Disney’s TRON 2.0 | 2015 | Limited Series

When a wayward young script named Quorra offers Jet Bradley and his best friend Sam Flynn a once-in-a-lifetime chance to enter the Digital World, they begin living a double life that radically alters their perception of reality.

Season 1: 10 Episodes

S1E1 “The Legend of Sam Flynn” | 81m | The graffiti tag “1982 Forever” begins to appear all over Valley High. Sam is accused of the vandalism. To clear his name he enlists the help of a delinquent artist named Beth Wilder.

S1E2 “The Perfect Score” | 42m | When he gets dragged into an elaborate cheating scheme by Sam’s new friend Beth, Jet decides to take matters into his own hands.

S1E3 “Separate Ways”  | 52m | Going through his mother’s old things, Jet discovers an old journal and photo-album that chronicles the last six years of his mother’s tenure at ENCOM and the reason for her departure.

S1E4 “Blast From The Past”  | 81m | Lora returns from Washington and reunites with Flynn. Flynn suspects someone found his old server. Quorra’s message leads Sam and Jet to Walter Gibbs’s old home.

S1E5 “Grey Thief”  | 81m | When Sam is famed for hacking Valley High’s mainframe, Jet joins forces with Beth Wilder to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Jet is getting messages from a secret admirer.

S1E6 “White Throne, v1”  | 81m | Kevin and Lora’s investigation leads them to Eva and Annie, employees of FCon Industries and Elfwood Studios. Alan catches Sam and Jet breaking into ENCOM. Chaos ensues.

S1E7 “Teller's Gambit”  | 46m | Are Quorra’s programmer and Jet’s secret admirer the same person? A suspicious Sam tries to figure out Teller’s intentions before Jet and their secret is exposed.

S1E8 “Thorne In My Side”  | 45m | J.D Thorne sends [his programs] Tek and Odorus after Quorra before she can escape the old server. Sam is trapped on the Game Grid by the ICP after Jet goes missing with Teller. Alan gets an S.O.S page from Jet.

S1E9 “White Throne, v2”  | 45m | Young Intern and Star programmer, Eva Popoff begins tracking unusual activity in the FCon server and happens across Thorne's plans to sell company data on the black market.

S1E10 “Sweetness, Are You Listening?”  | 81m | It turns out Sam was worried about the wrong blonde. Jet comes to terms with his feelings for Beth. Eva and Annie are offered a job at ENCOM. Quorra finally meets the legendary Tron.

Teaser: TRON 2.0  | 1m

And I'm not saying that to pat myself on the back (srsly) or say it's comparable to the show's writing (I am not), but, as a show that is explicitly portraying Louis/Lestat as manipulative, doomed, and abusive, there are things in Subroutine about Jet/Eva that pop up in L/L's dynamic that I always thought I depicting as too overwrought or too on the nose.

And given that she was a pretty flat "Evil French Person" in Tron 2.0 (IIRC), I wanted her meanness to have dimension, and so I tried by making her Jet's love interest with actions similarly motivated by parental spite or parental-born insecurities. Does that make sense?

Each time I've re-read this story to make sure my plotting is still on point, the banality of the harm in J/E's dynamic is hitting me differently at 34 than it did at 22 as someone uncertain about how she's portraying an abusive relationship.