Love at Madison and Wall is set at a fictional TV network – OpportuniTV –
and centers on the relationship between a boyfriend and girlfriend.
The boyfriend is a VP at the network, and is in charge of the
network’s new division for:
-- launching online markets that provide people with new and improved ways to develop, showcase and profit from expertise
-- creating complementary media
Attending ‘pitch meetings’ is a big part of the VP’s job.
Given the VP’s gender, show creators have their prospective lead actress perform (part of) their pitch.
Of course, the better the impression an actress makes on the VP, the more likely it is that he will green-light her show.
Ambitious actresses are eager consumers of innovations that enhance
physical attractiveness. Because the actresses who pitch the VP work
with smart marketing professionals (i.e., the show creators), these
actresses also utilize innovations from the burgeoning sciences of
persuasion (e.g., the psychology of enhancing desirability).
A good pitch meeting leads to more interaction between the actress
and the VP, as the proposed show is more thoroughly considered.
Routinely, then, the VP is subjected to a steady diet of state-of-the-science temptations to cheat on his girlfriend.
This suggests that he should err on the side of caution when it
comes to interacting with the actresses. But the VP does not exercise
this caution. His reasoning:
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The less he interacts with the actresses, the more likely he is to make casting mistakes.
These mistakes will compromise his efforts to give rise to the most popular markets of the aforesaid kinds.
Thereby compromising his efforts to make the global economy more inclusive and meritocratic.
Thereby compromising his efforts to make the world a more humane –
and safer – place for his children (who are not yet conceived).
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So the VP always interacts with an actress until he has reached his
‘temptation threshold’ (i.e., his limit for being exposed to
temptations without succumbing).
Of course, identifying this threshold is an exceedingly tricky business.
So the VP spends a lot of time working to assess his temptation
threshold (in cooperation with his girlfriend and relevant
specialists), and to increase it.
In the pilot episode, the VP and his girlfriend decide to work together. (She is a popular actress who wants to be a producer.)
Thereafter, she is routinely set upon by actors.
Of course, the more favorable the impression an actor makes on her…
And she wants the same world for her not-yet-conceived children as
the VP, so she does not want to err on the side of caution when
interacting with actors…
So she also spends a lot of time working to assess and increase her
temptation threshold (in cooperation with her boyfriend and relevant
specialists).
All told, the couple’s romance can only thrive to the extent that they work together to expose it to ever-greater threats!?
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