INSIDE JOB.

• Author: Camp, Emma

The premise of Netflix's Inside Job gives what sounds like an inventive twist to the workplace comedy. Its shenanigans are set at Cognito Inc., a shadowy government cabal that secretly controls world politics.

While the premise seems rife with potential, the show ultimately fails to use its opportunities--or even to be funny at all. Despite portraying selfprofessed deep state overlords, the show never strays from H.R.-approved jokes with all the smugness of a BuzzFeed listicle. A particularly groaninducing sequence includes a feckless security guard exclaiming "Aliens? A woman in charge of a team? No one will believe this!"

The show's version of the deep state unwittingly comes across as a slightly highertech version of our surface...