Yes, this. The jokes so often fell flat. Out of all the movie catchphrases to gin up support for the revolution, they chose "Show me the money"? What? Why not Bluto's speech from "Animal House", or an inspirational halftime/pregame speech from "Remember the Titans" or "Friday Night Lights"?

Also, I think it's a pretty good bet that she is immune. Her husband who had been sleeping next to her that night woke up with blood on his pillow. Her frenemy was the last person she saw alive, and subsequently she saw her dead.

Sure, but if they were being realistic, there's no way they ever would have had the astronaut brother find his way to Tandy.

It really does, and for me not in a refreshing way. I enjoy seeing TV characters smoke weed, but when it's cigarettes it makes me imagine I can actually smell that harsh, acrid odor and it is kind of a drag (no pun intended),

I'm over 40 and my wife and I are planning to move to a new city next year…so even though your comment was meant to be reassuring, the "from scratch it might be" has got me worried!

That would be, but personally I'm not seeing it. (And I don't mean that as a dis of Dern: I thought "Enlightened" was one of the best shows of recent years.)

But then would they have shown her leaving the bunker? I think we'll see her again.

Maybe it got better, but there were only two funny moments in the "Baskets" pilot, both involving beverages: the endless litany of minor league soda names ("Anything in the Schweppes family?") in the drive-through, and Louie Anderson's chugging and spraying of a bottled drink followed by "that hit the spot".

Big fan of him, and the Smiths…but I'm not getting the joke, sorry.

"My God, this overgrown child." Perfectly put. Am I a horrible person for finding this equally repulsive as the pussy grabbing?

Yes, I thought it was weird that the AV Club reviewer made the assumption that Chuck had that as his diabolical plot all along. I suppose I didn't have long to ruminate on the episode before seeing that post-show discussion, but my sense is that at the very least I felt it was ambiguous as to how much it was planning…

Does anyone have any idea why this is rated significantly below all other episodes of the show on IMDb?

It really was a beautiful episode, one of the best dramatic episodes network TV has produced in recent memory. Last week's episode was quite good, as well. Which is really comforting, because there was a point not too many weeks before that when I was on the edge of bailing out on the show (the nadir being when…

And then of course there are cases like yours, where you just heard of the show recently. We should welcome you to its fandom, not scorn you for being late. And you should be able to read comments about one episode without people spoiling later ones.

Yes! And although your sister was obviously being malicious, there are so many people, like the one I was responding to, who genuinely don't think about the fact that new people are being made all the time, meaning people are coming of age all the time.

It's weird that this is supposed to appeal to fans of "Rick and Morty" and "Louie". I adore both those shows, but this mostly fell flat for me. The only two bits I enjoyed were the drive through quest for Shweppes etc., and the "that hit the spot" line after coughing and spraying the drink everywhere.

I went through the series believing all the sci-fi elements were basically just in Naota's head, or were sort of stylized representations of an underlying quotidien, naturalistic reality. But that started to seem harder to justify in the finale. Was I way off?

Why would you think it's okay to openly discuss a later episode, just because a week had gone by? In this modern era, shows live eternally in the streaming world where people can get into them at any time. I just watched this episode with Hulu, for instance.

I would be right there with you, except for an experience I had in the '90s in Boulder Colorado. A street performer was doing mediocre juggling to add a visual element, but his real schtick was to ask people to call out their ZIP codes, and he would identify their city. I heard a few people do it, and I was kind of…

Has anyone calculated how much time, at a minimum, has to have transpired since the pilot? It seems like his projects often take a significant amount of time (certainly the two in this episode had to take the better part of a year). How often do his show's episodes air? Or am I just supposed to be handwaving all…