I do prefer that they maintained Christianity as the “cult”, I always think it’s silly in dystopias when a new belief system is created when you know people would just lean harder into puritan horribleness.

So the warning of “brief nudity” in the parental guide notes was the decapitated human dead hanging upside down in the shed. Who said irony was dead?

All due respect to spy couples on TV, we shall ne’er again see the likes of Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings.

Good grief, props to the set design. That was exceptional. No Orange Julius or Cinnabon kind of shattered the verisimilitude but hey we’ll let that go.

I mean, who doesn’t love yelling at assholes? You get plenty of opportunity if you work in retail.

They also have an album of new music already recorded. Just no release date; if they decide to release it.

At the same time, he didn’t seem at all bothered when the car burst into flames and he thought Davis was inside it.

In the game, it’s an ambush without question. (And the scene in fact, matters quite a bit to some important characteristics about Joel.) I can understand it being less clear on the show because they omit 1 line, arguably the most important thing from Joel that needed to be said: “He ain’t even hurt.”

Melanie Lynskey’s career literally started with her being an unknown cast in Heavenly Creatures because she conveyed this rare quality of being unassuming on the surface and being able to convey dark thoughts and energy underneath that 

Kathleen is an invention of the show. In the game, they’re just a bunch of generic evil guys.

It was unambiguously an ambush in the game.

I always think Lynskey’s power as an actor is in her ability to evoke a lot of darkness below what may seem an unassuming surface. she seems to make sense as a leader, someone with a foot in the old world of things and in the new.

Kathleen’s quest for vengeance kind of reminds me of when the Allies liberated Europe in WWII and the collaborators were rounded up for payback.

The same guy commented on one of my posts last week too I think! It’s really strange (but not unusual for the internet) how few people here actually want to write thoughtful responses and engage in a discussion. Who would have thought that my pseudo-joke about how I thought Frasier was boring when I was 8 years old or…

No worries, and yes Davis does, but I was more extrapolating that across life as a whole. I’m thinking in my profession, which is law, so much of success has to do less with how good you are and more with your ability to network and who you know. You can succeed without that, but you just have to work 10x as hard. If…

Hey thanks for writing an actual thoughtful response to my comment (unlike most of the others) and clarifying that the stuffiness is indeed intentional.

Absolutely. Frasier was a fucking blast to watch and the delight of it was the interplay between the characters, especially Frasier and Niles.

“But setting aside one slot for a person of color could make a lot of folks think they only got nominated for the color of their skin”

“This may be a strawman nobody is advocating for”

Funny that you mention him.Ted McGinley is currently on the AppleTV Harrison Ford show Shrinking.