Directed by Sean King O’Grady, and written by Jeffrey David Thomas, Hulu’s The Mill stars Lil Rel Howery as a corporate employee named Joe, who wakes up in a prison cell. Horror fans know Howery best as the comic relief in Jordan Peele’s Get Out, but here, Howery is deadly serious as a man trying to survive. Joe pissed off his company by using a few too many of those unlimited PTO days, and now he’s forced to do meaningless manual labor to reach a set quota daily. It may not be the most subtle example of corporate horror, but it sure will hit close to home for any employee tasked with an impossible, stock-driven quota. Nothing says “late-stage capitalism has reached a breaking point” like the recent rise of horror movies and TV about white-collar work!
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