The dashing Wesley first appears in a halo of golden light that seems precision-engineered to annoy evangelical grampas.
Retro soul is some of the most profitable material currently being exported, and the 25-year-old seems precision-engineered, having emerged suddenly in just-so trousers, with a voice that echoes Sam Cooke's.
His slickly produced debut album seems precision-tooled for crossover success – the next single "No One" brazenly echoes Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" – but somehow it doesn't feel cynical.
Garner's scenes with Lewis, whom she played opposite in the underrated "Catch and Release," are where the series finds most of its laughs, as Jandice seems precision-engineered to drive Kathryn up the wall.
In actual fact, Outoo seems precision-engineered for the kind of people who take part in The Colour Run UK and have a mate who nearly did Tough Mudder once but tore a hamstring at a swing dancing night in Clapham the week before.
Specifics are handled with seeming military precision by Dorothy Coyle, the city's tourism chief, and Andres Torres, 22, the project manager who is a Yale graduate and a multilingual (English, German, Spanish) son of North Side immigrants.
So a lengthy battle over voting rules and voting rights seems almost precision-designed to help the Obama-era Democratic majority endure once President Obama has left the Oval Office.
As a hip artifact, Théo seems to be precision engineered.
Too soon this precision seems precious and fussy.
But for ordinary tasks like writing, sending e-mail and visiting the Web, clearly such precision seems about as necessary as a four-wheel-drive sport utility vehicle is for trips to the drugstore.
Precision seems important ("1959"; "a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters"), but the novelist's certainty does not preclude a tactful hesitancy about her characters ("The uncertainty probably kept her awake").
