Over two or three days last week, we watched the entire first season of one of the few sitcoms left on television, Better Off Ted.

Part of why it works, I think, is because it doesn’t try to ground itself in reality. It is a satire of the corporate world and does not pretend to be anything other than satire.

Oddly enough, the least realistic part of it is not the thought that a corporation would try to quick-freeze one of its scientists for a year just to see what would happen. It was that Ted, the head of R&D for this corporation, is not a blood-sucking leech of a man.

He’s actually rather decent, though he does have his rather corporate moments.

It would be a little difficult to develop a show people would want to watch if the main character were thoroughly unlikable.

We have Portia de Rossi’s Veronica for that, and she is perfect in the role. Cold as ice, soulless and brilliant at her job.

The episode where she uses Ted’s daughter, Rose, to help fire people, was pitch-perfect. The moment where Veronica realizes that people are hesitant to get really mad or really upset if a child is in the room was laugh-out-loud funny.

And it’s been picked up for a second season, due in large part to fan support. Glad everyone else watched it when it was actually on and didn’t wait until after the season was over to watch the first episode.

The faux commercials for Ted & Veronica’ firm, Veridian Dynamics, are hilariously dark, and the back-and-forth Frick-and-Frack-ness of the two scientists, Phil and Lem. Some of their projects have included beef grown in a test tube and pumpkins that double as weapons of mass destruction.