Inside Job

Maybe it’s just the amount of time I spend watching TV news or extended HBO documentaries — three docs built around footage from the Jan. 6 attempted insurrection and we haven’t even hit the one-year anniversary — but I’ve reached the point where even a casual mention of the “Deep State” causes me to wince. It’s the sort of generally meaningless conspiracy theorizing that might have gotten you laughed out of a serious room five years ago, but has now been used as a justification for real-world violence and social unrest.Inside Job Season 1 Download.

In Netflix’s new animated comedy Inside Job, the Deep State is played for laughs, with fitful results. I can see a certain power in reclaiming the ridiculousness of the Deep State, of taking it out of the realm of legitimate conversation and putting it back into context with mole-men, moth-men and gigantic sentient fungi. Of course, isn’t that exactly what a real Deep State would probably want to do if it actually existed? Created by Shion Takeuchi and executive produced by Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch, Inside Job has a lot of energy — too much energy, I often felt — and a near-infinite number of potential storylines to mine. But through 10 episodes, it’s still struggling to define its supporting characters and its best episodes just happen to be the ones that stray furthest from the core premise. Or at least those episodes are the ones that made me wince less?

Our heroine is Reagan Ridley (Lizzy Caplan), a tech genius working at Cognito Inc., the public-facing company secretly orchestrating many of the world’s darkest conspiracies on behalf of a group of shadowy overlords. The daughter of former Cognito bigwig Rand (Christian Slater), Reagan is brilliant, profane — the show is surely not for the kiddies — socially awkward and bent on world domination. But when it comes time for her to get a big promotion, she has to share the job with Brett (Clark Duke), a completely unqualified yes-man.