LanceHunter

This episode was my favorite of the season. (And now my number 2 favorite of the series behind Fifteen Million Merits.) Also, I think it goes to show that while people compare Black Mirror to The Twilight Zone, its moral worldview is a lot closer to Tales from the Crypt. I mean, you can get an idea of what is coming, but there's some moments where you think that it can't possibly be as bad as you expect. Like, the unit commander is talking to the sympathizer civilian and talking about the danger of the roaches' blood and you think maybe there really is some deadly genetic condition that isn't necessarily visible and the powers can almost have some twisted justification for what they do. That would probably be the Twilight Zone version. But no, this is fucking Black Mirror. It's just straight-up Nazi-level eugenics. Explicitly and unquestionably evil, and our protagonist has to live with it. Damn. (Also little moments in the episode that hit much harder on re-watch, like how one of the soldiers talks about how dumb the country folk are because in the cities they managed to stomp out all the roaches quickly and without issue.)

I made the mistake of marathoning BoJack Horseman during a long Sunday coming down. Season 2 was a fucking gut-shot. The show is great, but damn it's bleak.

I gotta admit, after listening to all the heart-pouring over the cannon submission, I kinda wanted to see it get voted down.

Hrm... What would the subreddit about Supergirl, happening in the Supergirl universe, look like? 10% - "Let's use our collective intelligence to find out who this amazing superhuman is!" 20% - "Let's find out who this is so we can doxx her. It's about ethics in game journalism!" 20% - Jokes about how fast she can "make me a sammich" 50% - Supergirl upskirt photos (eventually breaks off into its own subreddit).

"Hanneman just made some bad bets on the market, although we get the idea that he was prodded to do so by his finance people" I think you have it backwards: Hanneman's quote is that he lost money with some investments "that my money guy let me talk him into". So it was Hanneman wanting to do something stupid, something his money guy didn't want him to do, that he made the money guy do anyways.

I marathon'd season 1 a few weeks ago when it showed up on Netflix. It was okay, but definitely frustrating. I kept hoping that there was something completely bananas like Lee Pace's character actually being a time traveller trying to make the PC revolution happen. (Which is the only way you can explain half of his weird-ass behavior in the first 5-6 episodes when he seemed to be some kind of near-superhuman manipulator.) I will say that this show is fucking on-point with its early-80s DFW metroplex look and feel. Pretty much every scene in Donna and Gordon's house was a huge flashback to my childhood. Hopefully the big take-away from last season is that they say "fuck the history" and just go with the story. The biggest annoyance I had with the first season was that they weren't close enough to the real history of how the IBM clones came about to be good history, but it was too faithful to how things happened to be able to go off in the weird directions that would have made for more satisfying stories.

Had to make my first comment on an EHG episode just to say I was also guessing Mission Hill for the Cake song (that ended up being for Chuck). God bless Mission Hill, you were so beautiful.

I'm enjoying the madness, but it is definitely madness. It seems like Harmon is very explicitly attempting to deconstruct the show (and sitcoms in general) now, kind of trying to top himself in the "how post-modern can I make this" contest. Honestly, though, when you get to season 6 or almost any show, that's what you should be doing.