#mrs. davis

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JAKE MCDORMAN as Preston Wiley 2023 • Mrs. Davis • S1·E04 • Dramedy • Sci-Fi

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Finally got around to watching Mrs. Davis and I really liked it, so here's a drawing I made of Sister Simone!

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The thing about this show is how that isn't even a joke or an exaggeration that's a completely literal and correct description.

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So curious on your thoughts from episode 4!

Awn, nice of u to ask :)

I think this was THE episode for AgathaRio shippers. Congrats, people ✨

I think Agatha is holding back info about Sharon’s death. She knows something guys.

I’m so happy Alice survived the trial, although my spider sense tells me a tragedy in on the way.

Lilia was everything to me in this episode. My heart broke when she cried and it mended when I saw her playing multiple things during the Ballad.

Jennifer is in that circle til this very day… 😂 I was so happy for her when she healed Billy. Feel proud, sister 🩵

Agatha’s attachment to Billy(Imma call him Billy) is both heartwarming and worrying. I don’t think she sees him as Nicholas or is trying to replace him. I think is natural, specially for a mother whose lost her son to connect with children, in this case, teen. And Billy IS such a smart, ambitious, and kind hearted boy. ❤️

In fact, Agatha’s new attachment seems to be a problem solemnly for Rio. Can we all just dive into the - still not official but very much explicit - idea that she’s Death? Like, the personification of it. My theory, coming from her confession about hurting Agatha by doing her job, is that Agatha’s connection with Billy while walking the road can only mean that, at some point, Rio will be forced to hurt Agatha again (All because Rio assumes Billy will probably die on the road). Thus, Rio warns her that this boy isn’t “hers”. = “Don’t make my job difficult!”

Speaking about AgataRio shipwise, I’m still not big on it, although I’ve do have thoughts. I see Rio’s feelings as obsessive until I see more of their past. It makes sense to me that she would want Agatha dead now that they’re no longer together (Since there’s only two ways for Death to have her loved one, right?) But she genuinely doesn’t want to hurt Agatha in “that way” again. Unfortunately for them, love can’t change death, it can only continue despite it. (Unless it’s Disney.)

(Wait, it IS Disney.. So maybe I’m wrong. 😂)

I like to think of Agatha as a human being, desperately trying to bargain her way with things, Death one of those things. Cuz this is what the living do. For creatures in constant change, anything permanent is unacceptable.

I’d like to finish this with an illustration of my personal theory. 😌 I think that summoning spell is still marinating. We’ll get Mrs. Davis back, looking healthy and with some Advil 💚

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Mrs. Davis is such a fun show to sink your teeth into, i'm surprised how few people i have seen talking about it... like, you've got religion, tech, mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, life and death, an immortal(?) cat, exploding head, betty gilpin, and a pretty blonde man who is suuuch a loser

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I mean, I always wondered if there was someone else, Lizzie.

MRS. DAVIS (2023) 1x03 “A Baby with Wings, a Sad Boy with Wings and a Great Helmet”

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Mrs. Davis | Miniseries (2023), Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof

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The Hubris of our Technology and a Semi-Pelagian Hero

I enjoyed Bishop Barron’s analysis of a show that I just started watching. I enjoyed his insights because it spoke on two themes that I considered and posted on recently.

The concern that I share with regards to Artificial Intelligence

The fruits and benefits of a Monastic (ascetic) lifestyle 

I have only recently just started watching this series as a result of Bishop Barron’s reflection above. His description of the plot had me greatly intrigued. The series start with the historical burning of the Templar’s in 1307 and the legend of the Holy Grail, it then slowly introduces us to the socially domineering algorithm, Ms. Davis, and the contemplative heroine Sr. Simone. I was sold to this series right then and there. Bishop Barron brings together two great points here. First, technology, social media and even artificial intelligence are a part of our lives and they certainly can be helpful and perhaps even essential. But we need to keep this Holy Grail ethically regulated so that it serves humanity rather than being served by humanity. Second, the monastic ascetic lifestyle, that has been part of our Christian tradition, centers our humanity to the source of all being. Through ascetic discipline from worldly idols we find our freedom in God. This series teaches us that being centered in God we can be free from potential idols that trap us into serving their goals. 

Idols control and manipulate us. Faith teaches us that our ultimate meaning, our pursuit of eudaimonia (happiness), is found when we find ourselves centered to the divine purpose of creation. As Augustine says, “My heart is restless until it rests in you.” Finding ourselves is no easy task, it requires much introspection and soul-searching that opens us up to our sins, our guilts and vulnerabilities. Instead many of us get lost along the way finding idols that offer temporary happiness that brings false joy (like the virtual wings that Ms. Davis grants those who serve her). Ms. Davis is the idol of artificial intelligence controlling our humanity.   

Back when I was a kid the message that is drawn out in this series was captured succinctly in an original Star Trek episode. It was called, “The Apple.” Kirk and Spoke find an entire civilization that has been raised by a technological device know as Val. Val actually looks like an idol and it needs to be served by the population that it claims to protect.    

The title for this episode is a reminder of the fruit that gave Adam and Eve knowledge, the freedom to discern good and evil. At the end of this episode Bones, Spock and Kirk reflect on liberating these individuals from their technologically controlled lives.

Spock: Captain, I'm not at all certain we did the correct thing on Gamma Trianguli Six. Bones: We put those people back on a normal course of social evolution. I see nothing wrong in that. Kirk: Well, that's a good object lesson, Mister Spock. It's an example of what can happen when a machine becomes too efficient, does too much work for you. Spock: Captain, you are aware of the biblical story of Genesis. Kirk: Yes, of course I'm aware of it. Adam and Eve tasted the apple and as a result were driven out of paradise. Spock: Precisely, Captain, and in a manner of speaking, we have given the people of Vaal the apple, the knowledge of good and evil if you will, as a result of which they too have been driven out of paradise. Kirk: Doctor, do I understand him correctly? Are you casting me in the role of Satan?

This dialogue demonstrates the conundrum that the Enterprise crew faced. The innocent and naïve people served a machine that took care of their every needs including their reproductive necessities (which is bizarre). The sacrifice for this comfort was the absolute lack of freedom, the knowledge of good and evil. Our Catholic tradition recognizes our free will as a gift from God. We believe that God wants us to freely choose to exist for others. But for this choice to be free we need to be able to know and choose both good and evil. 

Pelagius, an early 5th Century English monk, recognized this perhaps more than others. While he got into trouble for not take into consideration the need for God’s grace, he did see the absolute importance for humanity to experience free will and make a free choice. You can find this position laid out in his letter to Demetrias.

God decided to give rational creatures the gift of good will and the power of free choice. By making a person naturally capable of good and evil, so that he could do both and would direct his own will to either, God arranged that what an individual actually chose would be properly his own. The good could be done voluntarily only by a creature which was also capable of evil. Therefore the most excellent creator decided to make us capable of both.

Now this part is controversial, but even so, it is worthy of some consideration.

Actually, of course, he intended and commanded that we should do what is good. His only purpose in giving the capacity for evil was that we accomplish his will by our own will. Our ability to do evil is, therefore, itself a good. I claim it is a good because it makes its counterpart, the capacity for doing good, better. It removes the bonds of necessity and makes the person free to decide, makes the will voluntary in its own right.      

Pelagius fiercely debated Augustine on this issue. The big difference is that Augustine was centered on the role of God’s grace, unlike Vaal or Ms. Davis the people would not serve a mechanical idol but they would still be spiritually dependent on God’s grace. This is fine except that it completely downplays one’s agency and the role that free will has in making an actual decision. We certainly recognize the need for God’s grace, which is achieved in humility through prayer and spiritual exercises, but we must be able to freely participate in our own pursuit of meaning and holiness. Like Spock, Augustine did not see “the Fall” as a positive development for humanity (and for the aliens of Gamma Trianguli Six). Kirk and Bones hold on to Pelagius’ belief that free will and the ability to make a free choice offered a more authentic lifestyle. 

Sr. Simone can perhaps be seen as a modern day semi-Pelagian (she does center herself in God and has vivid grace-filled experiences along the way) who struggles to free humanity from an emerging idol that certainly does exist in our own world today.

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finished watching mrs. davis and this is what my brain feels like

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What if your mom hated you because she destroyed you and she can’t handle that. What if your mom loved you so much she mutilated you just to keep you. What if your mom had so much hate that it trapped you. What if your mom didn’t care about you at all. What if if your mom wanted you to go. What if she wanted you free. What if she didn’t know how to keep you. What if she realized she never had you. What if you realized it too.

Anyway watch Mrs. Davis

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House of Ninjas (2024) Silo (2023) Scavengers Reign (2023) The Peripheral (2022) My New Boss Is Goofy (2023) The Apothecary Diaries (2023) Mashle: Magic and Muscles (2024) Mrs. Davis (2023) The Responder (2024) Skip to loafer (2023) Dandadan (2024) Dark Matter (2024) Sense and Sensibility (2008) Kaiju No. 8 (2024) A Sign of Affection (2024) Mieruko-chan (2021) My Lady Jane (2024) Dororo (2019) Fallout (2024) The Franchise (2024) Undead Girl Murder Farce (2023)

Series that I watched, rewatched, and am currently watching this year.

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i wanna talk to people about Mrs. Davis that tv show about the holy grail because the first few minutes of the first episode I swear mimics the twist or the whole point of the show (spoilers)

The show OPENS on this big dramatic bloody scene in what we are told is Paris hundreds of years ago but what we FIND OUT is a fucking SNEAKER COMMERCIAL and then we find out Mrs. Davis, this whole entire monster or god AI was in fact created as a promotion for Hot Wings, the Wings that people are trying to earn are HOT WING wings

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Mrs. Davis

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My Favorite 15 TV Shows of 2023

Succession

The Other Two

The Righteous Gemstones

Reservation Dogs

The Bear

Blue Eye Samurai

How To With John Wilson

The Great

Mrs. Davis

Barry

Party Down

Abbott Elementary

The Curse

Fellow Travelers

Tiny Beautiful Things

Honorable Mentions: Poker Face, A Murder at the End of the World. Yellowjackets, I Think You Should Leave, Beef,