Netflix’s ‘Partner Track’ Gets Lost On Its Way Up the Corporate Rom-Com Ladder: Review
variety.comCaroline Framke Chief TV Critic The most frustrating turn in any romantic comedy is when the leading lady and/or man becomes a jerk.
It’s a crucial moment — necessary, even — but it’s always the hump you have to endure in order to get to the part where everyone learns their lesson, embraces their truth, and kisses their hot crush to the triumphant swell of an impossibly catchy pop song that will nonetheless fade from memory by the time the credits roll.
Without that annoying blip of tension, that payoff won’t be half as sweet — or, truth be told, half as earned. Such is the conundrum facing “Partner Track,” Netflix’s frothy new comedy based on Helen Wan’s novel about lawyers fighting tooth and nail to become partner, if only they could stop getting distracted by each other.
Ingrid (Arden Cho) is the firm’s determined golden girl, especially because she’s always willing to work overtime and do everything her mercurial boss (Matthew Rauch) tells her, no matter how morally questionable.
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