Robert Cushman of the National Post is a little obsessed with the name of the show:

• Not quite a step up
  “The show, at least on the strength of tonight’s first episode, makes nothing of its characters’ shared initial, maybe because there’s nothing that could be made. It just seems a too-cute way of getting together a variegated bunch of employees for another workplace comedy. At the centre of it is Evan Jarlewski (David Kopp), the team’s “gore specialist,” which involves finding new ways of putting “carnage and violence into video games while conforming to industry quality codes.”” Read more.

Vinay Menon of the Toronto Star enjoyed jPod:

• CBC has a winner in jPod
  “As I’ve said before, the litmus test for any television pilot is simple: will it leave viewers wanting more? Well, as the closing credits rolled on my review DVD for jPod (CBC, 9 tonight), I sat in the widescreen glow and found myself craving – craving! – a second episode.” Read more.

Joel Rubinoff of the Waterloo Record reviews jPod:

• CBC’s jPOD is a fresh take on weird
  “If there’s one thing even defiantly unplugged viewers are sure to find amusing about jPOD (9 p.m. on CBC) — an engagingly offbeat Canadian dramedy about worker drones at a cutting-edge video game company — it’s the embarrassing attempts by the 40-something chief executive to “get down” with his workers.” Read more.