So actresses have "augmented" their beauty to the point of inexpressiveness, rendering them to look like emotionless robots, and Oprah has been replaced with a robot but nobody seems to notice. Isn't all of that true? Where's the speculative in this fiction?
The moment when I realized that actresses were actually resorting to a sign language system to express emotions due to their flaccid facial muscles, I got a chuckle, but that's all that this story had going for it. The characters were indistinguishable from one another, which I guess was the point but it made for some dull, dull listening. Like DKT I found it hard to believe that he'd never considered his own aging appearance when surrounded by the young and "beautiful".
I listened to the end to see where it was going, and apparently the answer was "nowhere". But I suppose it's hard to end a story arc that never really began.