Spoilers below for certain elements of Peacock’s new sci-fi-action-adventure-comedy Mrs. Davis, so be warned if you haven’t watched at least the first episode.
While series such as Yellowjackets and The Mandalorian keeping TV viewers busy with theories and speculation in past weeks, the new multi-genre streaming series Mrs. Davis arrived seemingly out of nowhere and laid out one of the small screen’s most complex, intriguing and impossible-to-predict narratives in years. (And I, for one, adore it.) Its humanistic approach to genre storytelling alone makes it comparable to such former TV monoliths as Lost, so it’s perhaps no surprise that both shows share a co-creator in Damon Lindelof, who helped Big Bang Theory writer/producer Tara Hernandez bring her idea for Mrs. Davis’ “A.I. run amok” storyline to life. And as viewers no doubt picked up on in the early episodes, the new streaming show features some on-the-nose nods to the flashback-filled hit.
