Zed A. Shaw, Painter

On just a basic mystery story plot design DEVS is pathetic. You know the mystery already, when they could have started it after his death. The motive for the killing is dumb. Nobody would risk it all to kill the dude when they can just take his watch and have him arrested.

Oh come on. So the protagonist is an elite crypto coder who can’t crack the crypto on a phone and has to go to her ex boyfriend to do it? Of course that guy is an angry nerd “nice guy” so he says no. A scene entirely designed to cast both characters in a bad light.

Now the evil nerd CEO has a CCTV video of Sergey setting himself on fire...which would leave DNA evidence but sure...everyone just trusts the grainy night video from 500m away.

I will say, if a bunch of engineers were to design a murder cover up plot this is exactly the kind of over complicated bullshit they would do. It’s like the Java AbstractFactoryFactory of murders.

So far DEVS seems to taking “Nerd are Robots” approach to nerd bashing. That’s a good strategy because the market is already saturated with “Nerds Are Weird Dorks” tropes from Big Bang Theory and Silicon Valley. Let’s see how long for someone to really smile and laugh.

Dammit girl it’s an ancient iPhone! Root that shit and use the quantum gold computer to crack the app’s data. It’s probably an encrypted SQLite3 database with a password he has to memorize so probably a piece of cake for THE COMPUTER OF GOOOOOOLD.

Ok the only normal person in the show is the ex boyfriend. He plays video games, has emotions, and is even rocking a beard! You know how rare it is for hollywood to give an Asian man a beard?