Hopefully this is the final nail in the coffin of pretending that Sam Levinson has anything interesting or even worthwhile to say (which somehow hasn’t happened despite him writing and directing an absolute navel-gazing turd like Malcom & Marie). I like Euphoria but it’s carried entirely on the shoulders of its…

Whatever their review weighting system is, it can’t possibly be worse than letting randos on the internet determine the score 

I feel like there’s hostility being read into some fairly bland, tongue-in-cheek tweets/signs. I suppose “see you on the picket line” is kind of passive-aggressive, but that’s about it. Portraying it as “WGA assholes make delightful young actor a scapegoat for their strike” kind of reveals the writer’s sympathies. 

I had to come back here to your post because our viewpoint has been endorsed by a series of actual doctors via Slate:

Yeah, I haven’t been nearly as conflicted as many of the reviewers are. Maybe the game sets up a humanity vs. Ellie choice, but the show doesn’t imo. The show hasn’t pitched the Fireflies as saviors or particularly competent. They get attacked in Boston. They lose half their party getting Marlene across the country.…

Yes, the logic really doesn’t track. This is not the moral dilemma the writers think it is unless you ignore info from both reality and the show (the Fireflies are sorta incompetent. How would they create a cure? Wouldn’t this be a vaccine not a cure? How has there not been progress in 20 years? Why can’t we just take…

If Marlene and the Fireflies are so certain this is what Ellie would want... they could fucking ask her.

This. Ellie didn’t consent, even if she did tell Joel she wanted to see it through earlier. Without full knowledge of what that means (ie: her death), she cannot make an informed choice or give consent. And like you, I wasn’t nearly confident enough in Marlene’s theory of the “cure” to sacrifice a child for it. (Plus,…

Does Joel go overboard in reclaiming Ellie: Yes.

Well, I know of one random Redditor who will be happy tonight. I recently came across a comment over there complaining bitterly about the fact that giraffes, even those in captivity, hate being stroked and petted like it is in the game.

There have been so many moments in this series between Joel and Ellie, in their long road to build trust, even love. But that scene between them:

If there’s any doubt we’re in post-apocalyptic times, I give you: Commies in Wyoming.

Wow you really told on yourself twice over.

Loved her and wouldn’t/couldn’t admit it, because then admitting it would mean he lost someone he loved, which he probably swore to himself he’d never do again after the death of his daughter. Somewhat parallels his insistence that his brother is alive: since he loves his brother, he can’t admit he might be lost. 

Yes, exactly. She’s not evil, the *collaborators* are evil. The doctor and Henry, unless we learn otherwise, were effectively Nazi collaborators that sold out their friends and community. Sorry you don’t get to pretend things can go back to the way they were once the Nazis are overthrown. The rebels are the good guys…

The letdown after last week’s All Time Episode was inevitable, but this was not a good episode of anything. I appreciate what the episode had to do and the information they had to dump, but it was not all that compelling. Mazin should have directed his own script here.

Melanie Lynskey’s career literally started with her being an unknown cast in Heavenly Creatures because she conveyed this rare quality of being unassuming on the surface and being able to convey dark thoughts and energy underneath that 

I always think Lynskey’s power as an actor is in her ability to evoke a lot of darkness below what may seem an unassuming surface. she seems to make sense as a leader, someone with a foot in the old world of things and in the new.

I do this all the time. Commonly you would clarify "Upstate New York" because the assumption is usually that when someone says "New York" that the reference is to the city.

Winters in the NYC tri-state area have been increasingly depressing over the last bunch of years. 40 degrees and constantly just soggy from all the rain.  If it does snow it’s washed away very soon after.