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| Prime Video | Season Premiere Date: February 24, 2023 |
Summary:
Consultant Regus Patoff (Christoph Waltz) is hired to help a gaming company improve its business in this comedic thriller based on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the same name.
Genre(s):
Comedy, Suspense
Season 1 Episodes
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Collider
Feb 23, 2023
I was blown away by just how bizarre it all was (in a good way, of course). ... It's that never-ending sense of enigma that makes The Consultant such a thoroughly enjoyable watch. You'll spend days trying to puzzle out the ending, piece together Regus' master plan (if he even has one), or even just trying to make up your mind about whether he's a villain or a hero.
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Feb 23, 2023
The Daily Beast
Feb 23, 2023
Even if Waltz’s protagonist is ultimately an easy riddle to decipher, and his tale isn’t as expansive as it could be, The Consultant paints a cynical portrait of 21st-century business as a ruthless arena in which the means always justify the ends. ... Yet in Basgallop and Waltz’s assured hands, it’s nonetheless delivered with a humorous amount of bite.
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The Guardian
Feb 24, 2023
Many questions. But all, I suspect, with answers, and not very complex ones at that. That – along with the spooky basement records room opened by a key with a giant brass keyring stamped “RECORDS”, and a decadent members-only nightclub that has transformed into generic office space by morning and assorted other hokum essentials – is what makes it fun, and perfectly, perfectly fine. As I said: no more, no less.
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The Observer (UK)
Sep 10, 2024
Feb 23, 2023
The show is best when it keeps the action to this space, and, with Prime Video dropping all eight episodes at once, viewers can binge the series as a four-hour movie and easily imagine it as a kind of filmed stage-play. The bugs of this program come in on the level of script and story.
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Feb 23, 2023
We never see an ordinary workday, and we have so little sense of the characters’ personal lives that any mention of them feels jarring. They seem to exist only as lenses through which to view the ensuing chaos, not least of which because the series fails to drum up a plausible reason for Craig and Elaine to stop shopping their résumés around and stay at CompWare. Viewers, luckily, are under no such obligation.
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Feb 27, 2023
Had to binge watch the whole series. Surprising,refreshing,suspenseful and plenty of bizarre moments. I hope they make a second season. We kinda get a picture of what’s happening but a lot is left open for interpretation and that may be a good thing :)
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Feb 26, 2023
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Feb 26, 2023
great acting, nice weird story and mysteries and also funny moments, you want to know what happens next and keep watching. I watched it now 2 times and will watch it again.
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Feb 26, 2023
Great Acting, Enjoyable to Watch, Like a Modern 8-Episode Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.
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Feb 26, 2023
Good show but gets boring in the middle of the season, the story is good, Chris Waltz is playing amazing as usual.
I wouldn't recommend to watch for people that like stories moving quick.
I wouldn't recommend to watch for people that like stories moving quick.
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Air Date: February 24, 2023
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