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Consultio/Consultius, or a “just us, a pile of Chinese food and a couple of fuck-off spreadsheets”.Alan Johnson’s tide of jargon wouldn’t sound out of place coming out of Kendall or Roman’s mouths – they would just deliver it more sincerely. “Tonight should be a free-fire ideas zone,” says Johnson in season four. “Watch a DVD, eat some pizza, fuck each other. I’m serious. Fuck a chicken, if that’s what it takes. Watch a chicken fucking a horse.
The spurious projects and tasks handed out to those desperate to do Logan’s bidding – “Daddy make work”, as Kendall puts it to Shiv in: this is more skewering of corporate bullshit, but also an examination of the way people exploit their power and shy away from dirty work. Mark drives himself insane trying to deliver on Johnson’s “Project Zeus”, a pointless project attempting to merge sales and marketing . Eventually, he just jumps out the window and hides in a car park.
Armstrong’s cynicism leaves nobody unscathed: all ideology – down to Mark’s uptight rule-following and Jeremy’s selfish wasterism – comes under fire. Ribbing and consequently dismantling the structures on which people build their identities, whether that’s Jez saying “fuck you, Bush” or Tom Wambsgans mocking a woman for the size of her handbag, naturally penetrates their armour.
Armstrong also understands deeply the pathos of ambition, and the delusions of grandeur that most people harbour. In, which he paid £2,000 to have published by a scam publishing house who misprinted his name on the cover. On, the characters have millions of dollars to throw at their lofty ambitions: buying legacy media companies, trying to become president. But the atmosphere is the same: one of desperation and pettiness.
There is a fine line between comedy and tragedy. This Armstrong knows well. “In the writers’ room, we have occasionally had a kind of recurring phrase,”
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