Thank you for the actual review, opposed to the summary above.

First, North Korean, not South, but I suspect you’ll get more than a few people with that correction. Per Reddit, the Cernan football refers to him telling Ellen about throwing it on the moon, which is what inspired her to do the tank toss with Apollo 24. Also, Nixon’s portrait has been there all season.

Oh I’m fuming about the suspension of disbelief that is required for the audience to believe that a two-year mission to Mars keeps Oxy and amphetamines in an unlocked, unmonitored cabinet. Bullshit. That mission would have at minimum one doctor or nurse. Somebody would be dispensing the drugs and keeping track of the…

I can’t decide who is my favorite character: Willie Jack or Big.

The Hale bot was always a little off, her version of Dolores did not have an easy time adjusting to her surroundings and she took out stress by cutting into herself with her fingernails. All these perfect hosts she’s made she’s made as copies of herself, just like OG Dolores did to make herself a Hale. Therefore, I…

That ending theme was great. Kind of Giorgio Moroder-ish. 

Also - there are these insurance ads on TV here in England - that make me wonder, maybe what Charlotte Hale and all the suicidal hosts need is a nice trip to Brighton beach ....

Off-topic, but I commented last week that Tessa Thompson’s look during that whole waltz-in-the-streets scene - with the white dress, slicked-back immaculate pony-tail, and hoop earings - seemed like she was channeling a certain smooth operator from almost 4 decades ago. I went back to watch the music video and I was…

Pretty uneven episode, but damn, I will probably keep watching if only for Ramin Djawadi’s music. He just knocks it out of the park every time.

Was that a waste of Daniel Wu, or what?

Right? In 20 years of six-month missions, nobody on the Moon hooked up? You’d think NASA would have planned for this...

It’s amazing how little surprise there is on this show. The second we know Kelly and the Russian are having sex, we know she’ll be pregnant. As soon as Danny starts his admission of him and Karen, the hab is rescued.

While it sets up some future issues, overall the episode had way too many cliches that have been done to death. I’m disappointed in the episode for having so many:the genius having the outside the box solution, the rescue happening just before a character tells the other one a secret, carrying a dead man’s baby,…

I know it’s a show, but I find it surprising that she was not on some form of birth control knowing what the consequences could be for getting pregnant 100 million miles from Earth, or how it could jeopardize her mission, which is finding life on Mars. But hey, writers need to write. 

“Gotta wonder, though, if Ronald D. Moore is familiar with the Arthur C. Clarke’s 1951 novel, The Sands Of Mars, which involves a father-son subplot.”

Good catch! That pesky AE-35 unit was the start of all their problems!

The tracking number of the “sprayer” crate is 1968-AE35, which is a fun “2001" in-jokey reference.

Based on many of the sports references between Gene and the security guy, this episode would seem to be set in late 2013. I had always assumed the Omaha story was set in present day, but it’s apparently only about three years after the events of Breaking Bad.

I loved the Dirty Dozen homage with Gene making rhymes…

That’s an extremely US-centric perspective. Outside the US (or I guess I should say outside North America as I know nothing about Canada), the availability of “small” movies at a cinema has undergone a sea change since the 1960s and 70s and not for the better . This is largely due to importing the American model of…

Ah yes, the days of my youth when we lined up around the block to get tickets for fucking Fanny and Alexander.