Underemployed
MTV | MTV - Music Television | Release Date: October 16, 2012
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: These young Chicagoans are seriously, but amusingly, Underemployed--the title of a disarmingly scruffy new MTV hour-long dramedy from Six Feet Under's Craig Wright that nails the confusion (sometimes sexual) and disappointment (usually economic) of a generation raised to expect more than today's society is offering. Read full review
80
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Underemployed is one of the most enjoyably upbeat twentysomething scripted dramas to hit prime time in ages. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: The plotting of the pilot is a bit too pat at times, but two subsequent episodes bolster the argument that Underemployed deserves a shot at going full-time. Read full review
63
RedEyeCurt WagnerOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Despite the familiarities, the cheerfulness of this group helps the show overcome its predictability and other faults. Read full review
63
New York PostLinda StasiOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: It remains to be seen if Underemployed will have time to spread its dramatic wings and shake off its ham-fisted preachiness--but it's off to a promising, if predictable, start. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: While it tries to stay in the hip genre of new-school dramedy, it often tilts toward traditional soap and sitcom. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: There is a story to be made from this, about aspiration and achievement and what goes on in the gap between them, but that is not a story that television, or any other form of American mass culture, particularly likes to tell. Underemployed flirts with it but more often settles for flattering its audience, reflecting not only its hopes but also its resentments. Read full review
50
NewsdayVerne GayOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: We've been down this road before and all the signposts of Underemployed look the same. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Like a lot of newly minted grads, Underemployed doesn't qualify as an instant success. Yet viewed in the context of its ambitions, neither can it be dismissed as an underachiever. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: The largely unknown cast is game and not unskilled, but it can't make up for the familiar situations and unremarkable dialogue. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Underemployed is simply and irreparably underwhelming. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show's humor is tepid at best. The characters are mostly annoying--and bereft of the vulnerability and honesty that make you want to root for the similarly self-involved twentysomethings in "Girls." Read full review
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