If a dummy moves towards you a pole and you shot it, that’s not murder. That’s what an FPS game is doing, in a really cool and advanced way. Hosts are fundamentally different unless you accept the premise that sensory input and stimuli are all we really are.

I do find it telling that the episodes we all universally love in season 2 (particularly the Native American one) are the ones that completely ignored the broader narrative of the season. I would now have absolutely have no issue if we got a season that was literally just one-off stories set in different Delos parks…

Season 3 didn’t even memorable sequences like the absolutely sensational scenes in season 2 about the James Delos host mentally collpasing over decades (though see James in season 3 was both completely unnecessary and kind of lovely).

This season just fell flat. Most everyone here in the comments enjoyed the production, I mean there is nothing like HBO production dollars. But it swung for themes far better fleshed with the Matrix series or any number of cerebral dystopian films reaching back to the 70s

Woman on Twitter who is a Trump supporter called out David Simon for his “thinly veiled” Anti Trump/Republican series and making it seem like what happens in mini series is happening now to some extent. She’s not even bright enough to realize that it’s exactly what he’s doing.

I was struck by your comment about Mrs. Lindbergh. Maybe I’m misreading her scenes, but I see her as complicit with her husband; her role, however, is to be the velvet glove around the mailed fist. She is just polite and friendly enough to assuage Bengelsdorf (and by extension, any supporter with a hint of concern…

Talk about uncomfortable. Given current circumstances hearing the “loyalist” radio news report completely misrepresent the facts to serve the administration’s purposes is a gut punch. Like, I feel like we are thiiiiiiiiis close to this reality and I don’t have a lot of confidence that we won’t get there.

But even while Herman is standing with a crowd or resistors in Paterson, he’s still hoping that somebody else—Walter Winchell, in this case—will be fighting his battles for him.

I’m watching it 🖐🏼. This has actually been my favorite ongoing tv show, though that’s only out of 3 shows I watch weekly. (the others being DEVS and Westworld) There’s just a certain nervous tension in the show that draws me in.

Last week I asked for a Walter Winchell or a Joseph Welch to call out Bengelsdorf for his dangerous blind loyalty. I was not expecting Winchell ....... to run for President. This story is kind of off the rails but it is certainly a cautionary tale of fascism we all need right now.

It would be totally in keeping with this show’s character for it to turn out the past that is torturing Caleb is actually a fabrication fed into the hardware in his head to conceal his true identity from him. While I thought Delores meeting Caleb was a random event, it may be that she chose him because of what she…

They should have had Cassel be the Brazilian president, both in this show and in real life.

“Ride of the Valkyries” a song that has been a cinematic classic since Apocalypse Now is always welcome. Add an instrumental Bowie with “Space Oddity”, and Fischerspoon “Emerge”, and the thematic music was on point with an episode named “Genre”.

For me, it’s a perfect indictment of human behavior. Currently, we have all of the scientists telling us that climate change is going to destroy our way of life, and yet we’re going to do it anyway. We created nuclear weapons that can destroy us all - that were designed to destroy us all - and are kind of hoping that…

Just looked it up: the main sample in the opening song was from Steven Reich’s “Come Out”. It uses a clip of the voice of Daniel Hamm, one of the Harlem Six, describing the horrific lengths he had to go to get medical attention in prison for the wounds he sustained being beaten by police.

I just have to say that I loved everything about the cave painting scene: Offerman & Pill curled-up watching it by fire light. The dog. The “we’re the same” and “how could life not change?”

The reading of “Aubade” was very stirring and drew some very interesting thematic parallels with this episode. I loved it.

Katie didn’t just observe Lyndon as he stupidly climbed over the guard rail and lifted his hands. SHE was the one who put it in his head to do it in the first place. So she actively participated in Lyndon’s death. She made it happen.

I didn’t think the (many) deaths were the most shocking thing this episode delivers:

They hired Sergei because they hired Sergei. It’s all very Dr. Manhattan-y: knowing what is gonna happen doesn’t mean you can prevent it from happening, as the event has already happened.