![]() ![]() Thankfully, you don't have to understand data compression to follow the three-season saga of Pied Piper, which has slowly become TV's best case study on the conflict between art (in this case, the developers trying to make the best product they can) and commerce (the corporations and financiers trying to cash in on their innovations). No industry is more ripe for satire than tech, and no creator is better suited to the task than Mike Judge. ![]() Love triangles, heartbreaks, and old flames keep the storyline moving, as Casual begins to further differentiate itself from its largely hetero competitors with some of TV's subtlest portrayals of sexual fluidity. The latest batch of episodes finds Valerie, Laura, and Alex-three very different loners-struggling to make and keep friends as they continue courting romance. But the show reached new heights in Season Two. ![]() And, of course, the siblings' reunion reveals that the ghosts of their childhood still haunt their current relationships. The idle, commitment-phobic creator of a dating site, he's gotten rich off of other people's search for love. Michaela Watkins' Valerie Meyers, newly separated from her cheating husband, and her taciturn teenage daughter Laura (Tara Lynne Barr) end up staying with Valerie's younger brother Alex (Tommy Dewey). In a first season that improved with each episode, Zander Lehmann's Jason Reitman-backed Casual distinguished itself from TV's recent glut of LA-set romantic comedies ( You're the Worst, Love, Togetherness) by focusing on family. ![]()
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