Apple TV series + Quit presents a world in which office workers have their minds split into two personalities — one who remembers only what happens at work and one who remembers only what happens outside of it. Science fiction author John Kessel love the show’s creative premise.
“After we watched the first episode, I said to my wife, ‘This is one of the smartest shows I’ve seen in a long time,’ Kessel said on Episode 509 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy audio file. “I rank it—at least through this first season—as high as I do things like Break. I really think it’s classic.”
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agree that Quit is an outstanding series. “This has been my favorite show for the last year or two,” he said. “I think you’ll have to go back to something like Developers or Dark for something that I like as much as this. “
Writer Sara Lynn Michener How do you like it? Quit gives a unique spin on the idea of using robots or clones for nasty tasks. “This is clearly something that we’ve seen over and over again in science fiction,” she said. “Who is the slave? Who is a one-time user group? And so what this show is doing is creating that concept from literally separating yourself in two, and letting that side of yourself become something that you put aside. It is really worrisome. “
Science fiction author Anthony Ha looking forward to Part 2 of Quit but worried that the show might stretch its story out too many episodes. “I really feel like the tempo slows down a bit mid-season, and I wonder if there’s an even better version of it, it’s a ‘one season and done’ story,” he said.
Listen to the full interview with John Kessel, Sara Lynn Michener, and Anthony Ha on Episode 509 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). And check out some highlights from the discussion below.
John Kessel on Franz Kafka:
We’ve watched a whole season and we still don’t know what they do at this corporation. They are rounding the “bad” numbers and discarding them. I kept thinking: Is this a metaphor? Is this connected to something else? The whole idea of great cults and founders, all of that stuff really appeals to me. It reminds me of Kafka, with Experiment or Castle. In Castle, there are these people in the castle running everything, and you never get into the castle — you don’t know who they are or what they’re doing up there. I don’t know if Dan Erickson was specifically thinking about that, but there’s a lot of metaphorical stuff going on here that’s very interesting to me.
Sara Lynn Michener on Patricia Arquette:
Patricia Arquette does a great job on this show. She’s basically playing two different characters, but she’s not cut off. She intentionally has two different characters, and two different names, because she’s tall enough at the company to be able to do that. The character of her work is a very scary, rigid, obsessive person, and then in her “neighborhood” character she becomes a crazy cat lady – she dresses up completely. different from his other characters. So it’s a really great performance by Patricia Arquette because she captures both sides of this crazy, unstable, unsettling human being.
Anthony Ha on set design:
Visual style is not about type”Googleplex, vibrant colors, all glass, open floor plan” Silicon Valley ethos, but it’s more about this older style of work. That’s how I picture the offices my parents went to. The fact that it is a small farm as opposed to a pile of desks. I mean, I think there’s logic in the world for that, because if they all had laptops and sat down and instantly had access to the internet that would defeat the whole purpose of quitting. work, but I think there’s also an emotional logic to it. It is supposed to resemble this nightmare about office life, as opposed to a realistic depiction of current life.
David Barr Kirtley on characteristics:
There is a constant idea that [characters] will get out somehow, and I don’t see a way that really works. Even if they realize that this is this exploitative process, it seems that if the shutdown program is closed and the chips are turned off, all will die. If their agenda is basically “we would all rather die than work for the rest of our lives”, that makes sense, but I feel like the idea has been pushed to the ground. in the program. Looks like they don’t just want to die. It looks like they have little hope of escape, and I’m not sure what they’re imagining is going to happen.
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