Stars: 4/5 ⭐️ I'm happy Alex Hirsch is continuing to help make amazing shows. Following Reagan Ridley, voiced by Liszt Caplan, a worker at Cognito Inc. which is a secret government agency that manages the world's conspiracies. And the day she’s promoted to the boss, she gets a co-lead partner, Brett, voiced by Clark Duke, a Yale alumnus, with no good skills except people skills. Inside Job is a show that’s so self-aware that I think it works. There’s an episode including Jeff Bezos which rips apart his treatment of Amazon factory workers, with a flurry of other jokes that poke fun at the problems in the world. There is an episode dealing with lizard people, where the government just lets global warming because it’s the ideal temperature for lizards. An episode dealing with flat earth conspiracists, the moon landing, and how it might be fake, and clones of people that have passed away. This show is also kinda like Rick and Mort, where there are two levels with the jokes. There’s the “haha, funny” level of the jokes, but then also what the jokes mean in a contextualized world. Which can make you laugh, but then also makes you think, which I personally think is the best way to make someone more worldly, by using comedy. The characters as well, are wonderful fun poking fun at what the government might be doing, such as media manipulation and subliminal messaging. But at the central core of Inside Job is Regan’s unstable relationship with her dad, Rand, voiced by Christian Slater. The relationship is wonderful in showing how childhood relationships can mess you up, as a myriad of Regan’s issues come from her childhood, and how her dad wanted her to be a kid prodigy, pushing her to the point of breaking in the final episode. The show also deals with work-life balances, which Reagan doesn’t have, and it shows how unhappy someone can be when that happens. So, Inside Job is a show where you come for the quirky and edgy jokes about government and conspiracies but stay for the depth of the characters.
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