Undercover Boss
CBS | Release Date: February 7, 2010
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser
Season 1 Review: The personalities are so appealing, and the jobs are so humbling, that this would have been a great one-shot documentary. Can they keep up the impact week after week? Or will we suffer from empathy fatigue sooner rather than later? Read full review
80
Deseret NewsScott D. Pierce
Season 1 Review: It'll bring a smile to your face and, yes, warm your heart a bit. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: If one can get past the certainty that, like most reality shows, the reality here has been sanitized for everyone's protection, one should enjoy meeting these salt-of-the-earth workers with good hearts, the kind of people who normally are everywhere except on TV. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Undercover Boss isn't spectacular TV. But its real appeal lies in the exercise itself: watching a CEO meet actual workers and realize they work hard at jobs often made harder by petty rules and policies. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalDorothy Rabinowitz
Season 1 Review: The lineup of episodes has been rich in their revelations, moving in their testaments to the lives of the employees and, especially, to the meaning to them of their daily labor. There is above all no simulated emotion in what those workers say, no artifice—a new and revolutionary turn for the genre. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyRob BrunnerJan 20, 2012
Season 3 Review: Watching home-office stiffs bomb in the real world is part of the fun of this reality show. [27 Jan 2012, p.68]
75
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesChuck Barney
Season 1 Review: A contrived, yet effective, piece of feel-good television. Read full review
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