Find my lover, Osmosis

    Osmosis, where true love is undoubtedly a thing and an application is able to find for you, true love and a perfect match! Sometimes however, love hurts. The setting of this Science-Fiction Drama takes place in the not-so-near future of Paris. With the swallow of a pill, Osmosis can dig deep into the users brain and formulate algorithms that allow for a perfect match with one hundred percent accuracy. The launch of Osmosis is intended to have positive global impact however, some things don't quite go as planned. The show examines a group of people who volunteer for the test of Osmosis and the affect it has on their personal lives and love lives.

    The show Osmosis begins with a women, Esther Vanhove walking around a room looking for her perfect manly match to absorb true love with. This scene demonstrates negotiated representation. As Esther (decoder) walks throughout the room, she passes by many different men (encoders) with a digital status above their heads that signifies how strong of a love match they would be for her. The reason this exemplifies negotiated representation is because she walks past several men who have the labeled status of a perfect match. Esther acknowledges the valid representations of all these men being perfect matches for her however, she chose not to fully accept a man right away. I believe that Esther saw that there may be a chance to find a more fitting opportunity with a perfectly matched man based on each man being labeled as a perfect match, so, she continued onward. From a competing discourse sense, it was indeed a competition. The men were in competition with one another in hopes that Esther would choose one of them and Esther was in competition with them. She wasn't going to let the fact that she could have any of those men convince her to choose right away, she embraced the challenge of the odds that seemed in her favor to find a more suitable match. None of the men in the first group satisfied her fancy enough to reel her in, quicker than a wink

    Esther wanted to feel a certain way, feeling all the feels and raw emotions that come with being human. Sure enough, Esther found a better match and created a more fitting situation for herself with the same valid negotiated representation. The reason there is no dominant view is because the men and Esther are both looking for the same thing, true love. This competing discourse lead to a negotiated representation in that the representations encoded by those with power were acknowledged as valid by decoders, but not entirely accepted. The decoder adapted the message for her local situation. This is also considered to be a discursive situation.