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Undercover Boss: Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 7, 2010
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
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Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • Summary: Bosses go undercover as new rank-and-file employees of their own companies to discover how it is like for the average worker.
  • Genre(s): Reality

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    88
    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?
  2. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    58
    Undercover presents a wonderful tribute to the working man and woman. Middle managers are the villains here, sitting at desks and docking workers for clocking in late at lunch. The hour ends with the predictable reveal.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    30
    What we get instead is a hollow catharsis for a nation already strung out on the futility of resenting those who occupy CEO suites.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Cosmochick87
    10
    Hair Cuttery should be on the show!!!!at Lot of people think it's easy doing hair. It's hard work.... The show is great! And really shows appreciation for the hard workers.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. johnjohn
    10
    Amazing show! I was very touched by the stories and I can't wait till next week!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. BrettR.
    0
    How condescending! And what happens in the end. The workers get a "taskforce" and the boss goes back to his millions a year because he forgot that working is hard. So contrived I couldn't believe it. Odd that not a single one of the workers he was strategically placed with was terrible at their job. Also, shouldn't you be working instead of talking to neighbors all day? What kind of policy will you implement to let me socialize whenever I want?… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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