Loveday Writing

When Nathan walks in, he is greeted by Mildred, Ingrid’s grandmother whose avatar is black and white as she is 100 years old. Back in the real world, Nora goes to Nathan’s funeral in a digital chapel where she meets three of Nathan’s former girlfriends. During the funeral random memories of his play, including a damaged memory, which shows paramedics attending to him. Nathan is able to interact with the attendees through a screen, where he speaks with Viv, who tells him that the family got his equity shares from the unfinished software deal.

Fran confronts Ingrid at the funeral, who tells her that she is investigating the car accident and asks her questions about it. Fran tells her that according to the hospital, Nathan’s vitals were going up before he was uploaded. Ingrid walks away to give a speech, however she stands in front of Nathan and praises Rupert Tilford’s life instead of his. Nathan then asks if anyone else wants to make a speech and while he asks, he spots Nora at the funeral in New York on the live feed. This upsets Ingrid and she asks him what was wrong with her speech and he confronts her about his feelings on the funeral. They argue about the costs of his afterlife and he suggests in anger that she deletes him and she actually threatens to do so. He reluctantly concedes the argument to prevent her from actually doing it.

Fran knocks on the screen to tell him that she is investigating the accident. She asks him if he has any enemies as she has a theory that his car was tampered with.

After the funeral, Nora goes home and calls Josh Pitzer about Nathan and Jamie’s software deal. She informs him Nathan is dead, he tells her he was angry at Nathan for refusing to sell his app but is sad he’s dead. Meanwhile Nathan tries to call Jamie but can’t get a hold of him.

Overall this was a solid episode however it wasn’t as strong as the previous two episodes. The funeral was dreadful, however with the way the afterlife works in the show, the concept of the funeral was reinvented in an interesting way. I also liked the exploration of Ingrid’s power as the account holder in this episode, especially when she threatened to delete him during an argument. In this episode she went from being a stereotypical shallow girlfriend to a villain. It will be interesting to see how else she uses her power over him.

Stray Observations:

-Aleesha is Luke’s angel.

-To go into the chapel, a person has to do a CAPTCHA test, the AI Guy tries multiple times and fails.

-According to Nora, when a person has random memories played at their funeral, there is a setting that shows ocean waves to cover up any nudity.

-Google Motors is the manufacturer of Nathan’s self-driving car.

-Fran is a middle school gym teacher and apparently excellent at puzzles.

-Apparently there is a popular TV show in the real world called “Botox Babies”.

-When Luke is having therapy with Ernie, his avatar appears to be licking himself but in the real world, Ernie is eating an ice-cream.

-Although Luke coming back from the funeral and showing off the multiple L’Oréal gift bags he took to Ernie was hilarious, I’m wondering how managed to get some in the first place considering there weren’t any at the Lakeview chapel and neither he nor Nathan could physically interact with the real world.