"W1A" on Netflix [View all]
I just finished watching the three seasons of this series and I found it hilarious. It's about a newly appointed "Head of Values" at the BBC and his navigation of the corporate culture there ("W1A" is the postal code for the BBC's London office building). Kudos to the BBC for producing such a scathing sendup of their own culture. To give you a taste, in one subplot there's a problem with the new-and-improved live-news captioning software: it's good at speech-to-texting everything but proper names, permanently using what the AI figured out on the first try, like "Vladimir Puking" and "Dame Baggy Smith." It's also so bullet-proof they can't figure out how to turn it off and the Head of News briefly considers just taking an axe to the control room.
This is an older series from the twenty-teens but it's disturbingly familiar if you've ever sat through a meeting at a large corporation where most of the people are just saying meaningless things to make it look like they are active participants. David Tennant provides the narration, which gets drier and more absurd as the series progress. I enjoyed it so much I sometimes re-watch episodes just to take a laugh break.
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