Man, remember when the AV Club used to have reviews for each new episode of South Park? I mean, for the last few years they were more like really shitty synapses than actual critical reviews, and most of the comments were just people complaining about how much the author sucked but . . . think of all that engagement!

Great episode (well.. they all are) with just the right amount of laughs and sadness and surprises.

And now for another sorrowful year without Poppy and Ian in my life. Look, this wasn’t the smoothest season, and it feels like we got here way too soon. It had some highs, but it felt more focused on “get characters from A to C” storytelling.

Charlotte Nicdao... making one laugh while also making one’s heart pitter-patter!

Your last point is true with regards to American children, but I have it on good authority that Australian children still have to wrestle three crocodiles on the way to school every day, so they must be made of tougher stuff. (Probably Marmite.)

And they had the only pandemic remote episode I’ve ever seen of a show that was both moving and funny!

The look/pause after Poppy said it was Sarian that inspired her.
That was *chef’s kiss* acting by Rob McElhenney. That said so much without words in just a couple of seconds.

She was amazing. One of the only times I could totally believe a child actor would grow up to be their adult counterpart. And she nailed the poppyisms perfectly while also having that naive enthusiasmof youth. It was a perfect performance.

Well, another season, another “experiment episode” that floors me. This is why I tune into this show every week. It’s capable of surprising me.

Sarian? As in: Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter?

This show dares to say hell with the comedy formula which is large reason why it works. Beside the casting of course. Never would have worked on anything but Apple+ and only because Apple was so new that they had yet moved to algorithmic choices like all the other streamers have. Now I doubt it would have been…

How great was Isla Rose Hall as young Poppy? She absolutely nailed it, front to back, from the sly enthusiasm to the “eat shit".

I’m very much looking forward to the MQ movie totally flopping plot.

Great use of the Featureless White Void in Poppy’s big scene this episode.

One wonders how stupid the ideas people at the big tech companies are.

Siri didn’t fail because Siri is used for exactly what Apple intended: Data harvesting in the guise of a search assistant. They never expected people to use it for buying other stuff.

She runs our lights and Roomba and is good for music out in the garage or whatever.

Think his wry smile showed he's all in on Cassian

Anyone else old enough to pick up on the Irish analogies here? I mean Christ, that funeral scene!