Inside Job: Whoas-Feratu – review

Directors: Mike Bertino & Vitaliy Strokous (supervising director)

First aired: 2022

Contains spoilers

Inside Job is an animated series that follows Regan Ridley (Lizzy Caplan, True Blood & Castle Rock) as a member of Cognito Inc, the Deep State function that secretly rules the world (along with five other secret societies) and the premise is that many conspiracy theories are true.

Hollywood vampires

When we first meet her, she is socially awkward but a genius who lives with her father, Rand (Christian Slater, Interview with the Vampire), he being an ex-Cognito employee who was sacked when he became alcoholic and unstable. By this episode, which is the second of season 2, Rand has become the despotic CEO of Cognito, Inc.

showing off Keanu

Rand is excited as his ex-wife, Tamiko (Suzy Nakamura), is visiting the office (he assumes to rekindle their marriage). However, she has only come to show off her new boyfriend, Keanu Reeves (Roger Craig Smith, Marvel’s Avengers Assemble: Blood Feud) and not invite everyone to the premier of his new film. Rand hatches a plot to lure her away from Reeves but Regan has a more mellow outlook on life (since she started a secret affair with an Illuminati agent) and approves of the relationship…

caught

That is until she accidentally sees Keanu hooked to a blood transfuser, with a goblet of blood to drink. Keanu, like many of the male A list in Hollywood, is much older than he makes out. Indeed he is around 400 and a vampire who drinks/transfuses the blood of young women to maintain his youth. After getting the inside scoop from the Illuminati, Regan goes out of her way to kill him. Through their fight we discover that crosses do not impact him but her cross contains an electrified sword and she also has a garlic gun.

garlic ammo

I really thought this episode was good fun. I’ve enjoyed the series to be fair but the idea of the A listers being vampires particularly tickled me. The Keanu impression was more flattering than some of the ‘celebrity appearances’ in the episode. The episode also wrapped itself up neatly and I think is likely to work as a standalone (notwithstanding that knowledge of the characters might prove to be a boon when watching). 7 out of 10.

The imdb page is here.