He stood his ground when confronted with the serial killer; he was cowardly for abandoning Darby by just leaving. I guess I wasn’t clear.

And not to mention that Bill, realizing that he’s dying of a morphine overdose at the hands of Ray via Zoomer, grabs his copy of Darby’s book to locate the phrase “faulty programming” to circle so he can give her just a little hint of what happened to add some context after she’s figured it out, instead of writing,…

Interesting that you brought up Chekov’s gun, as I was thinking that AI has become that. As soon as it was revealed that Ray-bot was deeply integrated into the bunker, and not just a cute phone app, it seemed obvious that it was going to be the killer.

-The robot ants thing…they mention in this episode that Andy was leveraged to the gills for building his apocalypse bunker, but not for his city of robot ants that they never discuss again? What happens to this extremely useful concept once the creator slips out of public eye?

Title text: A laptop battery contains roughly the stored energy of a hand grenade, and if shorted it... hey! You can’t arrest me if I prove your rules inconsistent!

Didn’t anyone with half a brain figure this out at least three episodes ago?

Did they establish how he even got the thing or did the AI magic it into his little medical bag? By the time they were doing the exposition dump my mind checked out like Homer’s brain leaving.

Heh, he was still conscious looking at Darby in the window. Could have just said “That fucking kid did it!”

1) Why do single use morphine injectors come loaded with a fatal dose?

Looking back, it might have been easier for Bill to spell “Ray” with his blood than to find Darby’s book and open it to the relevant passage he wanted to circle.

This show straight up sucked. The “Gen Z Sherlock Holmes” was anything but. The love between Bill and Darby was devoid of almost any sparks (mostly due to Bill’s actor, but also due to the insipid writing), the message about bad A.I. was so on the nose that it made a hammer hitting a nail look subtle in comparison,…

Yeah as I watched this series, I got the distinct impression that I was seeing several ideas for movies or shows, that the creative team failed to develop on their own, and so they bolted them together and called it done. And to make it worse, each idea was so blatantly derivative of other, better ideas. Darby and…

“Under-baked” is a good word for it. Much like The OA, the final product felt like an early brainstorm. I’m constantly imagining a writers room full of people shouting, “Wouldn’t it be cool if....” They toss things together so carelessly.

Been thinking its And Then There Were None if written/interpreted by Neal Stephenson. There are good elements here, but a lot of it is clunky and underdeveloped. 

Yeah same.  Honestly, this whole thing feels like  the creative team were inspired by watching a TED talk, and then built from there by ripping off everything from “And Then There Were None” to “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”  

Really enjoyed the first episode but it’s kind of gone downhill for me since then.

“Bad programming” e.g. Ray, perhaps? Not sure how that tracks but... Deus Ex Machina, much? Probably unrelated but didn’t Darby first meet Bill in person at a place called “Rays”? I noticed it while watching but then forgot about…

I kept waiting for someone to realize that Zoomer is chipped, and they’ll never be able to hide him from Andy. He probably got tech or whatever to do it from Lu Mei’s smart cities. Otherwise why bother noting that everyone living there is tracked at all times.

No.

They can’t all be season 2 of The Wire.

They already made Extraordinary. It was called Encanto.