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10 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
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- #001
Tony Basgallop adapted Bentley Little's novel of the same name for television and served as creator and executive producer; Christoph Waltz, Matt Shakman, Steve Stark, Andrew Mittman and Kai Dolbashian joined him as producers.
- #002
Christoph Waltz played the lead role of Regus Patoff and was part of the producing team.
- #003
Filming on the series began in December 2021 and was scheduled to run until May 2022; Brittany O'Grady and Nat Wolff joined the cast in December 2021, and Aimee Carrero joined in March 2022.
- #004
Amazon released the series' first teaser on 3 January 2023 and announced a premiere date of 24 February 2023.
- #005
On Rotten Tomatoes the series earned an 80% approval rating based on reviews from 44 critics, while on Metacritic it scored 65 out of 100, placing it in the 'generally favorable' category.
- #006
John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal praised Waltz's performance while criticizing the series' editing and pacing, noting the habit of eight-episode structures to string viewers along with unresolved questions.
- #007
The Hollywood Reporter's Daniel Fienberg said the series sometimes felt frantic and sometimes overly stretched, and that it lacked stylistic consistency between episodes; he found Waltz's performance watchable but wrote that it recalled the actor's previous roles too strongly.
- #008
Annie Burke of The A.V. Club compared the series unfavorably to the Apple TV+ production Severance, but found the production design of the fictional workplace successful as a character, narrative device and motif.
- #009
Kristen Baldwin of Entertainment Weekly described the series' story as 'wonderfully weird and darkly funny,' praising Waltz's quiet menace, O'Grady's wary longing and Wolff's winning vulnerability.
- #010
As of 2025, Prime Video had neither officially cancelled the series nor renewed it for a second season.
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