Prime Video’s latest offering, The Consultant, is perfectly fine. No more, no less. It is a dark workplace comedy-thriller satire on capitalism with supernatural undertones, or possibly overtones. It’s a bit like watching a small mammal press levers for rewards in a lab experiment. Will the viewer like this? Or this? What about this? It’s just having a go and hoping something good happens.
The first thing we see in The Consultant is a group of middle-schoolers visiting cool gaming company CompWare, only for one of their pre-pubescent number to draw a gun on the founder/CEO Sang (Brian Yoon) and shoot him dead. Blimey! Perhaps it’s a biting critique of gun laws, too. Or school trips.
