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James Poniewozik (/ p ɒ n ə ˈ w ɒ z ɪ k /; born July 12, 1968) is an American journalist and television critic. He is the chief TV critic for The New York Times . Earlier in his career, he wrote Time's Tuned In column for 16 years.
— Henning Fog, Entertainment Weekly The first season of Parks and Recreation received mixed to negative reviews, with many critics deeming it too similar to The Office, which shared the same mock documentary style as Parks and Recreation. In particular, several commentators said the naive and well-meaning Leslie Knope character too closely resembled The Office protagonist Michael Scott, a ...
The New York Times television critic James Poniewozik notes in his Critic's Notebook column that, for the most part, the drama is a "hospital melodrama with whiz-bang medical science, a dash of intra-staff romance and shameless sentimentality." Discussing the main characters Shaun and Dr. Aaron Glassman (Richard Schiff), Poniewozik writes that ...
Time 's James Poniewozik felt it the same show in humor and quality, though he noted an absent "sense of mission regarding the characters. Maybe it's enough for Community , free of the ratings pressures of NBC, to live its second life free to be weird and playful and experimental."
[14] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [15] Writing for The New York Times, James Poniewozik thought the series was didactic at times, though positively, "The production feels connected to the place, sidewalk and soil. The show's voice is distinctive ...
The Office (American season 7) List of episodes. " The Seminar " is the fourteenth episode of the seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show's 140th episode overall. Written by Steve Hely and directed by B. J. Novak, the episode aired January 27, 2011 on NBC. The episode features Ricky Gervais reprising his ...
Some critics were very disappointed with the episode. James Poniewozik of Time stated " 'Across the Sea' took a series that is deeply and richly psychological and character-based and moved it into the realm of the allegorical." [9] Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune stated "For a lot of reasons, this was not an episode that goes in the Win ...
"Customer Loyalty" received largely positive reviews from television critics. James Poniewozik of Time magazine concluded that it "showed the stakes behind its characters' paper-pushing lives in a way it hasn't since Michael Scott left Scranton." He called the first half a "wacky ensemble show", but said that the last part featured elements ...