Well, how can you resist watching a series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana? Tina and I couldn't, and we were glad. At least so far as the debut episode, on Bravo last night.
Debra Newall (Britton) has been married four times. She has two daughters (Ronnie, played by Juno Temple, excellent in Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams) and Terra (played by Julia Garner, who was so good in Ozark) to show for it. That, and, against all odds, an apparently open, questing heart.
John Meehan (Banner) is some kind of anesthesiologist (maybe a doctor, maybe a nurse, maybe both? not clear). He's incredibly attentive and apparently caring of Debra. But there's something not quite right about him. After a first date in which he jumps in Debra's bed - he leaves when she asks him to get up and go into another, less intimate room with her - he and Debra strike up a relationship. But he shows up late to an important event, with she dressed to the nines, and he in scrubs. And neither daughter can stand him.
Nonetheless, she marries him. And that's where the first episode ends, leaving us certain that some kind of serious no good is going to come from this. And part of that is what Debra is up to. Is she in some sense leading John on, for some purpose as yet unrevealed to us? She seems too smart to be taken in by whatever his game is. And her siding with John against her daughters doesn't quite add up, either.
There's clearly something evil lurking behind this, and it will be fun to see from whom, and on whom it's inflicted.
In Autofac, we have Dick addressing his perennial what's real and what's fantasy, dream, alternate whatever conundrum in a form likely best known these days, and for better than three decades: which one is more human, the android (robot) or the humans who made it/her/him. This is the theme of Bladerunner, original movie and recent sequel, based on Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - two words of which are part of the title of this 2018 streaming series.
