Yep. And I bet you know a lady with twins named Oranjello and Lemonjello, too.

Strait is fine as Holden.

I know this for a fact, not one instance but many.

I think this is what makes Amos such an interesting character. It’s extremely rare to have a character with his psychopathic tendencies also be so self aware and interested in doing the ‘right’ thing even if he can’t quite tell himself what the right thing is supposed to be. There are a couple parts in Nemesis Games…

Hah - I just wrote a post saying completely the opposite! I think he’s done such a great job capturing Amos’ casual psychopath tendencies that I can’t imagine anyone else in the role.

Wes Chatham has to be just about the best novel-to-TV/film casting I have ever seen. He is channeling Amos so well, it’s absolutely freaky.

No, it still is. Their experiences are not recorded, confirmed, catalogued, and placed alongside experiences where no fraud is reported to determine rate and importance.

ding ding ding. That’s where the judgement of people on SNAP comes from. that’s where this hatred of helping the poor comes from. That’s why everyone is convinced the poor are fleecing us of our tax money. They see being poor as a character flaw, a bad trait that is the poor’s own problem and fault.

That was a great scene for the all the reasons described above, but also for the creeping horror it triggers in the viewer and in Holden as the audience in the conversation. Not only are you left wondering where the conversation is going, and grossed out when you understand what Amos is talking about, but you are…

EVERY damn story of food stamp abuse I’ve ever heard always cites “steaks and seafood! Carts full of steaks and seafood!!” But then when you talk to SNAP users how much steak and seafood are they eating? None. I’m not saying you’re wrong but.... I think you’re wrong.

In America, wealth is treated as a character trait. It is assumed that if someone is wealthy—regardless of how they got their wealth—they are good and virtuous. We even worship (some subconsciously, some consciously) this ideology, to the point that we’ve put “In God We Trust” on our money.

And so with Naomi, he replaced that void when he and Lydia parted ways and she operates as kind of a moral compass to really balance him out in a lot of ways.

Kudos to Syfy for the Apollo tribute right before the break. It was brief but I appreciated the acknowledgement. So say we all!

I love the “morality” of judging people who need assistance. What the hell is wrong with our country where being poor is considered a moral failing? You know what should be a moral failing? Walmart paying people so little that they need SNAP just to survive: http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2011/bigbox_livingwage_po…

I promise I am not trying to say your take is wrong, I firmly believe everyone is right in how they view a work, but I’ve always felt that Amos basically has no emotions or morals and views that as wrong, and so latches on to those who can serve as a moral compass for him. Naomi, Holden, etc.

He’s not completely…

And he has this way of delivering lines that if it were anyone else, it would be such a zinger. But with him, he’s just asking it.

Holden is the weak link of the show for me so far. Enjoying all the other actors in the roles (although Bobbi’s performance is meh so far; she still has time). Miller is too attractive, but otherwise Jane is on it and I can’t fault a TV show for going after looks.

Right! Those same people show no outrage with the Pentagon loses literal millions of dollars. But God forbid we feed the hungry and let them have the same small indulgences that other people get.

What frustrates me about this is that people love to complain about SNAP fraud when even if some of it was fraud, the amount we spend on that is NOTHING compared to what we spend on the military or healthcare. This is screaming over fractions of pennies.