Yeah, this was basically an entire movie-length examination of two men finding love at the end of the world. It took Bill meeting basically the last man on earth to find happiness. My only problem with it is that we saw a lot of development in Bill, and almost zero with Frank, who showed up fully formed and basically…

Yeah -- Hell, the headline itself totally gives away the first twist, even if you don’t read the article and only see the headline, with no intentions of going into it and spoiling it for yourself. Nice, right?

Yeah I fully agree it’s not a tragedy (other than taking place in an apocalypse).

Yes Bill *could* have kept living and it wouldn’t have cheapened things if he did. But if I was in his shoes I strongly suspect I would have made the same choice and died content and happy with it.

Their relationship in the game had a *very* different outcome. 

This was in the game. It was in one of Bill’s letters that you can collect.

I brought this up here with House of the Dragon and the discourse around, anyone who thinks gay characters dying = the “bury your gays” trope needs to read The Celluloid Closet or watch the equaling good documentary based on it.

While “bury your gays” exists as far back as works of 18th Century literature, it was coined…

So I take it these reviews are only for people who have played the games? Because several plot points were just laid out there, like Ellie’s sexuality, her schoolmate Riley who is a romantic partner... who definitely dies? Thanks for all those plot points. 

A very good episode. The only misstep was playing Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight, which has become an overused cliche to signal the waterworks in shows and movies. But very lovely and tender scenes with two fantastic actors. I was blown away by Offerman, showing Bill’s longing, trepidation, and vulnerability.…

“Arby’s didn’t have free lunch; it was a restaurant.” First legit LOL line of the season.

I think they meant it was someone just being a stupid drunk, not being a sober complainer of something insignificant.

Not enough is being said about the show’s increasing technical/production errors. Poor sound mixing, missed camera cues and sloppy directing. In last week’s episode, the camera cut back while the actors were still assembling at their marks. This used to be a rarity and now it’s become part of the show.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the original scheduled guest, but their guitarist is recovering from pneumonia, so Lizzo was brought in as a replacement musical guest.

Maybe there’s more to come, but what was the point of the flashback to Younger John Dutton/Younger Rip dealing with the pesticide situation like 20 years ago? I admit I very easily probably missed a present-day connection.

It was offensive, in the right way. The line ‘when it’s black it’s a gang, and when it’s italians, it’s the mob, and when it’s jews, it’s a coincidence’ is brilliant in it’s structure. That’s not saying you have to agree OR be offended. But he couches it in counterexamples that puts the critic in the position of…

I’m trying to figure out why Oklahoma has suddenly become such a thing of interest in television and film. I was born there; I lived there the first eighteen years of my life. It’s interesting, complicated, etc.

It was almost as if he was pretty sure he was never gonna make it that far. He obviously knew they were surrounded by water. He just happened to survive his suicide mission.

It’s amazing to me how the best adaptions of the games remain W. S. Anderson films simply because he at least had schlock that didn’t take itself seriously in the slightest.

Lucas has definitely had a great season. Sadie Sink I feel is the breakout star this time around. She was always great, but finally carried the load and blew it away. I feel bad for Noah Schnapp. He’s a really good actor, but he’s been sandbagged by a painful story. Let the character come out. Let him be happy. Robin…

Joyce, Will, Mike and Jonathan are probably the losers this season for me. At least we got the brothers showing their connection again. I had a big problem with Season 3, feeling like Jonathan and Will didn’t even feel like brothers anymore. I almost laughed at Will’s “you’re the heart” speech to Mike. In what world?…

I find it fun to think about what characters were the losers this season. Mike probably takes the grand crown there, since he’s gone from a series lead to being trapped in a nothing plot all season.