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* SpannerInTheWorks: In the season 1 finale, Jack has one more con set up. He gets [[spoiler: all the customers onto the rocket, then fakes an emergency to get them on the elevator which he then stops. Thus, they'll figure a malfunction kept them from boarding the rocket which Jack launches, impressing watching investors to get more on board to build the moon town for real. Just before they launch, however, Jack and Joey get word Joey's mom awakened from her coma so rush off, leaving the launch button with Elle. Then, Lester comes by to find Myrtle and hears the people in the elevator complaining to open it up so they board the rocket. Thus, Jack has no idea the rocket is populated with folks who will expose the scam as soon as they land on the moon.]]
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** Jack's convincing Herb [[spoiler: the moon colony exists and he's a top sales guy pushes Herb to help the customers escape the elevator and get on the rocket with Jack unaware they're on when he launches it.]]
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* OhCrap: Jack's reaction when [[spoiler: he realizes Shirley used her money to buy an ad for the launches at a baseball game, thus increasing customers for launches that don't exist and threatening the entire scam.]]
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* WhamShot: The pilot ends with Jack returning to a small apartment to check on his mom and then entering a room to find [[spoiler: Buck, who is quite clearly not on the moon but believes he is. Jack then pets "Mr. Jenkins" who's a pet turtle whose aquarium houses the "moon rocks" Jack has been showing, revealing the entire company is a gigantic hoax.]]
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The salesmen find themselves being tracked by someone who has all the traits of a classic obstructive bureaucrat -- nit-picky, prissy, and rules-obsessed. However, the trope is being subverted; given the shadiness of the business in which they are engaged, anyone enforcing some basic business regulations on them is on the side of the angels.
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* ParentalAbandonment: Jack ran out on his wife so long ago that his now-teenage son doesn't remember him at all. Now, guilt over this makes him recruit the boy to his team and give him countless advantages in their work.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The setting looks like a technologically weird version of TheFifties, but the series features at least one mixed-raced couple who attract no comment -- unusual on America at the time. However, rather than gratuitous political correctness, this may be a hint about the setting's oddness.
* ParentalAbandonment: Jack ran out on his wife so long ago that his now-teenage son doesn't remember him at all. Now, guilt over this makes him recruit the boy to his team and give him countless advantages in their work.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The setting looks like a technologically weird version of TheFifties, but the series features at least one mixed-raced couple who attract no comment -- unusual on America at the time. However, rather than gratuitous political correctness, this may be a hint about the setting's oddness.
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* FlyingCar: The trailer shows off 50s model cars hovering on thin air instead of rolling on wheels.
* RetroUniverse: The setting, as shown off in the trailer is a world filled with futuristic technology like hovering cars, jet packs, space travel, and roombas… but it’s all with a distinctly 1950s aesthetic.
* TravelingSalesman: In the trailer, as Jack explains how they “aren’t just selling” but “changing lives”, there are shots of men holding up timeshare brochures to people opening their front doors.
* FlyingCar: The trailer shows off 50s model cars hovering on thin air instead of rolling on wheels.
* RetroUniverse: The setting, as shown off in the trailer is a world filled with futuristic technology like hovering cars, jet packs, space travel, and roombas… but it’s all with a distinctly 1950s aesthetic.
* TravelingSalesman: In the trailer, as Jack explains how they “aren’t just selling” but “changing lives”, there are shots of men holding up timeshare brochures to people opening their front doors.
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* CuteMachines: Many of the show's robots appear to be designed to be cute, to users or to viewers. Hiw often this tips over the edge into "disturbing" may be a matter of personal taste.
* FlyingCar: Thetrailer shows off 50s standard form of personal transport in the setting is what look like 1950s model cars cars, but hovering on thin air instead of rolling on wheels.
* RetroUniverse: Thesetting, as shown off in the trailer setting is a world filled with futuristic technology like hovering cars, jet packs, space travel, and roombas… roombas... but it’s all with a distinctly 1950s aesthetic.
* RobotDog: At least one robot pet is glimpse on a street scene.
* TinCanRobot: Most of the show's robots are built along the lines of an early SF illustration, and hence are archetypical tin can designs.
* TravelingSalesman:In the trailer, as Jack explains how likes to say that they “aren’t just selling” but are “changing lives”, there but the core cast are shots of men holding up acting as classic ('50s vintage) salespeople, going from door to door with timeshare brochures and pitching to groups of interest people opening in hotel meeting rooms. Though they seem to have a fixed base of operations, their front doors.employers can send them from town to town on whim.
* CuteMachines: Many of the show's robots appear to be designed to be cute, to users or to viewers. Hiw often this tips over the edge into "disturbing" may be a matter of personal taste.
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* RobotDog: At least one robot pet is glimpse on a street scene.
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Set in a Retro-Futuristic alternate version of America, the series follows a gang of traveling salespeople on a mission to sell timeshares located on the moon. However, their mission may not be as simple, or as idyllic, as it seems. The series will premiere premiered on Creator/AppleTVPlus on February 17, 2023.
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Gotta admit the previews do a good job of not showing exactly what the plot is about, but I think the "something shady" themes are definitely notable.323
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''Hello Tomorrow!'' is a 2023 sci-fi dramedy series created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen. It stars Creator/BillyCrudup, Creator/HankAzaria, Creator/HaneefahWood, and Creator/AlisonPill.
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''Hello Tomorrow!'' is a 2023 sci-fi dramedy series created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen. It stars Creator/BillyCrudup, Creator/HankAzaria, Creator/HaneefahWood, and Creator/AlisonPill.Creator/AlisonPill.
Set in a Retro-Futuristic alternate version of America, the series follows a gang of traveling salespeople on a mission to sell timeshares located on the moon. The series will premiere on Creator/AppleTVPlus on February 17, 2023.
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