Try to make sense of Bartlett, Vimeo’s new musical comedy about Silicon Valley
I’d like to explain something, anything, about the trailer you’re about to watch, but I’m truly at a loss here. Like a fever dream filled with manic celebrities and dashed promises, so too descends Bartlett, a musical comedy in which people allegedly sing about Silicon Valley. Also Lin-Manuel Miranda is there for some reason.
The six-part streaming comedy series, headed to Vimeo, will *squints at press release* tackle “timely subjects including office politics, gender, race equality and workplace romance” through the lens of advertising executives in Silicon Valley. It takes place over the course of a single day, following “advertising agency bad boy” Roger Newhouse, played by Anthony Veneziale, a producer / writer / actor for PBS’s...