Ray Romano has finally finished his Everybody Loves Raymond rewatch — and he seems pretty happy with the experience.
“I made it through all of them. I forced myself,” he told PEOPLE at the Dec. 4 premiere of his new show No Good Deed at Netflix’s Tudum Theater in Hollywood.
Romano, 66, said he hadn’t seen a single episode of his Emmy winning sitcom, which aired on CBS from 1996 to 2005, in 15 to 20 years.
“And back then, 20 years ago, I was quite critical of it, close to it,” he said. “I did it. I was there. I saw how the butter was made or whatever the saying is. Being removed from it now, I appreciated it.”
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“I was able to say, ‘You know what, we did something pretty good,’ ” he added.
Romano first told PEOPLE about his Everybody Loves Raymond rewatch last year when he was still in the midst of it. “People are going to think I’m either a weirdo or an a——, but lately I watched one and being so removed from it now, there’s a different appreciation of it,” he said. “I’m still critical. Still critical. There are still some episodes where I’m like, ‘Eh, we missed it on that one.’ ”
The Somewhere in Queens star explained that he was scrolling through Peacock and remembered that his show was on the streaming platform. “The next thing I knew, I had watched eight episodes,” he said. “Some nights, if I have time, I watch one episode a night and I grade them.”
Romano explained that he was grading each episode from 1 to 100. At the time, he said he’d only seen 40 to 50 of the series’ 210 episodes, rating only three — “Good Girls,” “Golf for It” and “The Bachelor Party” — in the 90s.
At the No Good Deed premiere, Romano gave an update on his personal ratings.
“The highest was 96 and I had about four or five 96s,” he said. “But then I had a bunch of 72s and 73s. In season 1 we were just finding our footing and the characters, the voice and all that.”
“It was fun,” he added of the project. “And now I hope I’ll forget them soon enough because I’m older and I’ll do it again.”
