MrPissyPuppy

I thought that the phone was a bit jarring since it was still a bit of a luxury to have a phone in your home in 1940, especially in the projects.

A bit of a homage to Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" there with the apartment and apartment building, I think!

In her defense, she was totally understandable (and awesome) in Spartacus and Lucifer, so it appears to be a production choice.

I think that was creative license or Navarro hallucinating. There's an excellent documentary titled A Certain Kind of Death (on YouTube) about people who die without anyone to make burial arrangements. For the indigent who are unclaimed after a period of time, they cremate. First was the cremation process, then it cools and is raked into a pan and put through a grinder type of thing before being boxed. Ask A Mortician goes into much more detail about exactly what happens at each step: https://youtu.be/6TSFX-hFgIk?si=TjKeCdPcowOE_NO7

Enterprising older kids turned them into clackers and sold them to the younger kids. It's a wonder we didn't all knock out our teeth!

The bubbly chandelier reminded me of those glass grapes and clackers from the 1970s, but it looked okay once installed.

I got a bit of Dionne quintuplets vibe from the doctor who oversaw Brenda's pregnancy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/11/03/dionne-quintuplets-exploitation-five-girls-raised-baby-zoo/

This is interesting - gives a background on (W)GBH and has archives of some of the shows including from the 1960s. https://americanarchive.org/participating-orgs/1784.2 (Click on view all records to access the files - the older files appear to be mostly audio.)

If you're one of the people that missed out on some/all of the first seven seasons AND have HBO/Max and want to see what you missed (or didn't), they've worked out a deal with AMC+ and will be showing it through the end of October. https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/max-amc-plus-series-fear-walking-dead-1235706198/

There's the last scene of World Beyond which talks about variants & I think is setting things up for Daryl Does France. Walking Dead World Beyond Post Credits Scene

I whipped through this quickly and enjoyed it. It's gory, but not "serious" gore if you know what I mean. I hope there's a season two!

That has always bugged me about this particular zombie universe. I. Don't. Care. About. The. Kids. There - I said it. I want to know what the original characters are up to. And if you're going to insist on making kids the main characters, then at least age them up enough so that their actions & dialogue make sense. Yeah, an 8 year old is totally going to be able to do radiation therapy & convince adults to do stuff. Right. (I do think the actress playing Mo is doing a decent job.)

Dwight calls Sherry honey a lot. Shrike (and one of The Minimalist guys) remind me of Eraserhead.

So that bottle drying rack that Ben & his buddies found when out scavenging reminded me of this by Marcel Duchamp circa 1914 - I guess we should be happy it wasn't a discarded urinal!