The writers were in part inspired by the film Oldboy (2003), in which a man and woman have a mysterious connection; they were also inspired by a Superman comic book from the 80s in which Superman couldn’t come to earth without killing people.
More workshopping on this. When our hero meets the sewer people eventually he figures out some commonality in their personal data and his that’s crashing the system.
Turns out our hero all the sewer people had some kind of nicknames alias at some point, like Bill “Bulldog” Brown. When those got entered into the system, every once in a while an old Microsoft curly quote snuck into the nicknames. So when any system tries to access the person’s record, for something like a credit report, it crashes.
Eventually programmers fix the glitch, but for liability reasons, the govt recordkeepers refuse to admit there was ever a problem, which means most of the sewer people are still screwed as their credit and record long ago tanked. Hmmm maybe not. Still working on the ending.
I’m a bit interested to rewatch Presumed Innocent at some point. I saw it when I was too young to really understand, but Sean Fennessey on The Big Picture was piquing my interest in giving it another look with his praise for it on the podcast. To the extent that I remember it, I remember it positively.
Just finished off viewing #35 or something of Legends of the Fall. Love it, even if the Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins characters are infuriating. The last Colonel/Tristan/Alfred scene keeps its impact every time.
I’ve still never seen the movie, but I love the book. One of my former colleagues used to date Turow—apparently he’s a huge asshole. (Possibly not an unbiased opinion I guess.)
It is great if you have actually seen the movie. But it makes no sense if you haven’t. They make a lot of jokes/references that you won’t get if you’ve not seen it. But Paul Scheer & co are funny so yeah
