“Kill all of the misbehaving hosts, shut them down forever.”

A narrative in which audiences experience no emotional engagement with the successes of the protagonist is not a successful one. Fiction deepens feeling. If it doesn’t deepen feeling, it’s not fiction.

I don’t think the fans would abandon the show if there were less of the driving beat-up old cars and shooting automatic rifles. There would still be lots of stabbing, fire, and probably some horses, like in the comics.

“Driving My Life Away” really made me miss the Camaro. Phil is paying the karmic price for getting rid of it. NEVER get rid of your third gen F-body.

I know this show hasn’t been particularly realistic since season 1, if ever, but...the National Security Advisor can’t snatch someone from Russia without putting together a team of off-the-books US-based illegals, spearheaded by a mentally ill, inactivated CIA officer? No one who’d had a psychotic break like that, let…

He said reading it was nosey, stupid. Unless you think that’s what promoting this rag looks like. Failed attempt to walk that back.

How are these “incoherent” or “nonsense”? I see that you don’t agree with them, but it doesn’t appear you had any trouble understanding them; I certainly didn’t; the unanimity of the left’s response suggests they didn’t either. Who are these people who can’t understand the Tweets?

Okay, Walking Dead. You’ve done plot-important-but-otherwise-unexplained helicopters before. I didn’t like it then. I like it less now. WHO WAS OPERATING A HELICOPTER ON A SCHEDULE TO PICK UP TRASH WOMAN?! What changed that she has abandoned any knowledge of whatever’s going on there to join a local (?)settlement? If…

Her character isn’t so appealing. She lets her marital bitterness at her husband’s career come to the fore at literally life-or-death moments.

This show is definitely not VERY SERIOUS. The one kid is wisecracking through imminent death on an alien world like a long-term, hardened astronaut, and not like, you know, a kid. And the robot has any capability required by the plot. And the planet has multiple radically different climate-driven environments directly…

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The robot is an alien that responds only to the kid’s feelings, and has any capability the plot requires. This is a huge eyeroll from a sci-fi perspective, and also marginalizes the supposed 11-year-old boy genius as soon as it’s brought in.

“her daily life looks somewhat similar to that of a regular person”

Maybe...if all the “regular people” you know are super-hoes like these four, trying to find meaning in getting a picture with a celebrity—a truly pathetic quest on all levels.

It’s certainly not particularly funny. I appreciate the experimental nature of the work, but would not be surprised if many viewers feel alienated. Nature of the beast.

“(Which is fair, because where do the act breaks even go here?)“

Why do you include summaries as part of your reviews? Do you expect people who didn’t watch the episode to be reading this?

And she thinks she deserves that for...what? He pays her bills. She’s a prostitute with delusions of grandeur. “I don’t want to be introduced as a babymama! Even though I’ve never done anything else but get knocked up and expect the father to pay the bills and todance when I say to dance!” She should ASPIRE to…

I sat in front of the television shaking my head and saying “oh, man...there’s no way anyone can defend this”—then I come here and read “maybe a little over the top, but...” and it gets a grade of B. What can I say?

Not a fan of his acting or anything, but can you really directly connect the dots between him goofing on some particular reality show tramp and being racist? It’s not like one has to be racist to do that. Or is your real anger about the kneeling-for-the-anthem thing?

Oh yeah, Laura, with the attractive actress. That is a decent guess, Dr-Awkward. But even if it plays out that way, at least the Saviors aren’t always about to cry during their conversations with one another!

Another guess I saw a few people put forth was Sherry, but I can’t imagine Sherry would get in Negan’s car…

“another real-world burn in elliptical form”

Yeah, take that, all roughly-150 Nazis in the American viewing public! Actually, Suhayda’s group is definitely fewer than 100 and New Order has so few no one gets outed as one, so it might be even fewer. Hardly worth a line.