'Mrs. Davis' is a case of “too much” being a good thing—until it isn’t. Our full review by nschager for beastobsessed:
. The show is a million different things at once, which is initially exhilarating. Alas, that heady buzz doesn’t last, dissipated by a story where each fantasticality winds up being a little bit less fantastic than the last.is a challenge by design, since Lindelof and Hernandez have constructed their eight-episode Peacock affair as a kitchen-sink sci-fi smorgasbord that self-consciously revels in clichés.
Not everyone is on board with this god-like algorithm’s status quo, however. That includes Simone , a nun working at a remote Reno, Nevada, convent that specializes in making strawberry jam. Simone isn’t really Simone—she’s Elizabeth, the daughter of a pair of bickering magicians —and tracing the line between her prior and current selves is a winding process that eventually factors into’ equation.
As it turns out, this is just the tip of the series’ inscrutable iceberg. There’s also a shipwrecked hermit named Arthur Schrödinger —his name a shout-out to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, with the famous cat—who learns about Mrs. Davis after being rescued from his remote-island exile.
The story hinges on a deal that Simone strikes with the algorithm, agreeing to find and destroy the Grail in return for the A.I. shutting itself off for good. That mission is unbelievably intricate, chockablock with divine love triangles, German kidnappers, secret societies, complex heists, Old Testament-esque endeavors, Vatican doppelgängers, sacrificial suicide centers, pricey sneaker commercials, Arthurian-like challenges, and a final bombshell about Mrs.
For a long while, Lindelof and Hernandez keep things humming along in simultaneously intriguing and outrageous fashion, and even better, their tale proves thematically rich. It’s a drama about the tension between religion and technology, as well as about mothers and daughters. It’s a satire of social media status and validation, and of the way in which our devices—and streaming content—manipulate, control, and entertain with truisms and formulas.
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