Where last year’s Good Omens inelegantly translated Pratchett’s light and sardonic prose to the screen by having Frances McDormand literally read the novel to the audience

I’m picturing you on a park bench, reaching in to a bag as the bird approach and then tossing rocks at them.

OMG you’re right.

It only afterwards that this was probably the most brutal episode as it was filled with so many emotionally horrifying moments, but the way it never stopped to wallow in them just caused it to be this never-ending of sorrow in the best possible way. In addition, the fact that all of those moments were these common…

Of course you don’t remember it, Amy, because, as the Sony leak proved, you say about a million dumbshit things a day. That’s way too many to keep track of or even be aware of the individual dumbshit content levels.

Also, Lupe is a badass. I love that she’s attractive but not Movie Actress-Beautiful, has a personality, and is tougher than any of the male characters.

The new Penny Dreadful is just not very good it’s sad to say. Also really heavy handed and even though it’s supposed to be campy and what not it’s not pulling it off. I gave up after 4 episodes.

The look on his face when she’s done is absolutely priceless.

It was a hilarious reversal of how sex scenes are usually shot. She hammers him into a corner, literally wedged between the bed and the wall, then just leaves Perry stuck there to work his own way out. Instantly establishing the dynamic between the two characters.

All I see is undocumented middle-European mail order bride. Where ya papers biatch!

As a sidenote, there were three really awesome comparison scenes between Phyllis and Jill in this episode.

While I get the complaint about focusing each episode on a specific character, I feel get the decision. It isn’t just the show attempting to feature how divided and multi-faceted movement was, and how many issues it was dealing with, but it is also positioning Phyllis as a twisted reflection of all those parts of it.

This season has basically flipped over in a ditch on the side of the road. The underbelly is exposed, the wheels are spinning slowly and it may all go up in flames. All’s left is to wait for the tow truck to haul this shit to the junk yard.

PROUDLY SERVING FROM LAB TO SLAB

Sorry, but I thought the plot developments revealed this episode were dumb and I couldn’t suspend my disbelief. So they’re living in a totalitarian world where any “outliers” are killed or captured and reprogrammed? How many are there in a world population I’m assuming is close to our own (or even significantly lower)…

Generally speaking, the show just isn’t must see quality this season. The acting talent is great. The story, not so great. The production and direction apart from some good CGI, is almost amateurish for this scale of an HBO production.

As a sidenote, I think there is a really subtle choice they already did in the first episode and continued here.

References to Futureworld, GOT, Jurassic Park......clever by too much? Nah!

Me am big fan of Ex Machina, so me really looking forward to this.

Thank you for this. Been wondering why The Root has barely touched on arguably the blackest show on TV right now (at least thematically, if not black helmed). Would love to see signature Root analysis on it (although Joelle Monique at AV Club has been doing an amazing job), surely Panama is watching?