Horrorstör

2.75?? 2.5? 3 feels way too generous but 2 feels too harsh.

This was a really fun concept and there was a lot that I was ready to like, but it mostly felt like wasted potential. I loved the product guides at each chapter and the little clues/jokes/nods in those moments, but otherwise it just fell flat. There's a whole commentary on capitalism here that just.... Never materializes, despite Orsk/IKEA literally being a prison. In some moments it seemed to go in the opposite direction, framing it as “thank god IKEA is here because otherwise my life would be so sad”. Also couldn't help but notice how the Black and Asian characters are specifically called out as such, but no one else is. There's a way to demonstrate a characters race/ethnicity without resorting to stuff like “she just had to act like a Japanese school girl to make the guys like her”