Superstore: Jonah From

We laugh at Jonah because he is exhausting. We root for Jonah because he is us—or at least, the version of us that hasn’t given up yet. In the harsh glow of the big-box store, Jonah Simms turned out to be the best thing on the shelf.

In the fluorescent purgatory of Cloud 9, where the Muzak is endless and the customers are feral, one man walked in wearing a tie that cost more than a month’s worth of shift drinks. His name is Jonah Simms, and for six seasons, he posed a single, uncomfortable question to the world of sitcoms: What if the privileged, pretentious, painfully earnest white guy was actually right? jonah from superstore

Jonah from Superstore is the ultimate millennial archetype: the overeducated, underemployed, anxious mess who talks too much about systemic change but actually shows up to do the work. He is the guy who gets made fun of for caring too much, in a world that has become addicted to cynicism. We laugh at Jonah because he is exhausting