Netflix’s Running Point Gave the Main Character an Assistant. He Got a Hoodie. She Got Chaos. We Had Thoughts.
Netflix gave her an assistant. He got a hoodie. She got chaos. I couldn’t not write about this.
In Episode 3 of the new show Running Point, Isla (Kate Hudson) hires her long-lost half-brother as her assistant—and things go downhill fast.
It's hilarious.
As the founder of a virtual assistant company askChenai, I to weigh in.
What does the show get right about executive support? What’s completely off the mark? And what should executives working with assistants actually take away from this?
I broke it down—TV vs. reality—in this new article. 👇🏾
Check it out if you want a laugh, and repost and comment if this resonates.
From The Simpsons to BoJack to Mad Men: TV’s Best Assistants and What We Can Learn from Them
Hot take: Judah Mannowdog from Bojack Horseman is the best assistant in TV history.
But Judah isn’t the only great assistant in film and TV. From Donna Paulsen (Suits) to Miss Moneypenny (James Bond), great assistants make everything easier—turning chaos into order, ideas into action, and stress into someone else’s problem (theirs, specifically).