What was up with Nate’s homoerotic/close-talking interrogation of McKay?

Brilliant intro for season 2. And didn’t Nate narc him? He was likely fucked for crossing the line Fez threw out of not messing with Rue or Jules - maybe that could have mellowed. But the narcing? Yeah. Nate’s bowlcut cracker from the grandma sequence. It’s not if, it’s when.

Exactly, that beatdown was so overdue.  Makes me like Fez even more

That was the most stressful hour or so of television I’ve watched in a while. The music is fantastic. The acting is extremely good. The writing was improved.

Just based on the reactions I’m seeing online Fez’s beat down of Nate may go down in the all-time “babyface finally gets one on the heel and the crowd goes wild” Hall of Fame TV moments. People love Fez (and how about that lowkey chemistry with Lexi!) and they HAAAATE Nate.

Do high school students still play DMX at parties? Maybe there’s hope for the future after all.

Fez has small talk with Nate before brutally assaulting him.

Jesus. I missed the Alex comment completely. I thought “is that Tyler? No. He said his name was Dave.”

My favorite thing about the show is Matilda Lawler as Kirsten. She’s such great actor. Fave scene is Franks rap and Kirstens dance to it.

I randomly started watching this because Mackenzie Davis is awesome (Halt and Catch Fire, forever!). I Didn’t know anything about it but goddamn if it isn’t the best show I have seen in a long time.

Jeevan hiding under a heat blanket, bleeding out in the snow, yelling at the graphic novel for being “so pretentious!” is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. This show has completely blown me away. That birth scene was so poignant that my eyes actually stung from tears. 

Thanks to HBO and Avclub for covering this, it’s been a welcome addition to my pandemic survival kit.

The baby does survive. We see Deborah write up a birth cert for her under the name Alexandra. It’s Alex.

This show is SO good I can’t believe one of the best shows of the year was left to drop at a weird time like this

Enrico Colantoni will always be Elias to me.....

I can’t remember if it’s the same character in the book, but there’s a big element of the people at the museum trying to get people to visit, including the troop. I don’t remember the reasons being sinister. The lack of inane Walking Dead-style motivations was one of the refreshing aspects of the book, iirc.

I think it’s the clear implication that she helped the wolves, and that she was not aware of this until she woke up. Don’t know what Taissa’s light at the end of the tunnel is (for that matter, what is it for any of them :/ - can barely watch yet can’t look away!)

There is an intense conversation between Taissa and Shauna about Nat’s addiction, with Shauna taking a far less sympathetic position.

I would not have recognized Jasmin Savoy Brown as Evangeline from Season 2 of The Leftovers without some fortuitous IMDbing to see if I recognized her in the background of another movie I watched right after this episode, but color me extra impressed!

The humor was so much better this episode, thanks to the theater troupe: “Hi!” “Don’t talk to him.” and “We’re doing Hamlet set in Poland.” “Portland.” “Whatever.” “Huh?” were my favorite exchanges.