Between Showers

Mike Judge’s future won’t be blue

The LA Times has this interesting photo of Bevis & Butthead, Office Space, King of the Hill, Idiocracy and The Goode Family.

Another series created by Judge, with John Altschuler and David Krinsky, “The Goode Family,” about a family of left-wing vegans navigating life with their bleeding hearts on their sleeves, was canceled this year after its first season.

That may be because many of Judge’s projects have received a second lease on life, gaining popularity and appreciation with age, usually accompanied by the descriptor “underrated” when brought up in casual conversation. And no film better typifies this curious phenomenon than his “Office Space.” In the film, Peter, a miserable IT employee played by Ron Livingston, is hypnotized into not worrying about his job. His hypnotist dies suddenly before rousing Peter out of his relaxed state, and he returns to work, occasionally, with an anarchic attitude and an open disdain for white-collar cubicle culture.

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