.
Though, I will say that when you take in the breadth of forums as a whole, we’re definitely one of the nicer ones. (Because I am a tyrant who rules with an iron fist). We’re also one of the sites that can have larger cultural debates without it turning into an absolute crap storm. Most of the time.