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  • NBC
  • Aug 25, 2008
  • NBC
  • Aug 25, 2008
America's Toughest Jobs

Summary This NBC reality project spotlights the action and adventure found in this country's workforce. It is a competition series where each week 13 men and women must work on physically demanding jobs. Each week a contestant will be elimnated if his or her work is not up to par. The last remaining worker will receive the combined annual salari...

  • NBC
  • Aug 25, 2008
  • NBC
  • Aug 25, 2008
America's Toughest Jobs
Season 1
Season Premiere: Aug 25, 2008
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary This NBC reality project spotlights the action and adventure found in this country's workforce. It is a competition series where each week 13 men and women must work on physically demanding jobs. Each week a contestant will be elimnated if his or her work is not up to par. The last remaining worker will receive the combined annual salari...

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Mixed
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13% Negative
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60
This group doesn't need a villain or a backstabber, at least in the early stage. The job is enough of an equalizer.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW
60
This hybrid, which is competent but not terribly distinctive, may not be unique enough to thrill reality fans or familiar enough to satisfy devotees of “Deadliest Catch.”
By Maureen Ryan FULL REVIEW
50
The basic formula is by now so groaningly familiar, and the premise so weak and weary, that there's only the "reality" part of this docu-game, or whatever it ought to be called, to tempt one's interest, and that not much.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
40
America's Toughest Jobs misfires, primarily, due to the fact that the elimination component feels like a tired add-on to the summer-camp-for-adults premise.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
40
America's Toughest Jobs has been fully homogenized and networkized to appeal to a more mainstream crowd, meaning it has successfully neutered one of the few unscripted genres with genuine grit and originality and made it look, sound and feel like every other "Survivor" knockoff.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
40
This show amounts to yet another example of the pains people will take to appear on TV. By the end of the premiere, even the crabs are starting to look a little bored.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
25
Are you ready for a new fall network series--even a lame one?
By David Zurawik FULL REVIEW

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