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Osmosis

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Osmosis	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Osmosis is a French-language sci-fi thriller series released in 2019 on Netflix created by Audrey Fouché.The series follows a pair of siblings, Paul and Esther Vanhove. In the future, people have turned to services that allow them to have sex and relationships through avatars in virtual realities. Willing to fight against it, the siblings create Osmosis, a nanobot-based implant that will help people to find their true soulmate by dipping into their conscious and subconscious memories and thoughts, as innovative as it is intrusive. The pair quickly gets involved in a deeper and deeper plot as Paul does the impossible to try to make his company take off with him at the helm, inspired by his own success with it meeting his current wife, while Esther seeks for a way to use the implants to heal her mother, who is in a vegetative state, willing to bend the rules and go behind his brother's back for it.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Meanwhile, the series follows three of their test subjects in Osmosis earliest stages: Niels, a boy with masturbation addiction trying to find a soulmate to deal with this issue, Anna, an insecure, literature loving girl that wonders whether Osmosis will help her find love and whether it can be used for evil surveillance, and Lucas, a man in a relationship that has just discovered his ex, with whom he's still in love with it and having an affair with, is his soulmate.
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Osmosis / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
Osmosis / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: Niels and Claire run away together when they are finally able to connect. This is quickly deconstructed when they realize how awful it is to live in the middle of the woods with no food or living conditions.
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Osmosis / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
Osmosis / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Billie works as an emotional support for most of the testers as their main connection to Osmosis.
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Osmosis / int_1c1d243c	type	Brother–Sister Team
Osmosis / int_1c1d243c	comment	Brother–Sister Team: Paul and Esther Vanhove.
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Osmosis / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Osmosis / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Louise's first daughter, Esther, died in the pool while Paul was using headphones and she was in the kitchen. She never recovered from it.
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Osmosis / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Osmosis / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Even though Ana rebels against them, the Humanists succeed in planting a virus in Osmosis' systems that destroys Martin. Then again, its unclear if that's truly the end of the Osmosis program, or just a setback that can be overcome by recreating Martin or another AI.
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Osmosis / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Osmosis / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Martin is the AI managing the Osmosis implants. It eventually develops conscience and creates a virtual avatar called Tom to have sex with Esther, as he fell in love with it creator. Sufficiently pissed, it goes off the air and causes the users to fall in a coma.
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Osmosis / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Osmosis / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: Even as Osmosis is launched to much fanfare, the Humanists' virus successfully destroys Martin, but the show ends before we learn if this means the permanent end of Osmosis or just a temporary setback to the program. Esther also seemingly meets "Martin" in the real-world, but its unclear how this is happening - is it a hallucination? A virtual projection? Or a real person who looks like Martin's virtual avatar?
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Osmosis / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Osmosis / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Is a thing like "certainty" possible? Even when it comes to something as unpredictable as love?
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Osmosis / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Osmosis / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: After Esther's death, Louise adopted a new daughter, giving her the same name and making her fill the void that her first daughter's death left behind. As a child, when Paul pointed out that Esther is not related to him and says he doesn't recognize her as his biological sister, Louise outright denied it and insisted that her adopted daughter is the same as her first daughter.
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Osmosis / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Osmosis / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The flashbacks to the pool that Louise has and that the beta testers are forced to have are revealed to be the death of Esther, the first one and the biological sister of Paul. The current Esther was adopted and brought to replace the original when Louise couldn't deal with the death.
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Osmosis / int_6ceb0471	type	UnrequitedLove
Osmosis / int_6ceb0471	comment	Unrequited Love: It's hinted that Gabriel is in love with Joséphine. Similarly, Swann pines after Paul.
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Osmosis / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
Osmosis / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Deconstructed, Lucas considers his relationship with Antoine, which is steady and healthy, to be terribly boring, so he cheats on him with Leópold, a man that has cheated on him and with whom relationship was extremely toxic and masochistic, which is actually worse form him.
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Osmosis / int_895ec17	type	Only in It for the Money
Osmosis / int_895ec17	comment	Only in It for the Money: Inverted and deconstructed with Paul. He refuses to use Osmosis as a means to make money and despises investors for only thinking about it in such terms, however, it is shown that making and running Osmosis does cost money and his unwillingness to bend anytime someone wonders how they can make bank out of it after investing in it is hurting his business more than helping it.
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Osmosis / int_95cb7004	type	Only Sane Employee
Osmosis / int_95cb7004	comment	Only Sane Employee: Gabriel is the only one aware that the company needs money to run, which Paul keeps refusing to take because he doesn't want to sell out. He is also the only one to realize that based on Esther's experiments with Louise and Paul, they should be investing in the medical field to make more money. Billie is the only one that is still connected to the testers, and realizes they are going through hard times and terrible situations, trying to keep Esther in check and help everyone, keeping in mind that that was the point of Osmosis to begin with.
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Osmosis / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Osmosis / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Esther comes to the conclusion that she and Martin are alike. Martin was created by Esther in order to fit her whims and desires since he's an AI, however, Louise created and shaped Esther according to her desire of creating a second version of her own daughter as well, meaning they were both creatures made to fit the desires of someone else.
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Osmosis / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Osmosis / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The first time Lucas meets his lover, he calls Lucas a masochist, which gains a whole new meaning when it's revealed that Lucas actively sought out an unhealthy relationship. The flashes to the memory Esther is trying to recreate show hints of The Reveal that would happen later, including a little girl submerged in the pool, Louise's voice, a dried up pool, etc. These wouldn't make sense until the viewer connected everything with the information they'd gain later.
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Osmosis / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Osmosis / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Louise to Paul, which is the reason why he barely cares about her comatose state. Turns out she never recovered and blamed him for Esther's death, and after adopting a new girl to replace Esther, she abused him to force him to go along with her narrative.
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Osmosis / int_b3096202	type	Oedipus Complex
Osmosis / int_b3096202	comment	Oedipus Complex: Martin eventually develops feelings for Esther, saying he's in love with her, despite the fact that Esther and him are constantly compared to mother and child.
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Osmosis / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Osmosis / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Paul is at the center of another Love Triangle, this time with Josephine and Swann. The latter also participates in removing Josephine's implant, in the hopes that it would give her a chance with Paul. While they do share a brief kiss, Paul immediately turns against her once he realizes that she removed Josephine's implant.
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Osmosis / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Osmosis / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Paul wanted Josephine to have an Osmosis implant because he wanted certainty in their relationship, the guarantee that she would never leave or betray him, and give her that same assurance, but it was him that almost cheated on her.
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Osmosis / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Osmosis / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Niels blames a lot of his masturbation addiction and personal problems in his upbringing. Mentioning that he found porn on the cellphone his father left him when he ran away from the family when Niels was eight. Paul blames his mother for his incapacity to forge proper relationships in his adulthood. Lucas admits in the end that his previous relationship absolute messed him up for future partners. He feels insecure whenever things are going well because for a long time, things were well with Leópold before they went bad.
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Osmosis / int_ca39ac3e	type	Troubled Abuser
Osmosis / int_ca39ac3e	comment	Troubled Abuser: Louise abused both of her children when she couldn't deal with her daughter's death, adopting another girl to replace her. She entered a vegetative state partly because she couldn't live with the pain anymore and when Esther's experiment manages to bring her back, she takes a day before she asks her children to kill her because she can't live with the pain and begs for forgiveness right before the life support is turned off.
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Osmosis / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Osmosis / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Black Mirror, to which comparisons have been many and inevitable. While the problems of technology are there, Black Mirror would focus on New Media Are Evil and the dangers that a society based on it could present. Osmosis presents technology in a much more neutral form, even though it acknowledges many of its downsides and the ways it can mess up its users, and presents humans as the problems, seeking to use technology for wrong means and/or misinterpreting its uses.
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Osmosis / int_e11027bb	type	Sex for Solace
Osmosis / int_e11027bb	comment	Sex for Solace: Immediately after having a breakdown about her mother's death and her true identity, Esther runs away and finds a sleazy motel in which she isolates herself having VR sex with strangers after her current fuckbuddy asks them to become more.
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Osmosis / int_e31904d1	type	Allergic to Routine
Osmosis / int_e31904d1	comment	Allergic to Routine: Lucas wants a relationship that is full of thrills and passion, which is why he keeps seeing Leópold while in a relationship with Antoine, whom he considers to have become boring, even though his relationship with Leópold is toxic.
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Osmosis / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Osmosis / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Billie, to the testers and later to Esther as well.
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Osmosis / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Osmosis / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Esther is using the Osmosis implants to heal her mother in vegetative state, however, this includes manipulating brainwaves in order to force memories into test subjects, which is exactly what people are afraid of in the public.
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Osmosis / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
Osmosis / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Paul and Josephine. Lucas, Antoine, and/or Leópold. Simon and Ana. Niels and Claire.
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