zee I cannot believe that this show puts me in a position where I am going to sound like an apologist for big business. But here I am. I worked as support staff in a management consulting firm . No big management consulting firm has only four people in it... But that's just the first of a thousand factual errors. They do provide a good service. And management consulting professionals are as geeky as any computer geek. They stare at spreadsheets a lot. They actually analyze business financials and use standard accounting principles, and often come up with interesting insights. I worked with a team that help launched the first debit card. Like your ATM card? Thank management consultants. After they understand what is happening by running a bunch of numbers, they create a presentation , and they interact with clients. They do this professionally . Drunkenness and hookers were not a part of this plan, ever. The business owners and executives in the show are shown to be stupider than in real life their secretaries actually are. Ludicrous. Those guys to earn 10 million a year? They earn that much more than you because they're that much smarter than you. Get over it.I understand this reality wouldn't make for much of a show. However this is just so unrealistic I felt as irritated with its lack of research as I am with a science show writer who thinks that the comets out at the orbit of Jupiter could cause an earthquake on Earth, or something equally as stupid. And sexing up stupidity doesn't make it less stupid. It just makes it stupidity with tits. (As I have a pair of my own, they don't impress me on screen as they do a 14-year-old boy or 30-year-old virgin.)

fredmelden-1 The main characters have a smidgen of depth; the rest are cardboard cutouts. The situations the pod addresses are occasionally realistic, but the 'sell' itself is almost always simplistic. The ease with which the clients succumb to the various 'sells' is ridiculously easy, as if the heads of large corporations don't simply make mistakes (they often do) but make stupid ones on a regular basis. And, of course, the characters all have 'issues' - daddy issues, mommy issues, inferiority issues - a pretense to cover up the shallowness of the characters. It's rather like putting on a layer of icing on a cow pie. Everyone habitually talks about sex, sex, and more sex; the "mine is bigger than yours" mentality pervades every scene, except the ones where actual sex occurs. The depicted snark and chest thumping has become a cultural infection that is today reflected in our politics (I will leave specific names unmentioned). The good life is not depicted not as one of stability and contentment, of family and community, but of fast living, fancy cars, and $1000 sushi bars, and waltzing through life one-upping the next guy.In my opinion, the depicted ideals reflect a society in decline.

harisch i don't get most of the jokes because of their language (or is that accent?). A very sophisticated way of trying to humor audience. The very profession of the protagonist is a mystery to me. I really really don't get the meaning of the words managing consulting. If those words are tough to understand for you this show goes way deeper into those words But if you are intelligent enough to understand those words you'll enjoy it a lot. Still I am basing this review on only 2 episodes of season 1. I don't know if its easy to understand after 2 episodes. And also even if you don't get those words you'll still have about half of the episode which is in English.

gpknopp Kristin Bell. And, lots of crass, clever dialogue and "inner monologues" that are quite realistic representations of emotionally violent relationships in this medium. Hollywood swings between ultra-violence and pandering humor and soft-core. It's refreshing to see, depictions of relationships that are more real than anything I've seen. And if you don't relate, it's okay, go back and watch your baby stuff. Like empire. Or Arrow. Not everyone can be a consultant."I was squirting, Greg." Ahh, good stuff. "Fecal fingers." It gets better...