Command Center

Portlandia (2018) Season 8, Episode 3
Portlandia
Command Center
Swamped by dating-app chats, Rachel Bloom lets Fred and Carrie run her love life from a high-tech command center, where the one guy asking her out in person doesn't stand a chance.
Dating Texting Smartphones online culture Technology Computer
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Cast

Quotes

We are patched in. All lines are open.
Do you have an online profile?

Synopsis

Rachel is juggling two phones and eight dating-app conversations, one carried on entirely in Family Guy references, so Fred and Carrie step in. They take her to a darkened command center where Trevor, a quiet technician, has wired her phone into a wall of monitors so the team can split up the suitors: Fred and Carrie divide the deep thinkers and the jokers between them, and Rachel is left with the men who lead with explicit photos. As the replies fly out like a spy-thriller operation, Trevor nervously asks Rachel out face to face, but she can't consider anyone without an online profile. The team finally locks in a dinner date at the Slide Inn, though nobody can tell whether it's with David or Peter, and Trevor's hopeful 'Is it me?' gets a flat no.

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