Principal's Office

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Season 1
  • Network: truTV
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 21, 2008
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9

Critic Reviews

  1. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    50
    It probably wasn't their intention, but the producers of The Principal's Office have succeeded in capturing one reality of high school life that's often been overlooked on shows like "Gossip Girl" and "One Tree Hill"--the sheer tedium of it all, from the petty rebellions to the sometimes even pettier responses.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    50
    The show’s value, if any, is in demonstrating the different styles used by the principals: tough, tender and so on. The show’s drawback is that it suggests that all principals do is administer discipline. For that, the show’s creators need a spanking.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    50
    The Principal's Office, a supposed documentary series from TruTV (the reality-show ghost of the cable channel once known as Court TV), is pure canine despite delivering neither the bark nor the bite you might expect from a show that follows high school principals dealing with disciplinary problems.
  5. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    42
    Producers play this for laughs, though just slightly. (These are high school kids, after all.) Even so, the show's flat and almost stunningly uninformative.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    40
    While moments in The Principal's Office are relatable enough, they're just not that intriguing, maybe because they involve people we've never met before and will not meet again.