Dingdong ~ God is sending you WeChat to add friends to apply...
You will...
Direct adoption;
B. Observe whether it is a micro-business under the identification of Ta's circle of friends;
C. Ignore it as a prank.
I believe that most people will choose B like me;
But what I want to talk about today is the male protagonist who chose C.
God adds my buddy
God friended me
Compared with many American dramas that have returned one after another, the new CBS drama can only sigh: it is really cool!
Douban currently has no score, and there are some brain watts of embarrassment, black comments (smiling face).
But after watching 3 episodes, touching my conscience,
Definitely a "relaxed + heart-warming" masterpiece, brushing before bed is the most healing.
Does God really exist?
After telling the story, let's have a good talk.
The male protagonist Miles (Brandon Michael Hall) is a radio anchor, a staunch atheist, who will also be blunt about guests when doing the show, and there is no God in this world.
One day, after finishing the show, he suddenly received a friend invitation from God on Facebook.
Someone else's prank?
He immediately refused.
But God went on to give him hints:
The clouds in the sky at this moment are my head.
Still refusing?
God immediately set off a fire symbolizing anger.
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Driven by curiosity, the male protagonist passed the friend request.
Then God began to recommend friends to him...
But the male protagonist has always believed that God's riotous operations are just a trick carefully arranged by someone, and what the purpose is is not known for the time being.
So while letting good friends who know hacking skills search for clues about God, he was forced to accept friend applications and unfolded a series of stories with these netizens.
It is also these two threads that connect the plot of the whole play.
The second friend God recommended to the male protagonist is the female protagonist Carla (played by Violet Bean), the chief writer of an online magazine in New York, who recently encountered a bottleneck and had no inspiration to write.
When the male protagonist investigates the truth of God's secret manipulation, he learns that the female protagonist has always had a knot in her heart:
The heroine's mother left her when she was seven years old, and came back from drinking halfway, but disappeared again.
To this end, the heroine has been growing up with her mother's dislike of her thoughts, and even underwent years of spiritual therapy.
In order to find her mother, the heroine applied to new York, the city where her mother lived.
More than a month ago, she also met her mother by chance, but she did not dare to come forward to recognize her.
It was also because of this incident that she was distracted and lost her writing inspiration.
The male protagonist used his mother as an example to wake her up:
"I've lost my mom forever, and you and she still have a chance to reconcile."
So the heroine came to the park where her mother often went, perhaps from the telepathy of blood thicker than water, and her mother recognized her at once.
After a long talk, she knew—
It turned out that her mother had secretly returned to see one of her athletics clubs in the eighth grade and witnessed her win the championship.
The mother was also afraid that her presence would once again disrupt her daughter's life.
Mother and son can finally accept each other.
The heroine after the heart knot also returned to the peak of writing.
Sounds like a story of God finding a spokesman on earth to redeem others?
He immediately received a third friend application recommended by God, The Waiter Katie.
When the male protagonist first saw her, she was being insulted by the duty manager because she was repeatedly late, and the male protagonist with a strong sense of justice stood up and asked the manager to apologize, but it hurt Katie to lose her job.
The man then found Katie's residence and wanted to apologize through a job offer.
Katie declined and said she had an interview in the afternoon.
Katie, who felt the sincerity of the male protagonist, asked the male protagonist to take care of his own son.
Katie's son has autism and needs someone to accompany him at all times and can't leave for a moment.
"He doesn't like to talk, he doesn't like physical contact, he doesn't like eye contact."
All the man can do is sit silently in the restaurant seat and watch him immerse himself in his own world.
Miraculously, the child suddenly left his seat, the male protagonist followed him to an underground music classroom, there was just a piano, the male protagonist taught the children a few notes, the children laughed for the first time in their lives, as if the long lonely night finally ushered in the first glimmer.
Katie, who rushed to deal with the matter, saw this scene and had mixed feelings.
I thought she would thank the man well, but she didn't expect to be angry that he didn't abide by the agreement and let the child leave the seat.
And in fact, the reason Katie was unhappy was —
He had been with his son for so many years, and his only smile was given to a stranger who had been meeting for less than 5 minutes.
The days and nights of the past decade are not worth the short 5 minutes.
It's a mother's heartache and jealousy.
Soon after, the child disappeared, the heroine, the male protagonist and the impatient Katie looked for him together, but found him on the stage not far from home.
He's talking about the piano,
Although he only understood a few notes, he used these notes to form a natural sound.
Her mother walked slowly to her side, and he smiled at her too.
The man told Katie —"
It was not the stranger who impressed the child, but the purest music.
Thinking about it carefully, these friends recommended by God have one thing in common: the heart has a weak rib.
The male protagonist who most rejects God has become a good doctor for others, helping them to prescribe psychological prescriptions one by one and helping them to heal one by one.
It seems that this God is full of goodwill and mercy.
Will the male protagonist waver?
Why did he not believe in God?
It turned out that when the male protagonist was eight years old, his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and he prayed to the heavens for a miracle, and as a result, his mother's illness was completely alleviated.
But on the way home from the hospital, God made a joke with him, and she was killed in a car accident.
Such a mischievous God, if the male protagonist also chooses to believe, it is too cruel to him to his mother.
So he firmly believes in atheism, and because of this, his relationship with his father has always been very tense.
The male protagonist's father is a priest (Joe Merton, whose works include "Scandal", "Justice League", etc.), who worked diligently in the church for 25 years and dedicated his life to God.
He has struggled to persuade his son to return to Christianity and stop promoting atheism on radio programs.
He thinks Miles' approach will lead people to a life without hope.
An atheist, an a believer in God, a game of science and faith. It is destined to be a father and son with many contradictions.
At the end of the play, whether he will believe in God like his father is still unknown...
It can be perceived that the belief of the male protagonist has begun to be greatly challenged...
In EP2, he finally received a paid advertisement, but the partners asked him not to mention anything about the idea of "God plus his friends" in the podcast, and even to publish an extremely radical theosophy.
He would have declined the offer.
He is no longer a rejection of accepting God's will.
You must know that God in American dramas has always been a very invisible and illusory existence.
But in this play, God has become a friend of the male protagonist, and has developed a close connection with the male protagonist along the network line.
This friend is still quite skinny,
As long as the male protagonist makes blasphemous remarks, he will tease him in various ways.
For example, when recording a podcast, the microphone suddenly explodes...
While sleeping, ghost animal music suddenly sounds...
When you are in a good mood, you will also like it and say something.
This God is probably a little cute, right?
But with so many people and so many things in the world, can this little cute man manage it?
God can remind us not to lose our last glimmer of hope at any given moment. But he was never a panacea, and he could never do it to get rid of the disease.
But don't forget, the only one who can really bring hope is yourself.
We ourselves are the key to unlocking the locks of the heart.
Learn to open your mind and see the world in a whole new way.
Learn to listen to your inner voice and take the first step toward change.
This works better than any God.