Prime Video’s Workplace Horror-Comedy The Consultant Loses Its Edge | TV/Streaming

In a method that’s successfully extra refined than sure energy strikes, “The Consultant” reveals how people like Craig and Elaine could be caught up within the spell, particularly with the promise of upward mobility, being near the boss. With a vampire’s grace, he teases conversations of understanding to achieve entry to their private lives. Craig, initially attempting to buddy up, has a wild experience with Regus, which helps Regus later get nearer to his progressively distant fiancée Patti (Aimee Carrero). And in the midst of Craig and Elaine’s investigations into his background, Elaine chooses to look previous many eccentricities, particularly if it means a option to spruce up her resume. No sci-fi-grade thoughts management is required for these gradual developments—one of many present’s extra incisive statements—however these video games cannot give “The Consultant” the velocity it wants. 

Every at times, “The Consultant” has moments that obtain its desired grace as an allegory, like one mid-season episode that focuses on a aspect character who sacrifices a lot for Faustian work. A hand dropping one useful merchandise into fireplace says a terrific deal, in a trend particular to the tone that Basgallop and his administrators (Matt Shakman, Karyn Kusama, Charlotte Brändström, and others) conjure. But the identical can’t be stated for the outrageous stuff that follows within the subsequent scene, caught up in symbolism and likewise the present’s want for extra chaos. 

Across its eight, half-hour episodes, “The Consultant” struggles to construct a lot of a plot out of its image, generally resorting to utilizing characters like prompts in a online game; different witnesses at CompWare, largely simply sit round with scant collective sentiments like non-playable characters. For all of Patoff’s alarming actions, there isn’t a thick sufficient environment of chaos on this workplace house, which is then paralleled with the creation of a baffling online game, a long-winded metaphor-in-the-making about characters who stroll on glass. 

Basgallop has talked about in interviews that he sees this idea operating for extra seasons, which is weird in itself. No spoilers right here, however the significance of the present’s idea is already hammered in nicely sufficient. Whether it does get one other shot, “The Consultant” has solely restricted energy as a metaphor, and even much less in order an apparent precautionary story. 

All of season one was screened for evaluate. “The Consultant” premieres in full on Prime Video tomorrow, February twenty fourth. 

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The Consultant starring Christoph Waltz, Brittany O’Grady, Nat Wolff and Aimee Carrero arrives on Prime February 24, 2023. ” SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/PrimeVideoSubscribe About Prime Video: Want to watch it now? We’ve got it. This week’s newest movies, last night’s TV shows, classic favorites, and more are available to stream instantly, plus all your videos are stored in Your Video Library.