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Inside Job (New Series by Shion Takeuchi with executive Producer, Alex Hirsch)

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I found a show to be quite enjoyable, although it seems to be a bit of a slow start. Anyways the show is about employees of a secret organization and and their dysfunction relationships
 
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It's pretty fun in my opinion especially since it knows to mostly punch up at billionaires like Jeff Bezos or at groups like flat earthers.
 
Halfway now, and I'm enjoying it, though I feel like it's an episode a day show.

But got a dope as fuuuck intro.

View: https://youtu.be/av5rNtEVdC0

Khona Moshr said:
It's pretty fun in my opinion especially since it knows to mostly punch up at billionaires like Jeff Bezos or at groups like flat earthers.
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*Is eaten along with a megayacht by a Kraken after cowardly abandoning the cast during a fight.
"THIS IS WHY I DON'T ALLOW BATHROOM BREAAAKS-"
 
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Khona Moshr said:
It's pretty fun in my opinion especially since it knows to mostly punch up at billionaires like Jeff Bezos or at groups like flat earthers.
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I was a little iffy about going with the "conspiracies are true" angle given the current state of politics, but I think the key that makes it work is that many conspiracies are true... but not in the way conventionally depicted. Such as how the moon landing was faked... because
the actual moon landers founded a hippie socialist colony and the government is busy pretending they don't exist.

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It feels like a better Rick and Morty tbh. I'm liking it a lot.
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The show feels closest to Futurama tonally to me, albeit with more plot and character depth. Maybe that's just Brett's resemblance to Fry. Rick and Morty didn't invent sci-fi adult comedy, after all.
 
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firefossil said:
I was a little iffy about going with the "conspiracies are true" angle given the current state of politics, but I think the key that makes it work is that many conspiracies are true... but not in the way conventionally depicted. Such as how the moon landing was faked... because
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I would agree with you, I had reservations because of current events, but it thankfully was fun in how it handle things.
 
Khona Moshr said:
I would agree with you, I had reservations because of current events, but it thankfully was fun in how it handle things.
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On the more substantive level its a workplace comedy at heart, with a special emphasis on how working women, especially those in managerial roles, get given absurd and contrary demands as they're expected to fulfill the expectations of their feminine gender but also the masculine expectations of being 'the boss'. E1: Reagan you need to be softer and form a rapport with your underlings. E2: Reagan you need to be hard and fire one of your underlings. What's that you say, those are mutually exclusive? Too bad! Enjoy working yourself to death in a futile quest for respect while the credit and promotions inevitably go to mediocre white dudes, because a thousands of years old conspiracy is the ultimate Good Old Boys club.
 
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So something pointed out to me was that Rand and Reagan are the sort of hypercompetent genius bureaucrats that media often has behind shadowy conspiracies, whereas JR and Brett are much more the sorts of people who actually rise to positions of power.

Another brilliant thing I think the show does is the gradual reveal that Rand isn't just a comedic deadbeat dad but actually an amoral narcissist and long term antagonist of the show.
 
I appreciate Brett is a genuine nice guy who makes up for Reagan's flaws and shares similair childhood issues as opposed to some useless egocentric Jerry Smith-type character who is only a load to her and the cast and kept around because making him suffer is cheap laughs.

Glad to see animation shows moving on from such characters, with Boimler in ST: Lower Decks similairly growing out of being a perpetual loser.
 
Recently watched it, and, yeah, I agree with the general feel of the thread. "All conspiracies (except flat earth, lol) are true" could have quickly lead to disaster, but it manages to be genuinely funny.
 
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Yeah, I've seen one was planned, but I haven't heard anything about a release date?
 
Gul Damar said:
Supposedly this was a 20-episode season cut in half with them releasing the second half later on, but for Netflix standards it's been rather quiet to the point of me doubting it even exists.
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I guess you have not heard. Netflix has axed a massive amount of its animation projects, and while it has mainly targeted kids and family oriented shows, it likely includes Inside Job.
 
Honestly a dumb move, scapegoating animation for their problems.
 
The second half of the series is already animated. Inside Job might not get renewed, but we'll definitely get the other ten episodes. Inside Job came out in late October 2021, so I think we won't get a release date until August or September of this year. IIRC, the latest series of Disenchantment didn't get a release date until three weeks before it came out.
 
Having watched it and loved it, I have to say that brett is the weak link. I mean his entire character just screams "sheltered spoiled dudebro!" From the first episode alone. Reagan ridley has been put through a gruelling and hellish upbringing and finally gets her promotion to cognito Inc, only to be told that brett was literally picked off the street to get her job.

And just to rub salt in it, reagan's Magnum Opus of sentient artifical intelligence gets taken away from her when brett walks in (complete with the obnoxious air horn)... and presents everyone with bagels.
 
Have you watched all of it? Asking because everything you mentioned happened in the first episode and I don't want to accidently spoil anything
 
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Have you watched all of it? Asking because everything you mentioned happened in the first episode and I don't want to accidently spoil anything
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I watched all of it yes, and brett is, as firefossil noted, the spoiled straight white male who bumbles their way upwards.

Get to overrule the woman who went through hell to inherit her father's position by default of being some random white male? Check.

Steal the credit from the same woman whose scientific achievements would put her on par with Alan Turing, Edward jenner and Albert Einstein... by bringing bagels to everyone else in the room? Check.

Only real achievement being a brown noser who cant face reality? Check.

Eta: sorry if it sounds like I'm grinding the axe right now.
 
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That's kind of the whole point? Reagan can work her ass off, and some fratbro can be put in over her because everyone likes him more then her?

But the subversion is that Brett himself is uncomfortable with the responsibility, that his social skills come from being a complete human doormat while technically only listed as an intern then a full employee, and that he and Reagan work really well together as a team.
 
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