B.J. Novak’s ‘The Premise’ Gives the Absurdist Treatment to Absurd Times

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Come for the skewering of woke white boy culture, and stay for the most convincing argument you’ve ever heard for a world-class, high tech butt plug (yes, seriously):

play girlfriends living some sort of happily ever after until Kirke’s character becomes obsessed with an Instagram troll you might think it’s a tongue-in-cheek assessment of anyone whose weekly phone screen time is much higher than could possibly be healthy. There’s also a jab at the religious fervor with which Americans consume popular culture, in an episode in whichplays a Bieber-like pop god with a hipster pastor leaking his misreadings of Biblical parables in the celebrity’s ear.

Mostly, the series aims to understand our often nonsensical modern era while trying to dole out a sense of poetic justice. This is most strongly depicted in the second episode in which Jon Bernthal plays a father whose 5-year-old daughter died in a school shooting. Instead of rallying or protesting the gun lobby, he lands a job in their communications department.

meets the entirety of the very absurd last 18 months . So come for the skewering of woke white boy culture, and stay for the most convincing argument you’ve ever heard for a world-class, high tech butt plug .

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