Get To Work

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Season 1
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    Aug 24, 2012
    80
    It is neither a cheap thrill or too painful to watch these lost souls being drilled in first impressions.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Aug 16, 2012
    80
    It's all so real it verges on the mundane, but the show is also strong and necessary medicine for these times.
  3. Time
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    Aug 15, 2012
    80
    While it's a rough, sometimes grim, process, it feels that much more well-earned when, at the end of the first episode, one student, Bobby–who struggled to speak for himself in mock interviews–visits a future class to report that he's held a carpentry job for a month.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Aug 15, 2012
    80
    Beyond the emotional pull of the individual stories, Get to Work breaks down a certain us/them barrier, showing with painful clarity the holes left by the absence of family structure and education.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Aug 15, 2012
    80
    Though these people may not resemble any job seekers you know, the portraits feel about as honest as reality TV gets.