There is a Light That Will Never Go Out: "Office Space"
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In the last decade, a distinctive scent of despair has come to envelope America. Recently, I've been noticing it particularly strongly in the world of television. In Mike White's White Lotus, on HBO, a group of wealthy tourists at a resort in Hawaii rather blithely wreak havoc on the lives of the employees and on themselves. The tenor of the whole is not so much one of human indignation as it is of a kind of assumed negativity on the part of the audience: we all know people tend to be weak if not downright odious, the show seems to be saying to us, so let's have some fun rubbing our faces it.
There is a Light That Will Never Go Out: "Office Space"
There is a Light That Will Never Go Out…
There is a Light That Will Never Go Out: "Office Space"
In the last decade, a distinctive scent of despair has come to envelope America. Recently, I've been noticing it particularly strongly in the world of television. In Mike White's White Lotus, on HBO, a group of wealthy tourists at a resort in Hawaii rather blithely wreak havoc on the lives of the employees and on themselves. The tenor of the whole is not so much one of human indignation as it is of a kind of assumed negativity on the part of the audience: we all know people tend to be weak if not downright odious, the show seems to be saying to us, so let's have some fun rubbing our faces it.