Mrs. Davis
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Would you two prefer to keep on wildly theorizing, or may I continue on with the story?
Davisco-creator Damon Lindelofs mind for a long time.
On the one hand, wild theorizing has kept him in business.
At any rate,Mrs.
Davisis a wildly theorizing kind of show.
But its also muchfunnierin how it does this thanLostwas.
On that show, the mysteries were serious business.
Davis, by contrast, the whole thing is one big metatextual tap dance atop the fourth wall.
Hey, he got there eventually, right?
As one-liners that sum up a whole project go, you could do a lot worse.
Okay, so secret societies and the Holy Grail still factor into his basic deal.
I kind of like this guy.
To paraphrase what a wise man once said under similar circumstances,she chose … poorly.
Take Mathilde, for instance.
She just did the whole thing on spec after talking to some kid working for college credit or whatever.
Its like something Rose Nylund would do if shed been entrusted with an artifact from theIndiana Jonesseries.
Schrodingers story makes a little more sense when you come right down to it.
Theres just one problem actually, no, there are several problems.
How does he know the mouse drank from the Grail?
How does he know thats why it died?
How does he know his cat at the mouse?
How would microtoxins, as he speculates the Grail contains, cause a human beings head to explode?
For that matter, why didnt the mouses head explode at all?
Is the whale even real?
The easiest answer I can come up with is Hes lying.
Why couldnt Lizzie and Wiley come up with that one too?
Theyre the stars of the story, not me!
All that being said, this is probably the most Ive enjoyed aMrs.
Chaplin excels as a father whos become affectionate despite himself.
Herbers makes Mathilde an insufferable piece of shit, which is exactly what she should be.
Whats up with that, I wonder?
You guessed it: Time to start wildly theorizing!
