Over two or three days last week, we watched the entire first season of one of the few sitcoms left on television, Better Off Ted.
Part of why it works, I think, is because it doesn’t try to ground itself in reality. It is a satire of the corporate world and does not pretend to be anything other than satire.
Oddly enough, the least realistic part of it is not the thought that a corporation would try to quick-freeze one of its scientists for a year just to see what would happen. It was that Ted, the head of R&D for this corporation, is not a blood-sucking leech of a man.
He’s actually rather decent, though he does have his rather corporate moments.
It would be a little difficult to develop a show people would want to watch if the main character were thoroughly unlikable.
