Corporate

Ok a few episodes were average, but the best ones are so brilliant they make up for the rest. Some of the subject are very dark, like preferring a mass shooting to watching the latest "must see" TV show, or reselling prescription medication. Best episode so far : The Pain Of Being Alive & Society Tomorrow. Its a series worth sticking with

I haven't been as impressed with the first two episodes of a series since Archer debuted, or maybe Red Oaks. The writing is minimalist in its approach to the unrelenting onslaught of over-the-top mini-scenarios that contribute to the overall story arc. The main characters speak with a glib, soulless detachment, giving the sense that they are only somewhat involved in what is going on around them, without any real emotion when they do decide to take up the cause de jour. This show may not be for everyone, as evidenced by scratchbird's review above. But if you are looking for something that speaks to your own soul-crushing corporate existence, definitely give it a watch.

Please don't cancel... EVER... Spot on humor and just keeps getting better!!!

I can see how this show wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but if you've worked corporate jobs or even most professional jobs with their soulless bureaucracy and boot-licking culture of "face time," this show captures the hollowness of such work with accuracy and very dark humor. It is like a bleak version of the Office, but a lot wittier. Think Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" applied to the white collar world. It picks on all the weird hallmarks of corporate culture, from the corporate retreat, to "casual Friday," to reporting bad behavior to HR. The characters are so perfectly cast, from the corporate tools like John, the evil CEO Christian, the bitter HR director...love this show!

Most comedies on tv are like most other comedies on tv -- the same types of sitcom jokes, sitcom plots, sitcom laugh tracks, etc etc. Corporate goes for something different -- so different it's kind of hard to explain it. It goes places few other comedies would dare, it has characters that few other comedies could feature -- it almost feels like a sketch routine in the form of a 20 minute, continuing show.

What makes it work, even when it doesn't, is that the two leads, lazy, cynical, boorish, are actually, somehow, totally endearing. They say what everyone else is thinking but afraid to say -- they do what everyone else would like to do but afraid to do. Their banter is pitch perfect, their lack of ambition inspiring, their failure to do anything right somehow perfect. All in all, one of the best comedies in recent years. So (of course) it got cancelled.