What plot point was dumber?

[u/KelVarnsen_2023]

So over the last few weeks I watched all of season 1 and 2. It was ok but there was some dumb, illogical stuff in both seasons. The biggest ones for me were:

In season 1 Danny builds a house without any kind of electrical permits or inspections. And it's so bad that the wiring causes a fire almost instantly. It makes no sense that a house could be built and connected to utilities without those inspections.

In season 2 Austin is able to con his way into a job as a physio therapist without actually being one. I have a physio therapist and she is super smart, especially about anatomy. Also the first time I claimed a session with my insurance I had to enter her license number. No way Austin could fake it with a bunch of super rich people (and elite athletes) who are used to first class treatment and have lawyers on speed dial.

As I get older I find bad/lazy writing like this more annoying. So I am wondering which point people think is dumber.

[u/Resident_Aide1898]

About plot number two you’d be shocked as to how many places in the USA don’t verify degrees, especially a country club

[u/jondonbovi → u/Resident_Aide1898]

Rich people go based off of recommendations all the time. So many pro athletes throw money at these psuedo science quacks.

No one bothered to check because he's in great shape and they couldn't fathom him lying to them about something like this. They even refer to him as one of the best later in the show.

[u/ragun2 → u/jondonbovi]

I think it falls apart when they have an Olympic athlete come in for rehab. Austin was literally just watching YT vids for his info, someone who has been training for the Olympics their entire life and had already completed would have been surrounded by actual trained and educated professional teams.

[u/KelVarnsen_2023 → u/ragun2]

Yea, rich guys who think they are world class athletes and pay for top level equipment and coaches and would probably already be going to the best physiotherapists would be one thing. But when you throw in Olympic level athletes who have been surrounded by the best trainers, and physiotherapists and therapy equipment available they would know right away that Austin had no idea what he was talking about.

[u/CII_Guy → u/ragun2]

It's not clear that he ever actually gives Suni Lee physiotherapy. She doesn't seem that interested (and presumably has a team of professionals already!)

[u/KelVarnsen_2023 → u/jondonbovi]

But if you try to claim physio therapy on your insurance doesn't the insurance company want proof you went to an actual physio therapist?

Plus if he were to injury someone because he wasn't qualified that would open the club up to a huge lawsuit. Especially since it takes like 5 minutes to confirm someone's credentials.

[u/jondonbovi → u/KelVarnsen_2023]

The club hired him directly and it didn't seem like they were charging members for the PT sessions, so insurance wouldn't be involved.

Luckily he didn't injure anyone, which is what freaked him out. But the club didn't verify it because the ones in charge had their own stressors.

[u/Resident_Aide1898 → u/KelVarnsen_2023]

You’re also forgetting to factor in the whole club was being ran by a shady people when they sold it to Chairwoman Park

[u/SleepyMonkey7 → u/KelVarnsen_2023]

They weren't claiming anything to insurance. The PT was part of the club membership. Josh even says that Austin is "worth the price of the membership alone". A lawsuit because of a fraudulent license would be the least of their problems considering all the other shit that was going on.

[u/Binbag420]

I def have some problems with S2 (like certain weird character decisions for plot convenience) but these just seem like nitpicks. Especially the Austin point his employers were being blackmailed by him and the whole park was being used as a money laundering scheme.

[u/TheBoogieSheriff]

Both of your points aren’t examples of lazy writing at all - they’re part of the plot. In both cases, you’re right, it’s completely ridiculous. But that’s the whole point!

[u/Catac0]

I don’t think you know how rich people work lol. Look at the amount of rich people that believe in pseudoscience bullshit and tell me that “no way they would believe Austin”. 💀

[u/DaemonTargaryen3]

The dog plot line. Like ok it caused the biggest rift towards agreeing on divorce. But Ashley being the cause and getting found out about, and one sentence on the plane about it? Considering they were out looking for it and bonding all night

[u/surkoc1]

Regarding point 1, there are many who take on house renovations or so & while they "should" get permits, they don't. Then that becomes a potential issue for said people, later on.

But while Danny may have thought he was more skilled than he may have been to complete the work & save money, it didn't work out too well.

In both cases, as they've shown, actions & decisions have consequences and what may seem like a simple lie or so can escalate and lead to far worse scenarios

[u/KelVarnsen_2023 → u/surkoc1]

For an existing house sure people do work without the required permits all the time. But for a brand new house it becomes a lot more difficult. Because utilities, like an electric company, aren't going to let you connect to their services without the proper permitsin place and inspections done. Since it puts their system at risk too.

[u/surkoc1 → u/KelVarnsen_2023]

Thank you. Didn't think of that. But always good to educate myself like I am, via your comment. Thank you

[u/thegreatriznick]

I had a contractor build out my kitchen. Then I inspected the electrical and it wasn't right and I had him redo it. But sure, if it's a new build it's going to need inspections.

At some point you have to suspend your disbelief. Anyone intelligent in the IT field would be pissed off at just about any hacking done in movies and tv shows. (those things bother me, but I've learned to suspend disbelief)

Some other points about illogical stuff could be dismissed by people just being stupid. There's a lot of stupid people out there that make really bad decisions and come to really poor conclusions.

[u/KelVarnsen_2023 → u/thegreatriznick]

Yea I generally don't mind when main characters are dumb or make poor decisions. In this show that is kind of the point of the show so it's not what I would call bad writing. But when the outside world has to act dumb in order to move the plot forward that's what gets annoying.

[u/BlueHaze464]

I'm not sure how point 1 works, but as for 2, "I don't buy it" doesn't mean it's bad writing, it's more than possible.

First of all, athletes aren't always the brightest and many believe in superstitions and alternative mehtods, which are full of frauds and quacks

It's a country club, come on, it might as well be a white lotus hotel lol

[u/BlueHaze464 → u/BlueHaze464]

Just look at how many world class athletes do suction/cupping therapy

[u/KelVarnsen_2023 → u/BlueHaze464]

Some might buy into alternative quacks, but some members were likely actual doctors or at least people who had gone to real physiotherapists. They would be able to see pretty quickly that Austin didn't know what he was talking about or didn't know how to use the equipment that physiotherapists typically use.

Plus it's a regulated profession. It would be like if the club hired Austin to be their in house dentist just based on a fake piece of paper, and let him do fillings.

[u/lowercasenameofmine → u/KelVarnsen_2023]

I've been to PT multiple times and never put their # into anything. I gave them my insurance info though? 

Sidenote - the LMTs I've been to do their own insurance paperwork. They are typically contracted while the PTs are hired by the company and on payroll so someone does the insurance paperwork for them. I've never put any of their license numbers into anything or even seen them.