But she doesn’t look, act, sound, or appear like what you think a leader needs to be. She wants to be a leader because she wants to make the world a better place. The most interesting thing about her for me was the idea that she really wanted to be a leader. Tell me more about Reagan as a character. The father-daughter relationship, the relationship between Reagan and Brett were there from the very beginning and that’s the core of the show. But the core of it - the relationships - were pretty much where I started. But you don’t know what a shadow government does. If the show was about working in a diner, you know exactly what a diner does. Shion Takeuchi: The world wasn’t really fully developed yet, in terms of What is this? What is the Shadow government company? What does it do? That had to be figured out because there’s no model for that. Polygon: How has the idea for Inside Job evolved since your college days, and which parts survived becoming a career animation writer? (And check out two exclusive new images from the series below.) On the heels of the show’s trailer, which premiered on Saturday out of Netflix’s Tudum preview event, we sat down with Takeuchi about her approach to making comedy out of the shadow government, how adult animation is changing, what that means as a female showrunner in a male-dominated space, and what she’s bringing from all-ages animation to the adult space. “Most people who work there would be mostly absorbed with their petty, trivial personal lives and just barely getting this job done.” “That just disproves the idea of the shadow government because if there was one it would be barely controlling anything, just out of pure luck and chance,” she recounts. It was the first time she’d heard of the so-called “shadow government,” which initially scared her - but after thinking about it a little bit, she realized that even if a shadow government did exist, actual humans would have to run it. Shion first sparked to the idea back in college, when listening to the late-night AM radio show Coast to Coast AM. However, because of her subpar people skills, she’s assigned a partner in the form of incredibly generic yet incredibly affable Brett Hand (Clark Duke), who’s just happy to be here. ![]() co-founder Rand (Christian Slater) - just wants a chance to lead her own team and step out of her father’s shadow. Reagan Ridley (Lizzy Caplan) an antisocial genius - and daughter of Cognito Inc. ![]() 22 on Netflix, the workplace comedy centers on a company that just so happens to be implementing grandiose schemes on behalf of the secret shadow government, Cognito Inc. ![]() Takeuchi has some experience entertaining the grown-up audience - she also worked on Disenchantment - but Inside Job is her first time serving as showrunner. This year, she trades the Pines twins’ summer vacation adventures for the humdrum of adult working life with her new show Inside Job. Very few animators transition from all-ages to adult animation, but that’s not stopping Gravity Falls writer Shion Takeuchi.
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