The world is a little bit easier to take when there’s a topical drama by Robert and Michelle King on our televisions. From thorny legal battles (The Good Wife, The Good Fight) to religious conundrums (Evil), the Kings have tackled some of the more complex issues in modern life with humor, pathos, and realism. Gratefully, they’re back to help us parse the current tsunami of tech threats from pervasive AI to infringed privacy with Cupertino.
"Michael & Olivia" opens with Silicon Valley lawyers Michael Price (Mike Colter) and Olivia Siffre (Rachel Keller) separately getting unceremoniously canned by their tech start-up employer, S-Talk. Michael is an equity co-founder, while Olivia is a junior lawyer one year out of law school, but getting career-dumped is today’s great equalizer. As they awkwardly commiserate on the curb and share some genuine admiration for one another’s work, Olivia throws him an information bone because he’s always been nice to her. While working with owner Richard Everett (Will Brill), she heard him asking someone how to fire an equity partner for cause while keeping their money… meaning Michael was unlawfully pushed out.
From that little moment of allegiance blooms the duo who are the beating heart of Cupertino. Colter’s been a ride-or-die actor for the Kings going back to The Good Wife, and here he brings smarts, charisma, and simmering sex appeal to Michael Price. Though this character wears tailored suits and comes from a prestigious family of lawyers, Michael is a believer in the Davids battling these tech Goliaths, which keeps him grounded and empathetic.
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