Work It

ABC | Release Date: January 3, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
19
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
18

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: Much of what passes for humor in Work It is mined from the same, quickly depleted vein: men awkwardly trying to pass for women. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: The series--which is to say, the pilot--is just not very good; the jokes creak and wheeze, and there is nothing in the performances to distract from the material. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowryJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: This series aims so low, to paraphrase another artifact from the "Bosom Buddies" era, it could practically play handball against the curb. Read full review
25
People WeeklyTom GliattoJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a hair-sprayed cobweb. And not funny. [9 Jan 2012, p.40]
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: There are a couple of funny lines, mostly from Rebecca Mader, who plays mean-mouthed regional sales leader Grace, but overall, the humor is about as inauthentic as the guys' drag. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: Work It is dreadful almost beyond comprehension: witless, tasteless, poorly acted, abominably written, clumsily directed, hideously lit and badly costumed. Read full review
20
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: [The subject of hard economic times] has been mined successfully in the past on shows like "Good Times" and "Roseanne." But there was a humanity to those projects that Work It sorely lacks. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show lumbers like a 200-pound man trying to impersonate a 95-pound ballerina. Read full review
10
PopMattersMichael AbernethyJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: It will most likely be remembered for years to come, alongside My Mother, the Car and Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire, as one of TV's truly bad ideas. Read full review
10
TimeJames PoniewozikJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: Work It is bad dumb, memorably bad dumb, the kind of bad dumb show you will use in years to come as a benchmark for other bad sitcoms. Read full review
10
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's pretty awful. Read full review
0
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJan 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: Work It is not so bad it's good. It's just terrible. Read full review
0
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: ABC's atrocious Work It fails miserably. Read full review
0
Washington PostHank StueverJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: The laughs could not be thinner. Read full review
0
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Rick PorterJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: When you add to that a string of obvious, unfunny cross-dressing jokes and a set of female characters that are barely even one-dimensional, the premise pretty much collapses entirely. Read full review
0
HitfixAlan SepinwallJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: When you strip away the wigs, makeup, padded bras and Ace bandages, there's nothing about Work It that suggests a show that will ever be appealing to either gender. Read full review
0
New York PostLinda StasiJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's not only not funny, but it's also not original. Read full review
0
RedEyeCurt WagnerJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: ABC, you can do better than this drivel you call Work It. Read full review
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