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The first is a familiar workplace hangout sitcom, andMythic Questis pretty good at that part.
That kind of show isnt often revolutionary or revelatory, but it can be intensely satisfying.
In its second season, this part ofMythic Questgets to lean on the workits first season already accomplished.
We like these characters!
Ragtag weirdos and their daily frustrations that are just excuses for us to spend more time with them?
Great, hit play and keep em coming.
ButMythic Questruns on twin engines.
Not a boss and a subordinate, but partners.
together with it is very hard to make good art.
The workplace comedy is something that can happen in a gentle, solve-it-and-forget-it world.
The questions it cares about most are all the legitimately harder ones.
What do you do when no one else thinks your art is good?
How do you remake a personally toxic but creatively fruitful relationship into something more balanced, more healthy?
(Can you even do that, without losing the creative success?)
Whats the value of everyone loving your art if you secretly hate it?
Thats a lot to tackle in nine half-hour comedy episodes!
AndMythic Questseason twodoesnt always pull it off.
Plus, the episodes can be really uneven.
(That bottle episode also features great work from Carol, the recurring HR manager played by Naomi Ekperigin.
Making Ekperigin a series regular is high on my wish-list for aMythic Questseason three.)
The video gaming elements are sometimes big and dumb.
That perspective is sincere.
As the show emphasizes, though, the game Poppy and Ian want to make and the stories C.W.
wants to write can also be meaningful, thoughtful, careful, sincere works of art.
Its also not hard to love a show that takes itself this seriously while also laughing at itself.
After all, most of its observations about video games could just as easily apply to any TV series.
How to make it accessible but original?
How to balance creative desire with financial pressure?
