Working: What We Do All Day

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: May 17, 2023
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

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

Critic Reviews

  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Richard Roeper
    May 17, 2023
    88
    Fascinating, enlightening and sometimes sobering.
  2. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    May 17, 2023
    70
    While we hope the show, and Obama, stay as grounded as it does in the first episode, Working: What We Do All Day is still a good glimpse at just what work is like in America, especially in these post-pandemic times.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    May 17, 2023
    60
    The people we meet during the four parts of the series are uniformly lovely. ... But the insights they provide are largely about themselves, not the massive problems they are intended to represent and personify. ... In the end, "What We Do All Day" is a lot of work.
  5. Time
    Reviewed by: Judy Berman
    May 17, 2023
    60
    It’s all pretty illuminating—until the bizarre finale, whose sunny portrait of the C-suite comes off as anything but representative.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Alison Herman
    May 17, 2023
    60
    It’s a stand-alone political message that’s also a piece of a larger political legacy. Inevitably, the latter overshadows and complicates the former. ... Loses some bite as it shifts focus from those struggling to get by to the CEOs running the show. Obama does lament corporate greed, but naturally, the leaders who afforded “Working” access aren’t identified as any of the bad ones.