FX’s workplace comedy feels like a high-school throwback that’s firmly planted in the here and now.
, the delightful new FX comedy that runs for eight 20-minute episodes, would be the perfect show to follow HBO’son Sundays. If the latter is a brutal look at what work—or, more accurately, work conditional on making money, no matter how humanity-crushing the tactics—does to people, the former is a mostly sunny one that’d make for a nice, light palate cleanser.
This isn’t to suggest that the workplace show from creator Brian Jordan Alvarez, who also stars and co-writes and -directs, shies away from dark or complicated topics or is wary of going deep. Most episodes, in fact, are centered on or at least mention the High School Issues Of This Insanely Divisive Political Moment: drag performances, book bans, school shootings, ChatGPT-penned papers, homophobia, A.I. porn, and the like.
A workplace comedy’s success rests on the chemistry between these colleagues and whether those dynamics are strong and well-drawn enough to make viewers want to hang out with them week to week.
Like with the cream of this genre, the guest characters here also deliver, particularly a drag artist who teaches football players how to properly perform for the school’s powderpuff game. And on a field trip, an extremely handsy parent chaperone is obsessed with keeping teens from engaging in new sex trends like “tip licking,” “no-loads-refused cum dumpster,” “reverse glory hole,” and, the funniest of the bunch, “stone facing.
Admittedly, the show does have some loose ends , but, as only the first six of eight episodes were screened for critics, here’s hoping those are tied up by the season finale. That likely-not-actually-a-quibble quibble aside,is largely a treat, a story that nods to classic high-school-movie tropes, complete with ’80s-pop needle drops—“She Drives Me Crazy,” “I Can Dream About You,” “Maniac,” “Gloria”—and purple-neon-cursive title cards, yet could only be told today.
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