page_title: Governor Dunston
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Governor Dunston / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Matthew Broderick at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Wonderful World. Photographer's blog post about these photos.
context_page_description: "Governor Dunston" is the second episode of the seventh season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 127th overall episode of the series. It was written and directed by Robert Carlock. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company network in the United States on October 11, 2012.
  "Governor Dunston" received a positive critical response and was watched by 3.4 million viewers.
context_section_description: "Governor Dunston" was watched by 3.40 million viewers and earned a 1.3 rating/4 share in the 18–49 demographic.  This means that it was seen by 1.3 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds, and 4 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds watching television at the time of the broadcast. This was a decrease from the season seven premiere "The Beginning of the End" (3.46 million). In its original Australian television broadcast on September 16, 2013 the episode was watched by 63,000 viewers via the Seven Network.
  Critical response to "Governor Dunston" has been positive.  Pilot Viruel of The A.V. Club gave the episode an "A-" and praised the satirical politics of the episode and the performances of guest stars Catherine O’Hara, Bryan Cranston, and Matthew Broderick.  TV.com writer Julia Bergen gave the episode a strong review, stating that her "hopes for the rest of the season are pretty high" and "Based on 'Governor Dunston', I think it's safe to say that instead of taking it easy, the writers are trying to fit in all of the storylines that are too good not to get made."  Amy Amatangelo of Paste magazine gave the episode a 7.0 out of 10 and praised the allusions to the 2012 Presidential election, but criticized a lack of clever humor, commenting "As much as I’m enjoying this take-no-prisoners march towards the series finale, I delight in the show the most when its comedy is smart and quick. I would have appreciated the Governor Dunston shenanigans more if he hadn’t been a total buffoon."
caption: Critics praised the return of Matthew Broderick's Cooter Burger as a welcomed callback to the show's second season.
exif: {"Image Make": "OLYMPUS", "Image Model": "E-500", "Image Software": "Picasa 3.0", "Image ExifOffset": "88", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "446", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4643", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/100", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "250", "EXIF FNumber": "5", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2005:01:01 04:00:00", "EXIF MeteringMode": "CenterWeightedAverage", "EXIF Flash": "Flash fired, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "55", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1514", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2142", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "316", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "63d686f92ba3bee446837969ee03200a"}