Mythic Quest

A successful online game needs somebody to imagine it, somebody to build it and somebody to work out how it earns money. Mythic Quest puts those interests in the same office and lets them disagree.

Rob McElhenney's Ian and Charlotte Nicdao's Poppy give the creative partnership plenty of friction. A good idea and the ability to implement it are not interchangeable, and neither guarantees a pleasant colleague. The supporting departments have their own priorities, so a supposedly shared objective rarely means a shared understanding.

The game-studio setting is a useful variation on workplace comedy, particularly when the practical details generate the joke. The broader character behaviour was not enough to keep me watching, however, and I would not place it ahead of the stronger comedies here.

Silicon Valley is my first comparison for technology, ego and commercial pressure. Mythic Quest may appeal more if the continuing relationship between creative direction and actual production is the part of that workplace you find most interesting.