During the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ray Romano was flipping through Peacock when he stumbled across his old show “ Everybody Loves Raymond .” And whaddyuh know, it was pretty good!

“I hadn’t seen an episode in 10 years, 15 years,” he says. “And I went, ‘wow!’ I appreciated it more than before.”

So Romano did what any self-respecting fan would do: He binged the entire series, all 210 episodes — and he ranked each one, on a scale up to 100. “I never gave everything 100 because nothing is perfect, but I did appreciate everybody’s work more now,” he says. “Now that I can take a step back and it feels like a different time. I appreciated the show more, and all the actors and the writers even more.”

Talk about perfect timing to pull out that notebook. After years of trying, s

See Full Page