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A Swedish movie about a "team-building conference" for a small group of people with horrible jobs that is looking like it's going to be exactly what I needed this supremely irritating WFH Monday. Netflix seems to think it's a horror movie, but I think it's going to be like sinking into a hot bubble bath while drinking cocktails made from Amarula and demerol and eating a few pounds of warm chocolate chip cookies. [more inside]
posted by Don Pepino on Oct 16, 2023 - 7 comments

Inside Job is an animated workplace comedy set in a world where every conspiracy theory is real. It is centered on American "shadow government" organization Cognito, Inc., which attempts to control the world and keep the conspiracies secret. The series follows a team led by tech genius Reagan Ridley (voiced by Lizzy Caplan) and her "mediocre white man" partner Brett Hand (Clark Duke), as they work in the organization alongside reptilian shapeshifters, a human-dolphin hybrid, and a sapient mushroom from hollow Earth. Season One was released in its entirety on October 22, 2021 on Netflix. [more inside]
posted by Kadin2048 on Nov 16, 2021 - 9 comments