Teddy
2021 · 3m
Directed by Christina Woo
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
With a new degree and certificate from anger management, Teddy's first day on the job goes from bad to worse.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The anger management certificate as a punchline is almost too on-the-nose, but Woo's commitment to the absurd spiral—watching institutional "solutions" collide with actual chaos—feels genuinely subversive under its three-minute surface.
A compact coming-of-age comedy that understands its debt to workplace farce tradition while maintaining formal restraint; the editing rhythm between Teddy's interior collapse and external professional expectations shows considered control.
What sells this is the specificity of Teddy's performance in those moments between composure and fracture—Woo catches the micro-expression that makes the whole premise work, turning a high-concept gag into something that actually lands because we believe the character's fragility.