When lonely academic Claudia (Bunbury) meets the charming and confident bookworm Marc (Grace) the chemistry will remind you of all your favorite onscreen couples. Claudia, dictating into her the voice memos on her phone even says, “Just met my future husband,” after Marc saves her from getting hit by the bus. Marc is self-aware, interesting and interested. He seems to good to be true, and that’s because, of course, he is. Quickly, as we realize that Marc has relived this day several times and Claudia hasn’t, the episode uses the notion of a time loop to talk about the nature of privacy. Of course, when we get close to someone, we like to tell those people we love our most intimate details. But, even if you had a good feeling about something on the first date, you don’t want to rush things. Claudia’s “future husband” joke is for herself, and very quickly, it turns out to be the biggest jinx of all time. Marc isn’t boyfriend, husband, or long term partner material for anyone, because he’s utterly psychotic. Topher Grace does here what he did so well in the 2010 version of Predators; play the nice guy up until you realize that the nice guy is the worst possible person in the room. According to Marc, he’s lost the ability to really believe that Claudia is “alive” because he’s seen her die before, and he knows everything will just reset. Again, imagine some of the jokey cynicism in Russian Doll, and just channel that into a murderous mansplaining dude intent on getting someone to love him — or else.
But, Claudia isn’t a victim. She’s smart, and has one advantage over Marc: She’s not self-absorbed. When Marc decides that he’s going to try and kill Claudia — basically just for the hell of it — she fights back, catching Marc off guard, but not herself. This twist implies that perhaps Claudia has, also, been stuck in a time loop, and that she was simply biding her time to fight back against Marc. But, that twist gets a little dicey, because Claudia says she took Marc out “on the first try.” We know that Marc has encountered numerous Claudias before this, because we’ve seen the flashbacks, but Claudia retains no memory of those experiences. Or does she?
Earlier in the episode, Claudia leaves her cellphone in an ancient canone in the museum where the entire drama plays out. Presumably, the cellphone records everything. Did this recording carry-over form previous time loops? Marc seems to be able to program his watch with various alarms, reminding him when things occur throughout the day. Does he do that every morning, or do these pieces of information carry-over? The story doesn’t make this explicit, which is either what’s cool about it, or what leaves you longing for a little bit more. On the one hand, Claudia defeats Marc on her own terms, without also gaining the sci-fi superpower of being stuck in a time loop. On the other hand, it seems like she may have helped herself, Philip K. Dick or Star Trek style, but sending information into the next loop. Jordan Peele’s closing narration tells us that she will go forward into a series of tomorrows, but that Marc will not. And yet, we see one Claudia back in a similar loop. Is she aware of what has happened? When it comes to clarity on the rules of the time loop, this episode avoid the Russian Doll approach of actually showing you the parallel dimensions. It favors analogy over explanation, which is actually what makes it so smart, and literally, pack a punch.
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