Workaholics
2011
Original language: English
- comedy
The story
The misadventures of three recent college dropouts, roommates, and co-workers at a telemarketing company and their drug dealer.
What it’s like
Bright, flat fluorescent light over cubicle rows and cheap beige office carpet, cut with the warm, slightly sun-faded look of a shared apartment where the blinds are always half-drawn. The camera is handheld and loose, often jammed into the middle of a three-person argument or a stretch of hanging around, with quick zooms and frequent awkward cuts to talking-head asides that feel like the characters are confiding in you. The sound is a steady bed of phone rings, office chatter, and stoner-friendly pop and hip-hop cues, with sitcom laugh-track rhythm pushing each gag forward. The vibe is scruffy, loud, and affectionately aimless: lazy-afternoon sitcom energy with a slacker edge. It suits a background half-watch while cooking, a comfort rewatch on a weekday night, or a group of friends wanting something easy to laugh at together. Pacing is brisk, with episodes built around short escalating schemes and running gags, and the emotional register stays light, with the three leads' friendship as the steady center. Drug use, crude humor, and sexual innuendo are constant but played for comedy rather than seriousness; violence is slapstick and minor, and there is no real menace or gore. It is for people who want raunchy, goofy workplace comedy about young men who would rather be anywhere else.
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