T.I.M.

Last night I watched T.I.M. (2023), written by Spencer Brown and Sarah Govett. Brown also directed it. It was kind of fun!

T.I.M., the Technologically Integrated Manservant, is an AI-powered robot who takes over running the household of a young couple. As you can guess, things do not go entirely smoothly.

Early on, the couple is watching a classic movie together and invite T.I.M. to watch with them. They don't say it, but I recognized the movie as Brief Encounter (1945). They don't show very much. I'm sure I recognized it because I saw it recently. I bet most people don't recognize it and it's not relevant to the plot. You'd think they would stick in a reference like The Invisible Boy (1957), which features both an artificially intelligent robot and a boy named Tim.

It took me a minute to figure out why I found the jerky boss guy so immediately annoying. It was Nathaniel Parker, who played Skimpole in the excellent 2005 adaptation of Bleak House. Skimpole is such an annoying character and Parker was so effective playing him that it has transferred in my mind all these years later.

At one point, the husband puts his hand in the garbage disposal and it's the most uncomfortable scene I can remember in a long time.