Television series

Dream Corp LLC

Name: Dream Corp LLC
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2016
Cast: Jon Gries, Ahmed Bharoocha, Mark Proksch, Nick Rutherford

Absurdist comedy
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Dream Corp LLC is a bizarre workplace comedy where a bumbling scientist and his incompetent team attempt to record and analyze their patients' dreams. Shot with deadpan sincerity, it's surreal and deeply strange—part body horror, part Kafkaesque office nightmare. For people who find conventional comedy exhausting and want something weirder.

TVMaze rating

2.8

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like deadpan, low-stakes absurdity where the joke is how indifferent everyone is to the bizarre, and a dream recorded in a neglected office is funnier than it has any right to be.

Skip it if you need a story that builds, since each week brings new patients and the mood stays flat and shabby on purpose, which some will find tiresome.

What it asks of you: Brief episodes, about fifteen minutes each, come with a deliberately lazy pace; you have to sit with the dullness and catch the jokes hiding inside it.

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Superjail!2007

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Neon Genesis Evangelion1995

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Moral Orel2005

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But The tonal shift from stupid to devastating can feel jarring. Some people never warm to stop-motion animation and the craft won't convert you.

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