On review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes,
The G Word has an approval rating of 100% based on 5 reviews. Melissa Camacho wrote for
Common Sense Media that "There's a lot to be learned here, and it's a lot more entertaining than your average civics class." Nell Minow wrote in RogerEbert.com that "If we don’t believe in government, it dies. We cannot believe in it if we do not understand it, and The G Word's depictions of the best and worst of government are a welcome first step." Some critics questioned the show's association with Barack and Michelle Obama: Sonia Rao of
The Washington Post wrote in an article titled 'Why it’s hard to trust an Obama-produced show to critique the government', that 'The G Word' was characterized by a, "...somewhat disingenuous take on what is required for the government to truly serve its people — perhaps the most obvious indicator of its producers’ bias."
Libertarian political pundit
John Stossel criticized the show, writing in
Reason that the show was "big government propaganda" that "sneers at what it calls this philosophy that the free market should be trusted over the government." == References ==