Episode 2 of John Adams, Independence.

Siouxsie for the end credits was inspired as well.

Oddly I *did* know this once from my year long astrophysics course (where the median on one midterm was like a 45 and my TA got into NASA - for pure intellectual firepower, the physics/astrophysics people I ran into in academia are pretty close to the top of the list.) What I vaguely remember from the orbital dynamics…

The interesting real world part is that in 98-99 oil was at $10 per barrel and the industry reeling - but even then, it didn’t have anything resembling the impact on the economy that the show is extrapolating. There’s still significant petrochemical demand for hydrocarbons, and unless they’ve suddenly developed some…

Just finished, and I think these were perfectly good episodes, even if you’re right - they took a bit long to set up.

Yep, I was thinking that same thing when she was mentioning it was direct linked to NASA. “My, what a coincidence they’re using our exact designs...again.”

And it’s Nandrolone Decanoate otherwise known as Deca-Durabolin. Ding!

You’re right on the earth bound stuff being far less interesting; part of that is that I think the alternate politics work when they’re gauzy rather than focused. There’s a whole series of comments on Reddit by the youngsters about how much better the FAMU timeline is than ours; that leaves out Latin America being…

Or for that matter, not been using it from the beginning of the mission, since at the claimed rate of acceleration they’d have been there a month before anyone else.

“It’s that he’s not charismatic.”

No, in general I’d argue this has been better than S1 and S2; they’re going someplace every episode and the characters are more consistent.

Well, they are clearly launching in 1994 - viewers knew it from the 1995 title at the end of Season 2 - but we’ve got to wait until next episode to hear the characters realize it. Kinnaman seems to be hinting that there may be an S4 and he’s ‘preparing’, although if they do the standard 10 year gap he’s going to be…

Sorry, but any episode that expands the Danny-Karen Brazzers storyline (and takes it to a new level) by definition can’t be an A. Even before the cringe confession and stalking, I had problems with Danny and Karen in the same room, along with Ed and Karen in the same room getting along famously. With Karen, Ron Moore…

Sorry, but any episode that expands the Danny-Karen Brazzers storyline (and takes it to a new level) by definition can’t be an A. Even before the cringe confession and stalking, I had problems with Danny and Karen in the same room, along with Ed and Karen in the same room getting along famously. With Karen, Ron Moore…

There’s a New Yorker article in which Polley talks about the experience of having her own kids insist on being set as background extras so they could see her during COVID. She makes speeches for three days about, “If at any moment you feel the slightest bit uncomfortable, or even just bored, please let any of us know…

No, I think you’re basically right; it’s systemic, but there are multiple ways that it doesn’t have to be. From the kid’s perspective, it really doesn’t matter if it’s the parent, someone on the producer level who has the power to tell the director to back off, or a director who is more in tune with what children need…

Even though she finally got a bit of closure in realizing just how much danger she was in at the time confirmed by the special effects director many years later and realizes she’s been very right to be enraged at Gilliam for what he did, Polley is quite a bit more gracious to Gilliam than this article implies:

Can confirm second shingles shot plus swapping off Pfizer for a Moderna booster on the same day (different shoulders at least) was...not a good idea.

After Brazzers - which is about as mad at a TV show as I’ve been in a long, long time, particularly after the Anchors Aweigh reconciliation scene 4 or 5 episodes earlier - I think Ed and Karen are done done. One of the reasons I hated it so much was that it just destroyed any plausibility of how the three characters…

In the FAMU (I think that’s the nickname on Reddit) Reagan wins in ‘76 rather than starting in ‘80, so it’s not quite as much of a stretch that a Democrat wins that year given Reagan is term limited and nearly blows up the world.