“For those who work remotely, you have exactly one hour to get here in person or your contract will be terminated”. Few words could strike such fear into the hearts of a post-pandemic employee as these, barked by Christoper Waltz’s Regus Patoff in the opening episode of Amazon’s new dark workplace thriller The Consultant.
Based on a novel of the same name by Bentley Little, the twisted eight-part series sees serial baddie Waltz (Inglorious Basterds, Spectre/No Time to Die) as a mysterious Ukrainian consultant (with a mysteriously German accent) who arrives unannounced in the middle of the night and takes charge of video game company CompWare, after its director is shot dead in his office by a disturbed child visiting on a school trip. The whole thing is eerily similar, apparently, to the same violent games that the organisation produces.
