winston billions autistic character validation!
1) rian refers to their not directly interacting as “parallel play”!
2) the writers let winston be obsessed with analyzing a movie that the showrunners consider as worth being obsessed with analyzing, but they make sure to have a more serious character, who has also been more earnestly & more often credited as smart & talented by other serious characters than winston has (despite that in his introduction taylor says he has “a genius level iq,” which may in turn be deliberately more indirect than stating “you may be a genius”, and thus potentially avoids acknowledging that winston as a person truly possesses genius by attributing it directly to him, & rather cites that claim of geniushood via a quantization / external source, while they would not themself necessarily support the conclusion), assert that winston is bad at analyzing / understanding the movie though!
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