Ben Stiller’s New Series Is a Sci-Fi Take on Office Space

Such as Mr. Corman about a school teacher who used to work in a classroom but due to COVID is working from home.

Or Acapulco a comedy series about a twenty-something cabana boy who works at the hottest resort in Acapulco during the heady days of the 80s.

And for people who prefer a side-hustle, there's Physical which tells the story of a housewife that starts running aerobics classes in her spare time while successfully launching an accompanying home video lifestyle startup.

It also has the best motion graphics integrations of social media I’ve seen. It breaks new ground in the way House of Cards did with texting.

The Apple Original sci-fi series, Invasion, is terrible. I can’t believe they renewed it for a second season.

Here's the straightforward guide to everything named Apple TV:

Apple TV – the separate hardware box that runs tvOS, connects to your TV and enables you to view streaming apps developed specifically for this platform on your TV

Apple TV app - an application that runs on the Apple TV hardware box, iOS, macOS and third party TV platforms (Google TV, WebOS, Tizen)

Apple TV+ - the Apple streaming service that provides access to Apple Original TV and Movies that is accessible through the Apple TV app on all supported platforms

Apple TV Channels – third party streaming services (such as Paramount+) that can be subscribed via the Apple TV app whereby the subscription management and streaming data is handled by Apple and not the third party steaming service

So simple!

Cinematically gorgeous but that's about it.

The author of the article (assuming, as is usually the case, they aren't also the author of the headline) doesn't mention Office Space at all.

Do they really? I expect most people on HN to know it, but I’m not so sure about the general population. It’s one of my favourite movies and I often found myself referencing it in office settings, but had to stop because nobody got them, not even once. Most people hadn’t heard of it, and the few who had seen it didn’t like it.

I think Mike Judge is an absolute genius, but none of his movies have performed well commercially. Maybe they lack mass appeal, most people simply never experience toxic work environments, or they do, but fail to recognise it as such. Or the movies were just under-marketed. Whatever the cause, these things aren’t exactly household names.

It may be a buggered memory, but I don't recall seeing a movie about reverse engineering often.

Back to the self critique of capitalism, I see punk as a prime example of that, it's what I think allowed capitalism to navigate through the turbulent (from a socio-economic point of view) late '70s - early '80s as well as it did. Grunge, on a smaller scale, did the same thing for the Western capitalism of the early '90s, shows like "Black Mirror" did that for the creeping surveillance capitalism of the mid 2010s (we now say "it's just like in a Black Mirror episode", without taking any concrete steps to mitigate the surveillance capitalism creeping in on us).

i discuss most of the shows i watch with my friends. when they come out weekly, then we have a discussion about the new episode every week. if they come out at once, then not much discussion happens.

so yes, weekly releases are definitely more engaging.

I binged a few decent shows then cancelled before my 1 week trial was up. It's cheaper than most but has very little content (and the worst "search" function you've ever seen - maybe these are related).