Mrs. Davis
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Happy belated Mothers Day!
This (final?)
Davisis all about moms: coming to terms with them and them coming to terms with their offspring.
And, fittingly, the show gives the final word on its title character to her very own mother.
Those sneer quotes are important!
I dont know if I laughed, but I definitely snorted.
The wings everyones so desperate to earn from Mrs. Davis?
Coupons, my friend.
The quest to find and destroy the Holy Grail?
Buffalo Wild Wings Holy Grail, according to its training manual.
(Thats where Joy lives.)
Mrs. Davis isnt a she, Joy says, but an it.
Algorithms arent a form of life; theyre code.
They dont have subconsciouses; they have subroutines.
They dont have mothers; they have coders.
Its not just that the quest Mrs. Davis assigned to Simone is dumb; its thatallalgorithms are superdumb.
Theyre just moronic computer programs that plagiarize Wikipedia and make pictures of fake people with 17 fingers.
Algorithms are not inevitable, and they dont haveintelligence, not any more thanPongwas an Olympic table-tennis champion.
Speaking of Celeste, her fraught relationship with her daughter?
But as it does time and time again,Mrs.
And issues with world-building abound; by the time we reach the end, theyre impossible to ignore.
Davisseems to have decided it was too close to the closing credits to bother with all that.
Its cute, but cute cant get you very far.
Ill say this forMrs.
Davis, though: This show is timely as shit.
