'Does Someone Have to Go?' review: A pain

But issues remain, and they're all in tone and premise. Of the latter, it's fairly self-evident that a troubled company that becomes the subject of a Fox reality show hasn't exactly made a wise or good-faith effort to resolve its problems. The real problem with this place, in other words, lies with management. The bosses are idiots. Fire one of them. The show also purposely creates a hostile workplace -- and this one was, by its own admission, hostile to begin with -- to get the co-workers in an ugly enough mood to want to fire one of their own.

Each then circles his or her own wagons; they get snappish, defensive, petty. You get the same kind of ceaseless nattering in "Survivor," but at least you have palm trees and blue water to soften the edges. Here, the bitterness plays out in drab cubicles under cold fluorescent lights. It's just painful.

Will someone get canned? The pleading nature of the title suggests that if one of the malefactors mends his or her ways, they can stay at this company -- though who knows why they'd want to.

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