What matters is that Peter and the equally hapless viewer find themselves alerted to the nefarious intent of the institute by a mysterious entity known as the Elsewhere Society (led by a mysterious and as yet unseen Scotsman calling himself Commander 14, who may or may not sound uncannily like Grant doing a Scottish accent). The Jejune Institute picks up, invites him in and soon Octavio is explaining to our not-quite-hero that the institute’s true mission is – well, to be honest, like Peter I am not quite sure what it is. Peter, a data-collecting, office-working everyman, notices a strange series of flyers on his commute and eventually rings the number given. “Think of him,” says Octavio, because we are meta as well as idiosyncratic here, “as you.” He introduces us to this episode’s main protagonist, Peter (Jason Segel, who created, wrote, directed and executive-produced this – as you might imagine – highly idiosyncratic series). Grant is Octavio Coleman, Esq, the head of the Jejune Institute, purveyor of products called Nonchalance, Poliwater and The Idea (patent pending), all designed to fill the void in humanity’s heart and soul. Possibly too wild, but we will get to that because for the first episode at least it is a pure, refreshing joy. What follows can only be described as a wild ride.
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