What did you just say about Vision Quest??? I'll find you.

I'm amazed no one has mentioned Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Nightmare on Elm Street. This thing is hitting perfect notes to evoke 80s films. No direct homages to those films but it just evokes the sense of them!

I agree with you about Jesse. What I think they've done is decided that the power of Genesis needed a more dramatic influence on Jesse as its host. Because it can go either way and doesn't have an understanding of human nature, it has these extreme reactions, driving Jesse's emotions to extremes and then drowning them…

Classic Richard Price. Without David Simon to temper some of his unfortunate instincts in black characterization, I expect that to be an ongoing issue.

We're agreed to pass on a Nass convo.

Um, obviously.
But why are you mentioning the phonetic "Nass" when no one was talking about "Nass" phonetically or otherwise. Of course no one ever called him "Nass".

What's "Nass"?

Jared. We get it you act.

In their defense, it was pretty clear by the second episode that this wasn't going to be a faithful adaptation.
A friend who hadn't read the series and was asking me some questions about what would happen next. I had to explain to her that at this point all I knew was the general plot - that Jesse has this being in…

Well, there we go, then.

An admittedly pedantic point: It's Nas, not Naz. Nas is short for Nasir (just like the rapper).
Unless he himself at some point spells it that way, which I may have missed.

They're definitely playing with us on who is possessed. I still feel it's the daughter and here's why: I went back and watched the scene where Kyle went to their house.
The reaction to Kyle's touch appears to need skin-to-skin contact. During the entire interaction with his daughter, he never made skin-to-skin…

One more idea I want to throw out: the longer these things are in their hosts, the more traumatic their removal to the host, which would explain why the teen and Kyle's mom are now catatonic. I can't be certain of the timelines for the hosts we've seen undergo excising but those two seem to be the longest.

So, let' presume these beings are just other-dimensional. Clearly aware of and covetous of our dimension.

ehhhh, maybe at the general level of, something foreign is inhabiting humans with an eye to some mass event.
They don't appear to coordinate in any way and they aren't taking over individuals with any discernible pattern or strategy.

My theory on why Kyle didn't tell Allison is two-fold: first, he's insanely focused on keeping her and Amber safe (good news, bad news) - he has no real idea yet what is going on but he knows he's mixed up in it and possibly at the center of it in some way. Now that he is reassured that Allison is not 'possessed',…

This why I wish they'd get on the fucking road already. But given the relocation of just about every character to this town, I wonder if that will even happen this season.
Also not sure about Tulip/Cassidy stuff and Quincannon revisions.

Unfortunately, considering the channel it's on, I'm guessing the number of comments is spot-on. My hope is, because it's on HBO's side piece channel, it will get a longer life. The production costs can't be super high at this point.

I saw it as more anti-slavery and anti-imperialist than anti-bourgeois. The Om aren't part of Draag society in any meaningful way beyond being companion pets and seen to a large part of Draag society as a pest akin to insects or worse a threat to be exterminated in the wild. It wasn't that the Om were poor Draags.…

A fellow Night Flighter! I saw so much weird stuff, including this on Night Flight. Loved that series. I think I read on AVClub that maybe the old episodes would be available online soon? But perhaps at some streaming charge, which ugh.