By your own admission (in an earlier recap of this series), you’ve read way too much about the Franklin Expedition. As someone who just heard about it from this show, and who is now thoroughly interested in it, would you be able to provide me with recommendations for the best materials (books, or otherwise) to check…

OMG I know. Goodsir...more like BESTPERSONEVERSIR.

This show is really impressive in its pacing, and how it manages to build both the characters and plot. In the beginning it’s so hard to tell everyone apart and determine what’s important and what’s incidental, combined with the thick accents and olde-timey dialog, and the first few hours were pretty easy to get lost…

Since we don’t know what actually happened i d like to think Crozier and Goodsir met up with the Inuit tribe and lived a long happy life in the arctic wilderness.

Oh, no doubt.

Yeah , but he deserves a Emmy for it. Hell, they all do.

Blanky was my favorite character, and I’m glad he’s basically the only person in the whole series who gets to go out on his own terms. The last scene between him and Crozier is so good, and perfectly acted.

I know It’s not going to happen but I would like to see Goodsir and Lady Silence make it out alive they can raise little goodsirs and goodladies together.

This is a weird area. Comedians are only supposed to come out with new stuff, while people want musicians to only play their old stuff. The Stones’ last tour, I don’t think anyone was complaining about them falling back on Satisfaction or Gimme Shelter. So why can’t comedians fall back on great ideas that are still as…

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I’m going to have a hard time when (if? But I’m assuming when) Goodsir’s clock eventually runs out.

I found the murder of Lt. Irving absolutely devastating. Here we have this pious, sanctimonious shit (an enormous and change from the laid back, womanizing Irving of the book) who seems absolutely at the end of his tether when we encounters the Inuit family. And then you realize that this is probably the first bit of…

Don’t worry, he’s having the negatives shipped safely via zeppelin to New Jersey!

The affectionate relationship between Crozier and his steward Jopson is also a welcome addition to the show that is nonexistent in the book (from what I recall). As you pointed out, the scene in which Jopson describes his mother’s laudanum addiction was beautifully touching because is his love for her, but also…

That scene with Blanky and Fitzjames was amazingly written, acted, and scored. It provided an unreasonable amount of chills for two guys sitting at a table talking calmly about something that happened long ago.

In general Show Hickey has a lot more depth and character than his book self.

What I mean to say is, Dr. Stanley’s mind is, or had been, a narrowly focused and finely titrated instrument that cannot process or accept anything resembling disorder and chaos. Even a little grit (the Greek/Latin mixup) was an unacceptable disturbance. God this was a powerhouse episode.

As big mistakes go, it was bigger than most.

Arguments could surely be made for any number of Bond films, and also Weird Al’s parody of them for Spy Hard.