Nothing has a lot of lofty goals. The tech startup founded by Carl Pei wants to make tech fun. To that end, it’s (at times painstakingly) developed a standout design language that incorporates elements like transparency and “technological warmth.” The Ear 1 and Ear 2 wireless earbuds were supposed to be — at least design-wise — a foil to the iconic but tired look of AirPods, and the Phone 1 and Phone 2, naturally, an alternative to the now rinse-and-repeat silhouette of an iPhone.

These are big, bold goals, to be sure, but Nothing also wants to do another thing that I think is less overtly stylish or iconoclastic: It wants to sell phones. And to do that, it has to play the game.

Enter the Phone 2a. It’s not a flagship phone with top-of-the-line specs, but even with a mid-range chipset, the Phone 2a’s eye-catching and literally flashy design, and shockingly well-optimized software tear down the notion of a mid-range or budget phone. As a whole experience, the Phone 2a is a rarity in this price range ($349) that’s more than the sum of its parts.

Throughout Invincible’s second season, teenage superhero Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) has felt trapped between two worlds.

In the wake of Omni-Man’s (J.K. Simmons) absence, he’s become the de facto leader of the “Guardians of the Globe,” the last resort to save the Earth from its various threats. He’s also just started college, building a reputation as an absentee freshman with bad study habits.

Understandably, his dual identities and existential burdens become hard to reconcile: Will he shake his father’s reputation, or take on the Viltrumites’ genocidal campaign? Will he make time for school and his girlfriend Amber, or is his job too demanding and all-encompassing? Will he be able to protect and console his mother, or bring more danger to her doorstep?