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Never interacted with people before, have you, writers?

This is another double episode premiere, and while I glanced through the second, there's no way I'm dealing with covering it.

Impressions:

Honestly, I spent most of this episode trying to figure out when it was supposed to be taking place. It starts out by declaring that Amazon, Google, and Microsoft combined are worth a trillion dollars, which would put it around 2014. Then they flashback to At the same time, an off the shelf cheap laptop, with a mechanical keyboard at that, is good enough to hack into the local wireless security network that OBVIOUSLY a random parking lot would have, which raises its own questions about the level of technology. Also, everybody has modern smartphones. So, what? This is an alternate world of Amazin, Gooogle, and Mycrosoft where each are about a fifth the size? I'm starting to get the impression that this was not well thought out, and that neither technology nor finances are the forte of the people who wrote this. 

The same thing with the 'slick' dude. He goes to an interview, claims to speak every language, and when asked about it, instead spews out gibberish and says "That totally sounded like I was speaking actual French, right?" And everybody is impressed by his charm and acumen except for the stuck-up lady who they have a sexual harassment back and forth before he shows up the next day at her window to threaten her for revenge. Which actually shows how ambitious and inspiring he is, apparently. Just like the tech stuff, it comes off not as actually clever or cool, but what a completely ignorant person would think hacking or… uh… acing interviews would be like. But as an online person, and in the latter case, somebody who has interacted with other people at any point in my life, this is not how technology/human interaction works, so the whole thing makes zero sense.

And I'll say that I glanced at the next episode, where his grand plan was to get the lady to meet with him while she was exercising, and he somehow swapped out huge weights for styrofoam ones to impress her in her private gym while she was in it, which… again, this is first of all, not how anything works and would be painfully obvious for a hundred million reasons, but is also logistically impossible, AND the reaction once again is "and everybody clapped." The central conceits being asked to swallow would choke a blue whale.