The party is a mix of feral coders, ghostlike social media managers, and one very confused woman in a floor-length velvet dress (GUEST #1). They’re not talking to each other. They’re staring at their phones.
Across the mansion, we see the client: JARED (40s, soft-tech-bro, wearing a linen shirt with three buttons undone). He’s pacing in front of a whiteboard covered in arrows and the word “SYNERGY.” He’s on a video call.
A sprawling, minimalist Los Feliz mansion. It’s all white concrete, glass walls, and a single, jarringly large potted fiddle-leaf fig. The catering table is a live-edge slab of oak. Roman (MARTIN STARR) stands behind it, trying to arrange a tower of kale chips into a spiral. He looks pained.
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