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Critics are definitely sensitive to, for lack of a bettet word, elitist themes. I don't mean to say that they reflect the elite, but rather an elite.

Which is kind of inevitable because how else would you choose who becomes a critic other than choosing someone whose idea of quality is at least somewhat close to those of the artists, producers and other critics.

>>contra+(OP)
I think this is one of the better examples of that:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/orville/s01 (critics: 31%, audience: 93%)

vs

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/star_trek_discovery/s01 (critics: 82%, audience: 49%)

(S02 of The Orville got very few but great reviews from the critics, it hadn't really changed much IMO.)