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2021-10-27T09:49:48.508Z


The first adult animated series created in Netflix's new home studio attracts viewers because of the promise to make fun of fans of ridiculous contact theories


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No jokes about vaccine opponents, but with a lot of heart: Do not miss this gem on Netflix

"Inside Job", the first adult animated series created in Netflix's new home studio, draws viewers to it because of its promise to make fun of fans of ridiculous contact theories.

But beneath the surface, a complex plot develops that leaves viewers with a taste for more

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Trailer for the series "Pulling the Wires" (Netflix)

Who did you call sheep?

Reagan and Brett in "The Pullers in the Wires" (Photo: Netflix)

Stories about a woman who died, no matter what the reason, and came to the gates of heaven. God comes and blesses her in his own right. "You can ask me one question about life," he suggests to her. The lady does not stop for a moment and says, "The truth is I always wanted to know if vaccines really cause autism." God looks at her compassionately and exclaims, "No, not at all. There is no connection between vaccines and autism." The woman nods her head in disappointment and mutters: "Unbelievable, they even bought it."



The truth is that jokes about vaccine opponents, like many of the vaccine opponents themselves, do not age well. This is probably why even in Netflix's new animated series, "Pulling the Wires" (or "Inside Job" originally), which revolves around popular conspiracy theories, hardly refers to "Big Pharma". On the other hand, Netflix may not have wanted to take part in one of the most heated debates in America today,Precisely in one of her first attempts at format.



More precisely, it should be understood that officially, "Pulling the Threads" is the first adult animated series produced by Netflix.

This may be confusing, probably after we saw on the streaming giant original series like "Bugek Horseman", "Big Mouth" and "Love, Death and Robots", but this is the first time Netflix has produced an adult animated series in its new home studio, and left no work The animation for an outdoor studio.

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The most twisted relationship between parent and child since "Mr. Robot," and again Christian Slater as the father.

Reagan and her father in "The Pullers in the Wires" (Photo: Netflix)

Putting aside the puzzling choice to ignore the all-relevant vaccine conspiracies, this is a classic adult animated series. So classic that it's hard at first to shake off the feeling we've already been watching. The background story and animation make you feel like a weird crossover of "Rick and Morty" and "Gravity Falls" (the creator of the latter, Alex Hirsch, is a senior producer here), it has touches of "Archer" and "Men in Black", until finally Everything connects to a kind of combination of "Futurama" meets "Bags in the Dark".



Somehow, despite all the references and similarities to old animated series, whether as a homage or as an unconscious literary theft, the series stands on its own. This happens mainly thanks to the main character of Reagan (Lizzie Kaplan), an anti-social genius who suffers from severe father complications, whose dream is to head the organization "Cognito Ltd." (pun on the word "incognito").



The company Reagan dreams of running is actually Deep State, the same shadow government that controls behind the scenes in what's really going on in the world.

You have already heard about them in the tweets of Donald Trump and Yair Netanyahu, but now is the opportunity to see how the mechanism that rules the world works.

This is the company that makes sure you do not know that lizard people roam among us, Bigfoot is a real creature (but an antipath), the US president is actually a robot run by billionaires and landing on the moon on stage by Stanley Kubrick. By the way, the dark side of the moon is still full of Nazis.

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The president is actually a robot, and the CEO of the shadow organization actually wants a good world. An irony is refined at its best (Photo: Netflix)

While the big-pharma conspiracies as well as Donald Trump's "big lie" theory have been left out, the series is not afraid to laugh at some of the most powerful and influential people in America. The richest man in the world Jeff Bezos is portrayed as an evil Bond villain whose weak point is toilet breaks, Mark Zuckerberg is a lizard man, and so is Taylor Swift, while Oprah Winfrey heads the Illuminati - the rival company. Even 91-year-old astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step on the moon and an American hero, receives unpleasant treatment at all.



But in her wisdom, the creator of the series Sion Takauchi chose not to place conspiracy theories at the center, but to use them as a clever and appealing plot background into the complex world of its main characters. This is not a series that laughs at conspiracies and conspirators (except for those who believe in the "flat world" theory who receive unique and laugh-out-loud treatment), but adopts them for the purpose of deepening the daily story. Just as "The Office" is not a series on paper products, so "Thread Pullers" uses the chaotic work environment to make us identify with the characters.



Reagan's character is the basis for the entire series, and it is also amazing to present the most basic conflict in it: a good woman with rare abilities, who wants to advance and make a name for herself in corporate America, who reaches a leadership position and reveals only cynicism and power games.

The power of Reagan's neurotic and unskilled skills is revealed when, despite the harsh truth she is exposed to by virtue of her role, she still wants to make the world a better place.

This simple irony drives the series accurately without feeding viewers a spoon.

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Revealed the bullshit of vaccine opponents a decade ago.

Penn and Teller (Photo: GettyImages)

Surrounding Reagan's main character is an amusing crew made up of Brett (Clark Duke, "The Office," "Dead on Stage"), a handsome rookie in need of regular environmental reinforcements, something between Morty from "Rick and Morty" and Fry from "Futurama"; There’s also Glenn Dolphman (John DiMaggio, “Futurama”), a half-man-half dolphin who is a parody of every military character in Hollywood history; Gigi (Tisha Campbell) is the ultimate PR / firefighter, and of course Magic Mike (Brett Gelman, "Flybag", "Strange Things"), a psychedelic magic mushroom with a very sexual consciousness and personality, which draws a lot of inspiration from Bender from "Futurama" and also from Alien Roger from "American Dad."



In parallel with the "office" story, we are slowly but cleverly exposed to the connection between Reagan and her father Rand (Christian Slater, in a role remarkably similar to his role in "Mr. Robot"), who previously headed the organization.

The problematic relationship between the father and his daughter turns the series from another harmless-animated-that-can-fall-asleep-into-a-gloomy creation, with a psychological plot that builds slowly and culminates with the end of the first 10-episode season.

This is probably how Rick and Morty would have looked if the creators had liked the characters they created more.

The result is not a "duty to watch" but it certainly delivers the goods more than expected.

For the avoidance of doubt, Netflix has pre-ordered 20 episodes, so the sequel will come, and there is definitely something to look forward to.

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In small

While Netflix has meanwhile chosen not to mess with vaccine conspiracy theorists, Cellcom TV has decided to pull out of the lobby the "bullshit" of Penn and Teller, which was added this month to the company's VOD service.

The series, which went off the screens more than a decade ago, ran for eight seasons on the "Showtime" network, with each episode selecting the pair of entertainers-magicians a particular theme, and presenting it with ridicule while presenting cutting-edge scientific evidence.

From feng shui, through fortune tellers to circumcision.

Cellcom decided to distribute one episode of the series each week.

In the first week, the first episode of the show, which aired in 2003, aired, while in the second week, the 89th episode of the show, which aired in 2010, aired.

Incidentally, a chapter (bursting with laughter) about vaccine opponents.

Beautiful work by Big Pharma!

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