Only two episodes in, and I’m loving Mrs. Davis, the mind-bending comedy/drama on Peacock about a world effectively ruled by an AI.
What comes up in the second episode—on the heels of the almost eye-rolling revelation that the AI wants Simone, the main character, to locate the Holy Grail—is the notion of quests.
(Another character asks Simone, disparagingly, “Did [the AI] give you a quest?”)
There’s a background quest, not central to the plot (I think), that we see in the episode: an old man searching for his dead wife’s piano. It’s not the Holy Grail, but it’s still a quest!
It got me thinking: what quests do I have? As observed in the episode, the Holy Grail is a classic MacGuffin. The quest for the Grail is more of an excuse to go on an adventure.
Are there equivalent quests (even with MacGuffins) in my own life? If there aren’t, what would they be?
Taylor Coe 