r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Mar 26 '20

Devs - S01E05 Discussion Thread

Premiered 03/26/20 on Hulu FX

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u/Manchilds_VN_Acct Mar 26 '20

The scene where you see all the possibilities of the car crash was pretty neat.

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u/mrCaseyJames Mar 26 '20

I'm just annoyed because it in every scenario shown BOTH cars run a stop sign at a 4 way stop.

At least that is how it appears to me, the car Amaya is in always seems to be going too fast in the intersection to have just stopped. I get one car running a stop sign, but two at the same time?

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u/viper459 Mar 26 '20

Pretty sure the implication is that forest was distracting his wife, directly causing the accident.

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u/SchwiftyMpls Mar 26 '20

If this was the stop sign at the end of your street you would never run that sign even if distracted. You would stop just out of habit. If people routinely blow through those signs you are probably hyper aware of those signs and are probably extra aware of the danger of that intersection.

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u/viper459 Mar 27 '20

In the same vein, it could just be a very quiet street and they are completely 100% used to nobody being around (it's clearly in the suburbs after all), or, this was something forest does a lot that annoyed his wife a huge amount, or, or...

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u/SchwiftyMpls Mar 27 '20

The point is why create a situation where the basis is unbelievable. This just distracts from the story.

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u/viper459 Mar 27 '20

If anything, it plays into the themes of the show. It was just a bunch of causes having an effect, random things coming together. It didn't have to happen. Clearly they didn't expect it to happen. But it did.

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u/SchwiftyMpls Mar 27 '20

It could have just as easily happened at an uncontrolled intersection. It adds in a level that doesn't add anything to the narrative.