“The episode’s final image is of Kevin buying a $2 John Candelaria baseball card as a reminder not to lose his sense of fun and freedom(...)“

This season has just been filled with high stakes that go nowhere.

The concern about fertility rates is the greatest misunderstanding in the comments for this show (and the book). So there’s fewer and fewer babies being born in the world for the first time in the history of mankind? That’s not a danger of extinction! That’s a fucking BLESSING FROM GOD (except for those religious…

That’s one of the most ludicrous parts of the premise. The drastic fall in birth rate doesn’t mean humankind is dying (except in the propaganda of religious extremists, of course). It’d actually be a relief, because it’d mean for the planet to recalibrate toward a sustainable population, so we wouldn’t go extinct due…

oooooooh boy. Ok. Here goes.

Nick was not very careful with these letters. It’ll take about 5 minutes to figure out how they got to Canada.

Also, fuck Serena. I know the past couple of episodes try to paint her as a victim, but she’s not. She helped to bring this nightmarish world into existence. Only once she got beaten by Waterford, she is shown…

I feel like this is a show that I watch because it’s an important artistic and political statement, and it should be watched, but not one I necessarily watch as ‘entertainment’. It sure isn’t a feel-good time, and probably one I won’t revisit. It’s haunting and it’s brilliant, but fun it is not.

“But, man, “handsome movie star becomes addicted to painkillers while hiding an injury” feels like a plot from a Lifetime movie.” If you sum up any plotline from the show or even the show itself, it sounds like it’s from a Lifetime movie. It’s the actors and the writing that make it work despite the usually cheesy…

Also: he talks about Fredrick Fucking Douglass the way you would talk about the teenaged manager at the Quik-E-Mart. “Oh yea, Jonathan is doing an amazing job. Really great. Always makes sure the Slurpee machine gets refilled. Really excellent.”