Schwarz, Cheadle, Hansen and Bell crackle with nervous energy.
Are you like me?
Have you been a marketer? Business developer? Junior executive?
Maybe you’ve shopped for vendors: software companies, management experts, processors, each promising to save you something. Maybe you’ve been privy to boardroom meetings. .
Maybe – god forbid – you’ve even sat through upper management retreats, all responsibility and thought turned over to smiling management consultants, eager to tell you you’re great – but something unknown can make you oh-so-much-better. They can’t tell you what this is, of course. After you’re gone, presumably you and your team will be brilliant enough to figure it out.
Or to ask for more help. (But from where?)
House of Lies, an innovative and promising satire from Showtime promises to lift the curtain on lucrative “management consultancy.” The premiere featured just enough Better Off Ted – the pitch-perfect lampoon of fruitless corporate America – coupled with a healthy dose of smarming Franklin & Bash. In other words, tonally and substantively, it’s already a success, Like a consultant’s seminar, for the rest of the season, it’s up to you to catch on.
The critic’s lament: What to do with a movie you’re not supposed to like, but works anyway?
The protagonist seems like the easiest part of a book. How else does the author’s story come together?
You probably haven’t read 
I’ve got white-guy problems. I’ve had them all my life. As a writer and reader, I’m drawn to tales of frustrated white guys careening through their 20s with no direction, hope or meaning. It happens to the best of us.
You’re just not prepared for the voice.
Chuck Klosterman has his share of detractors.
Drew Magary is the rare writer who exudes talent yet fails to prompt scorn. At least in me.
I really did. The swirl of hype around 
First, I’m back. Your favorite cantankerous marketing pro and erstwhile writer. But things gotta change.
I’m most active via social. I’m also funnier via social. 
