SnarkShark

Center Square should NEVER not be a comedian (yes, Paul Lynde counted). It's not just about the most airtime. It's about the person getting that maximum airtime landing a joke every time.

I'll watch the first two next season and decide. This was mediocre enough in parts they'll have to retool and improve to get me.

Bridges (the seeming baddy) and Ritter (I guess... serving as Olympia 's love interest... he's not much of a mentor for Matty) could easily be replaced with other people in those positions. Olympia is essential. She's Matty's sounding board (even if she doesn't realize it), her initial main target (the role she's already shed) and mentor. She also gets the most subplots, even including Maddy, because the majority of what Matty does has to be centered around her mission. So she's treated like a protagonist almost as much as Matty. You Two are important mostly because cleaning house all at once on characters is a dangerous move with a hit show. But I'd also argue we've learned a great deal about both of them. You don't want to waste that character development.

I think she gets outted. I'm betting Season 2 is a reset. Olympia and "You Two" are the only essential people from the firm, IMO. So a Season 2 either at that firm (or not) are both possible as long as those three people are still main cast members (along with Matty, of course).

Telling us that it's out there PLUS indicating that it leaves you wondering where Season 2 goes DEFINITELY suggests she gets outted.

I'd say both probably could be discussed. Roy even guest hosted an episode of the British version.

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To a large degree anyone who works at a firm like that gets vetted with a full background check. Which might explain the lack of security internally... but makes it even more ridiculous that a fictional person, "Madelyn Matlock" got hired in the first place. Usually there would be printers either right inside the lawyer's office, or at their assistant's desk, although not necessarily any real security when those people are away from their desks. But there'd also be a big difference between how legal documents are produced and how a mere email is printed. The legal docs would be saved in a document management system, and official copies used for filings would be printed centrally by a documents department. An email would just be routed to any old printer in or outside someone's office.

This could play out only a few ways. Jod himself could only majorly profit by selling the planet's location (a significant reward for the kids being returned is a pipe dream, especially after seeing how regimented that society is). We could have a moral crisis where he decides if he's going to do that. There could also be a plot with them accidentally leading pirates to the planet. Finally... the planet leadership could turn out to be overt heavies, trying to bury the whole thing once they return. At minimum wiping out Jod (and the kids may feel compelled to save him by that point). At maximum, wiping out anyone with detailed knowledge of outside (so the kids too, and possibly the parents).

If not human, she's a close human analogue, but besides her cybernetic enhancements, she's also got that white hair that suggests she could be something else, given that white hair is pretty rare (albeit not impossible) in actual young humans. That said, the previous character we know with cybernetic enhancements, Lobot, is clearly identified as human in Star Wars lore.

There's definitely a sense that returning home (likely the season ender) will cause even bigger problems. I guess we'd been led to assume (by the early looks at the show) that Suburbia Planet is something it's not. It's not an ordinary planet. It's a secret, and the kids leaving is only going to be a problem made even worse by them leading people back. Thumbs up for this subverting expectations so quickly.

Reviewing back my own last post I may have changed my mind about how someone else doing the narration might have been the fix. Maybe nobody needed to. I remembered how Ted Lasso wrapped things up with a look forward montage (admittedly less time and more straightforward) and avoided it seeming too sweet. The scenes told the story, not some narration. Show, don't tell.

They've got to Michael Scott Wendy's character. She can only be annoying if she's also lovable. Either that or they'd have to go to the other extreme and make her the antagonist.

My controversial hot take is that the emotional stuff at the end was too heavy handed. I didn't hate or even dislike the majority of the individual parts of it, but it felt too sicky -sweet to me. I get that the legacy of Superman is positivity. I get (and was one of the many people who viscously criticized) the Grimdark versions of Superman, both on film and even the occasional turns in that direction in the comics. I get (and agree with) the overall tone of this show and most of the writing and decisions along the way. I get (and agree with) that there had to be a decisive happy ending. I don't even dislike a lot of the plot and character decisions for the very end. But the actual execution felt heavy handed. Again, this isn't hate. It didn't "ruin" anything for me. I just have some feeling that some tweaking of what they did could have made it even better. My gut says that an outside view of what we saw would have felt less sappy. It did need a narration, but I think it shouldn't have been Clark. If they changed the plot up and had Clark die first. Lois would have been a natural for it. But they also could have used one of the sons, or even Lana. I'm on the fence on if changing the narration would have meant erasing the after death sequence. They could have still transitioned from the narration of someone else to just seeing that stuff. Although even there I think meeting Lois was all that was really necessary. The wave goodbye to all people living and dead sequence might be as close as I come to actually disliking any piece of it strongly. That could have been structured with the people living being in the house at the time of his death, and the deceased (but honestly... really just Lois) being there after death. If they needed to give the younger actors screen time at the very end, the only touch needed was seeing his two adult sons transition to looking like the younger ones as he started to die. Again, this is mild criticism. Takes it from being superior to just better than average. And I'm sure many (most) will angrily disagree with me.

Yes. But the show will have a challenge keeping that from being boring.