- Network: Sundance Channel
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 13, 2012
- Season #: 1
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80It is neither a cheap thrill or too painful to watch these lost souls being drilled in first impressions.
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80It's all so real it verges on the mundane, but the show is also strong and necessary medicine for these times.
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80While it's a rough, sometimes grim, process, it feels that much more well-earned when, at the end of the first episode, one student, Bobby–who struggled to speak for himself in mock interviews–visits a future class to report that he's held a carpentry job for a month.
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80Beyond the emotional pull of the individual stories, Get to Work breaks down a certain us/them barrier, showing with painful clarity the holes left by the absence of family structure and education.
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80Though these people may not resemble any job seekers you know, the portraits feel about as honest as reality TV gets.