Paul Dehler

Wow! Anyone alive to the incongruities of working in a nasty corporate hierarchy will be thankful for this wonderful series. Nastiness abounds here as personal psycho-social needs—career advancement, authority over others, social status, inclusion/exclusion dynamics—engender the petty personal jealousies that seem more corrosive in their immediacy than the more broadly or socially-significants acts of corporate malfeasance. Yes, “ya gotta earn a living” but at what cost. . .one’s sanity. . .one’s sense of morality? A top-notch cast delivering great performances, and a complex storyline with compelling characters compel viewers to ask themselves: who’s the crazy one? Is it the obnoxiously earnest, caring, emotionally intense person intent on reforming her workplace or the seemingly self-possessed corporate drones who suffer no cognitive dissonance or moral revulsion with their complicity in corporate plundering and ecocide? If this excellent piece of social satire does not have you rooting for Laura Dern’s character then surely you are part of the problem, not the solution. . .