Superstore is the only show that gets what it's like to be working class in America

Slate

"This good-hearted workplace comedy about a big-box store in St. Louis is the only contemporary sitcom about American workers that threads class consciousness—the persistent low-level conflict between management and staff, the human impact of low pay and bad health insurance, the befuddling effect of managerial tactics that thwart workers’ solidarity—through every episode, without being too didactic about it," says Rebecca Onion. "More than once, while watching an episode, I’ve had to pinch myself, shocked that we have a network show that talks about inequality so openly. Superstore’s radicalism, it seems, has been hiding in plain sight. A lot of Superstore’s comedy has that familiar Kurt Vonnegut feel—a wry, ironic tone familiar to watchers of other workplace comedies, including The Office, where creator Justin Spitzer was a writer and producer. An organization led by fools makes irrational, penny-pinching decisions, and workers suffer the fallout with whatever humor they can muster." ALSO: How Superstore created a legion of super fans.