All eight episodes of Prime Video’s new present The Consultant made their debut Friday, permitting of us to fly by way of everything of the office saga like the degrees of an addicting cellular sport.
The present a couple of office that will get a weird new boss stars Christoph Waltz as Regus Patoff, Nat Wolff as Craig, Brittany O’Grady as Elaine and Aimee Carrero as Patti. I binge-watched the darkly comedic sequence and loved it, however I felt just like the ending stored some rewards simply out of attain.
What about Craig and Elaine’s will-they-or-won’t-they dynamic? Is Craig nonetheless an worker at CompWare? How does Regus actually have a golden skeleton? Is he even human?
These questions may, after all, be addressed in a second season. Whereas we wait to see if season 2 goes to occur, that is what we did be taught from the season 1 finale of Prime Video’s new sequence, which is predicated on Bentley Little’s 2015 novel of the identical title.
Artistic liaison no extra
As a refresher, The Guide follows Regus Patoff, a mysterious stranger who takes over at a cellular sport studio known as CompWare after the sudden demise of its CEO, Mr. Sang. Younger staff Craig and Elaine subsequently expertise new calls for and challenges, similar to Patoff’s absurd, honest request to Elaine to launch a real-life elephant in downtown LA to advertise the cellular sport Mr. Sang’s Jungle Odyssey.
Elaine enlists her ex-boyfriend Patrice to do the deed for $20,000, the funds Patoff allotts for her. Then Patoff solely provides her half for him upfront. Within the finale, Patrice returns to CompWare to gather the opposite half.
The finale reveals the elephant died after it was shot with tranquilizers. Patoff takes his candy time to seem at CompWare, which is in full get together mode after the discharge of Mr. Sang’s Jungle Odyssey, after which tells Elaine that Patrice’s cash went towards the festivities.
Elaine, performed by Brittany O’Grady, took the reins from Patoff at CompWare.
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Undeterred, Elaine comes up with a chilly plan to trick Patrice into ready longer for fee whereas she anonymously suggestions him off to the authorities.
When Patoff appeared at CompWare, he shook up the corporate with heartless terminations, rushed sport launches, and extra so as to supposedly enhance the enterprise. On the finish of the finale, Elaine approaches the boss’ workplace, seemingly signaling she’s CompWare’s subsequent CEO.
Regus and Craig’s showdown
If Elaine is counted as a winner on this darkish story, Craig is the most important loser. Although Mr. Sang’s Jungle Odyssey would not exist with out him, on the get together within the finale, he is solely disinterested. His fiance, Patti, seems to have left him after he lied about being sick to spend time wanting into Patoff. However Patoff has intervened of their relationship greater than Craig is aware of. Patti did not ghost him – as an alternative, she’s typing up handwritten textual content for Patoff in CompWare’s data room.
Within the finale, Craig lastly learns the reality after he and Elaine handle to find Patti’s cellphone. It is not Patti who has it, however Sang’s mom who disappeared some episodes again, and she or he was given the cellphone by Patoff.
Craig and Elaine hurry again to CompWare. Elaine goes after Patti and an enraged Craig takes on Patoff. He grabs a big mallet used for an exercise through the get together and walks nearer and nearer to his evil boss.
Craig repeatedly hits and cracks the glass beneath the each of them on the higher flooring, and it is harking back to Mr. Sang’s Jungle Odyssey, during which glass breaks below the burden of heavy animals. Patoff tells Craig that his targets have been met, and prices have been justified, gesturing to Craig as a “value.”
Craig, who’d gotten a tip from the jewellery retailer proprietor Frank Florez that Patoff may, in some way, include a skeleton of strong gold, appears to wager on that as he smashes the glass. And Patoff does, finally, fall by way of.
Craig does not get the lady
Earlier than Patoff slips by way of the glass, a few get together tables breaking his fall, he tells Craig “you are not the hero. You do not even get the lady.” It is not instantly clear who he is speaking about.
Elaine (Brittany O’Grady) and Craig (Nat Wolff) appeared like they may have been extra than simply work buddies.
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Craig’s relationship with Patti seems to finish within the finale. We see her with curler baggage leaving a key with Craig. We additionally see Elaine taking a look at a file within the data room with Craig’s title on it.
Craig’s lies to Patti are little doubt a crimson flag, even when they weren’t appropriate. Patoff additionally explains within the finale that when Patti was within the data room (and seemingly in some kind of trance), she helped Patoff full his file. “She’s seen your weak spot, your betrayal, she poured it out on each web page in her personal phrases,” Patoff says. Might he have performed this to make sure Craig by no means had a shot at Elaine both? If there is a season 2, we would must see these characters return to complete what was began.
Regus’ golden inside
When Regus takes his fateful tumble, certainly one of his huge toes is sliced off and lands in a pile of leftover get together shrimp.
It is retrieved by Craig, who freezes it, boils and de-fleshes it to disclose a shiny golden bone.
So Patoff is actually fabricated from gold. Is that why he has a lot bother lugging his physique up and down flights of stairs? Does that imply he is not human? How may he be?
It is unveiled in an earlier episode that jewellery retailer proprietor Frank Florez made the golden skeleton for Patoff, and the expertise principally ruined Florez’s marriage. There’s in all probability some deeper that means right here, however I may additionally see a personality like Patoff getting gold physique components on the expense of a poor man’s happiness simply because that is what he likes to do.
One factor stands out as hinting that Patoff may not be human. Florez by no means really noticed Patoff in individual whereas he crafted the bones. Nonetheless, he did obtain checks with Patoff’s signature. How may he have signed a test with no functioning hand?
Craig, performed by Nat Wolff, learns concerning the golden skeleton from Frank Florez.
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Regus will get outcomes
Patoff received Mr. Sang to log off on him taking up by promising to safe Mr. Sang’s legacy. By the finale, Patoff had certainly reversed CompWare’s dire course. Sang’s mom suggests her son is alive by way of Mr. Sang’s Jungle Odyssey. A unadorned statue model of Sang watches over a bustling CompWare.
“All I can actually inform you about Regus Patoff,” Elaine may be heard saying on the finish of the episode, “he will get outcomes,”
Simply do not take into consideration what it took to get there.
Patoff misplaced a dear huge toe, however it did not preserve him from taking his companies to yet one more firm, Pterodactyl Robotics. A information report enjoying on the finish reveals the demise of its founder, who strived to develop the primary humanoid workforce. If Patoff is certainly really a robotic, possibly he’ll lastly discover some colleagues he can higher relate to.
