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. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joanna Weiss
    80
    Halter is also the most heartless of the principals, in a tough-love sort of way.... [But] Most of the time, though, this show makes you wish that the principals had sharper teeth.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    70
    Nothing here is dramatic enough to be genuinely or consistently interesting, as if they couldn't get waivers to present any of the juicy stuff that might give the show sizzle. The result is a high school version of "The People's Court."
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Adam Markovitz
    67
    Too bad the fun of watching the kids' punishments is canceled out by their own thrill at being on TV.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    63
    Aside from learning that paddle-whacking still exists, the rest of the show is as dull and dimwitted as the students.