I wondered if it wasn't just chosen because of their penchant for playing around with the multiple meanings of titles. (Example: Lady Killer was about a playboy, a lady killer, who was suspected to have killed a lady in real life, but it was also about Root as a Lady who is actually a Killer, much to her…

And simply, as she said, she cannot be sure who's calling the shots. Like she said (paraphrase) "even if I am safe, you'll never be."
And per the Shaw we know, not being in control of herself has got to be terrifying. In both the scene last night, and the merry go round scene in the simulation, the way Shahi pitches…

Something I'm not sure it would do now, given the shows's definition of "open system."

Yes, I think we've seen that Samaritan didn't really "get" Root completely but it also knows she's not a soldier or trained operative. OTOH I wonder if it saw Root's game of chicken with the Machine?

But remember, its, or Decima's?, routinely killed themselves to avoid endangering the program, and they were rewarded for it. Shaw's sacrifice in the simulation doesn't just speak to her devotion to Root, it's what a highly disciplined operative would do if no other option existed.

This approach was 100% in character for this relationship.

"The miscalculation of human emotion and the different approach that both ASI take when assessing humans."

Also frees its acoloytes of the burden of accountability.

See also current news about New Zealand's Natural Resource Management Act amendment. Screwing around with island ecologies never ends well.

And she brought him jello!

His anger at her for attempting to give herself up to find Shaw was also obviously driven by concern. He seemed, relative to his usual stoicism, rattled.

Exactly, re the Root/Greer parallel. And I think Greer's "origin story" or as much as we get of it, is similar to her's, not in the particulars obviously, but in that we see younger Greer at the point where he broke with convention/society. What we don't see is what happened in the intervening decades, how he got…

What I saw on twitter was upset about Reese and his arc being pushed aside/ marginalised in favor of _fill in the blank_ new characters, storyline, etc. The consider him to be the star, as opposed to one character in an ensemble. I don't agree w/them but it's hard not to empathize.

Fusco doesn't even bat an eye. He's furious, he's had it with these people, he and Root are having a conversation and she's throwing her legs around everywhere—in his mind, anything she does just registers as "f*cking nutball Cocoa Puffs…"

Or if she's taken it yet?

And Samaritan's bullshit is devoid of the kind of expansiveness that's hardwired into The Machine. Whether or not she cares as much as Root thinks, the Machine has demonstrated a core understanding that humans are capable of caring and doing good and there is inherent value in the practice of beneficence toward…

I'll have to go back to Cold War and listen to Greer espousing his original worldview but I don't think it's obvious he believes humanity is worth saving as much as humanity is inevitable. I doubt we'll get too much more insight into Greer but I've always thought the tension between what his performative affect…

Reese never fares well in these spoofs. I recommend them all highly. The creator is a huge POI fan.

I assume Control will handle the Margaret Dumont roles?

An evil mastermind holding the audience in her sway.