S01.E03: Tech Guy

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Willis tries to level up. Lana tries to keep her job by kissing up to Green. 

Premiere Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024     Hulu     

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I'm actually really enjoying Det Green doing the Lenny Brisco zingers.

Fatty's rant hurt me just a little. I'm CBC and I actually do like orange chicken. And I love cold water. I developed a habit of always ordering ice water at Chinese restaurants, because they never provided it without asking. And then one time I visited Shanghai and I found the water dispenser in the airport offered your choice of either hot water or... warm water. Cause Chinese people mostly don't like cold water! But I've picked up some Canadian ways.

The way Willis gradually broke in to the records room felt almost like a video game. Or a contantly rewinding day/day-looping movie, where the protagonist fails, fixes their failure the next time around, and thus slowly advances towards their goal.

I also had been wondering about the money shortfall from how much food Willis was stealing, but Audrey's "charge the customers more for less food" was a pretty solid solution.

I couldn't quite make out all the old job ID cards Lana had in her desk. There was some "Kra Maga" one, a veterinary hospital one, and a cargo pilot one. The rules of this reality are nuts.

Aw man, Willis just totally took over for the old tech guy! And now tech guy can't get back in to the precinct! So "Tech Guy" got recast somehow??? Again, the rules are nuts.

[shapeshifter]

21 hours ago, arc said:

I'm actually really enjoying Det Green doing the Lenny Brisco zingers.

Yes!!!

 

21 hours ago, arc said:

I'm CBC and I actually do like orange chicken. And I love cold water. I developed a habit of always ordering ice water at Chinese restaurants, because they never provided it without asking. And then one time I visited Shanghai and I found the water dispenser in the airport offered your choice of either hot water or... warm water. Cause Chinese people mostly don't like cold water! But I've picked up some Canadian ways.

Conversely, I have no known Asian ancestry, but I prefer warm water and do not use ice cubes unless the air temperature is over 80ºF / 27ºC.
So I kind of liked the substance of Fatty's rant.
But I really f'loved the restaurant patrons thinking Freddy was so cool that they were going to get their friends to check out the restaurant.
But I did feel bad for Fatty feeling so much like a fish out of water.

This show has a little bit of a Mr. Robot feel to it, but not quite so dark, and definitely some humor. Definitely my thing.

 

21 hours ago, arc said:

I couldn't quite make out all the old job ID cards Lana had in her desk. There was some "Kra Maga" one, a veterinary hospital one, and a cargo pilot one.

I'm not sure, but I think when Chloe Bennet (Lana Lee) was in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., she might have piloted a cargo plane briefly.