Cutting Ties, a five-part episodic from IFC about “a young man stuck in a lackluster corporate career,” is perhaps harder to sympathize with given the current economic meltdown. Of course that’s not the creator’s fault, but it is the unfortunate backdrop to a story that essentially dares the unsatisfied at work to brave the bear market. The star of Cutting Ties is Evan (Peter Neudel), a middle-management employee at a non-descript company. Every day, Evan wakes up in a house he can’t afford, puts on a bad tie, and shares a breakfast with his wife that could not be more silent and detached if it were at an Amish prayer service. Evan commutes to a job whose business, although intentionally undefined, surely dabbles in the mass-production of cynicism. Evan’s co-workers are all tremendous a$$holes, every one of them. They point and wink, and if you’re late for work,...
- 4/6/2009
- by Michael Neal
- Tilzy.tv
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