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Inside Job (2021)

Inside Job poster
Genre
science fiction comedy, science fiction television program, animated sitcom, political satire, anime-influenced animation, comedy television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 18 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
8.1 of 10 from 984 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The show follows a team of fed-up employees who work for a secret agency that keeps all the world's conspiracy theories under wraps. The main character is a brilliant but socially awkward scientist who tries to navigate office politics while dealing with bizarre cover-ups.

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What happens

Inside Job (stylized in lowercase) is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Shion Takeuchi for Netflix. The series premiered on October 22, 2021. Takeuchi, a former Gravity Falls writer, acts as showrunner and is an executive producer alongside Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch and BoJack Horseman director Mike Hollingsworth. The series received positive reviews for its writing, humor, animation, voice acting and social commentary. The series' ten-episode first part was released on October 22, 2021, with an eight-episode second part released the following year on November 18, 2022. In June 2022, the series was renewed for a second season consisting of 20 episodes; however, in January 2023, Takeuchi announced that Netflix had cancelled the series following the release of Part 2, ending it with a cliffhanger. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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