Yeah, there's a perhaps-too-clever meta-textual thing there.

Zahra—I think this is the right reading for the intent, yeah. But I thought the humor was too broad.

"I don’t see how."

Why, did Carl Sagan write it two decades before?

Living in and around San Francisco, I definitely agreed with the article—the show's SF, while high on symbolism, also hits a sort of understanding of what SF means/is/can be? Dolores Park on a sunny afternoon is special and crowded. I don't get the same feeling from Sense8's Chicago, also a place where I've lived.

I think it's that the hospital is total bullshit and in on the conspiracy, whatever that might be.

Hmm, I like that.

I would imagine this costs a wee bit more, to be fair.

I like this. It reminds me of when I got dumped in a new city, living on my own in an apartment for the first time, working a 9-5 instead of whatever odd jobs were there for the first time. And I was shocked by how smooth it all was.

Rowan also is tardy, let's be fair. But only a couple hours.

I'm not too surprised. Todd was in the trenches for the post-Lost mystery show thing which, as I said initially, this show seems to resemble. He's also very strongly on board with the "idea episodes have to mean something!" that this show pushes back on.

See this is interesting to me because I see a lot of JMS in the San Francisco stuff. The performance piece in the premiere, with its focus on historical memory and guilt, seemed straight (ha) out of the JMS playbook with Churchill at Coventry, for example.

As I was saying on Twitter, I feel like this show suffered from the critics trying to judge it all in a fast binge of 3 episodes or so. People able to take it in at their own pace—faster or slower—are able to take it as it is more. I dunno.

These are all awesome compared to "I Am Also A We", "What's Going On", and "What Is Human?"

Oh I am quite aware of the ease—but even at my poorest Netflix was still as or more convenient.

I can't even imagine how people REALLY want to see this enough to pirate but not enough for Netflix? Or maybe they want to have the files. Very weird to me.

They're doing the thing where they want to name episodes after lines from the episodes and that's ALWAYS a terrible thing.

wee bit

You can go ahead and post with SPOILER warnings.

I can ask, but I suspect this show doesn't QUITE do Game of Thrones traffic.