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Corporate
2018 · TV series · 27 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Pat Bishop, Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson
A dark, edgy look at life as a Junior-Executive-in-Training at your average, soulless multinational corporation. Matt and Jake are at the mercy of a tyrannical CEO and his top lieutenants while navigating an ever-revolving series of disasters. Their only ally is Human Resources rep Grace.
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Funnily enough, that reminds of one scene in the Comedy Central TV show "Corporate", episode S01E05 titled... "Corporate retreat"[0].
I didn't know those trust/sharing exercises were real.
[0]https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt7289250/?ref_=ttep_ep_5
Love Severance. Corporate on Comedy Central was really good, too. Lance Reddick... RIP. :.( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5648202/
I'm of the opinion that most of the "dark, gritty" stuff we keep seeing in media just boils down to standard trend-chasing and market pressures to continue to use existing IPs. The cheesy, feel-good stuff from the 60s has already been done, so the darker stuff, especially when it's a darker take on those same characters, is still somewhat subversive to most viewers. When artists can't get real novelty, subversiveness is at least still generally respectable. Eventually, as the audience gets tired of this and it gets done to death, it will shift. Maybe not to the happy-go-lucky stuff, but I think surreal and absurdist humor is still fertile ground (see shows like: Nathan For You, The Review, Informercials, Corporate, American Vandal), and could be another future avenue for continuing to exploit existing IPs.
As for the general happiness of the population decreasing, I think that's mostly unrelated to the media trend. Economic troubles (low wages, housing unaffordability), societal strife, and social media all seem like obvious causes. However, Movies and TV are still generally viewed as an escape to most people, so while they reflect greater trends to some degree, I don't think they're as tied to it as the author may expect.
Anyone watch the show Corporate on Comedy Central. They had an episode where an employee's exclamation point key stop working, so all his Thanks! were just Thanks, so his coworkers thought he was being passive aggressive and looked for subtexts in his emails.
https://www.cc.com/episodes/yu0qm4/corporate-thanks-season-2-ep-4
>Matt’s broken “!” key strains his relationship with John and Kate, and Jake and Grace conspire to get rid of the office dog.
There was a very funny episode of the much ignored recent tv show "Corporate", called "Thanks!" [1] which dealt with the the now common use of the exclamation mark [!] to convey "pleasantness" in an email
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648664/?ref_=ttep_ep4
Until I'd watched this i wasn't entirely aware how much I used this too in correspondence to infer joviality or some such.
> How about PowerPoint?
Tangent:
There's a great TV show on Comedy Central called "Corporate". (It reminds me of Better Off Ted if any of you liked that series.) There is an episode titled, The Powerpoint of Death, where the main character creates a PowerPoint presentation to win a govt contract for a war.