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Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin, and Bill Burr battle for the top of the Glengarry Glen Ross leaderboard.
We’d be living in a better world right now if David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize–winning American nightmare, Glengarry Glen Ross, were strictly a period piece, acclaimed for so accurately capturing a climate of toxic masculinity and scam-or-get-scammed capitalism that was unique to its moment in 1984. Bad for humanity, great for Bill Burr, Kieran Culkin, and Bob Odenkirk, perfectly cast as jaded schemer Dave Moss, hotshot Ricky Roma, and past-his-prime Shelley “the Machine” Levene, respectively, who scrap and scramble to find their footing in the real-estate-sales industry. At Levene’s highest point, he comes into the office boasting of a big eight-unit sale he made, giving Roma a play-by-play of his technique, only for Williamson to burst his bubble: The Nyborgs aren’t good for it.
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