‘Mrs. Davis’: Betty Gilpin On The Final Episode & The “Expertly And Ridiculously Crafted” Origins Of The All-Powerful AI
18.05.2023 - 13:27
/ deadline.com
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the finale of Peacock’s Mrs. Davis.
Peacock wrapped up Mrs. Davis on Thursday, finally giving audiences some answers about the origins of the all-powerful AI.
As it turns out, Mrs. Davis wasn’t crafted by some nefarious engineers who plotted to take over the world. In fact, she (it?) was actually developed as an app for Buffalo Wild Wings. No, seriously.
The final episode opens with a character we’ve yet to meet — who we soon learn is Joy, the coder who created Mrs. Davis, and the person that Simone (Betty Gilpin) has truly been looking for this whole time. Remember the very strange rendition of Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” that Simone was confronted with after she washed up on shore in Episode 7? Yeah, that was leading her to Joy, who is now one of the few people left on Earth refusing to engage with her own creation.
But in 2013, Joy is just an eager young coder sitting in the Buffalo Wild Wings corporate offices, pitching executives an app that can “service us without harming us” by constantly evolving to get to know its users better and prioritize community care and mutual aid. It’s a moving speech and all, but this is just a restaurant chain, after all.
The company tried to pass, but Joy was determined to “shoehorn philanthropy into this app for chicken wings,” so she redeveloped the app to suit those needs. That definitely explains a few things. Like those expiration dates that can fast track people’s wings? Yeah, those are just coupons. And the Holy Grail? That’s actually the company’s policy of 100% customer satisfaction. As Simone puts it, “This is so dumb.”
“I loved it,” Gilpin told Deadline of the revelation. “It knocks Simone on her ass in terms of