Just starting 2nd season. Consistently funny and bent. The story line is, as the intro says, the same every show, but the writing acting and direction are wacked. Not a sitcom and better than most "comedic" series.

This show had so much potential. With Don Cheadle and the always delightful Kristen Bell it should've been a slam dunk. But it's not. Here's why:1. The concept of "fixers" coming into a company and saving it using unscrupulous methods is not a new concept. The problem is other shows do it better.2. The series starts as out edgy and badass with all the corporate politics. But very quickly it turned into a horrible daytime drama.3. The "breaking the fifth wall" commentary by the main character was interesting at first but then he ran out of things to say so it just became awkward.4. There is zero chemistry between Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell. And I mean ZERO. Their "relationship" is total crap.Bottom line, skip it.

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.

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.