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'Inside Job' showrunner thought a shadow government would be scary. Reality was scarier

In "Inside Job," certain celebrities and politicians are revealed to be members of a race of shape-shifting lizard people that secretly live alongside humans. These reptoids help fund the work of the shadow government, which in turn ensures that the Earth stays at their preferred climate.

That's just one of the routine conspiracies being handled by Cognito Inc., a "company" enacting the will of a shadowy cabal of ancient elites who control the world. Created by first-time showrunner Shion Takeuchi, Netflix's latest adult animated series shows that even those coordinating cover-ups and surveilling the masses can't escape workplace mishaps and drama.

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