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   glintspear January 7, 2026 at

   Great review.
   This ‘sleep walking’ to destruction premise is a great metaphor for what is happening in The West. The liberal approach to mass illegal migration, the profound societal and cultural threat of Islam, the spread of natural and culture self-loathing, the march of the new Marxists, the total infusion of Post Modernism in academia, and so on. It is very much like this. I have many liberal friends who are committing treason against their nation — and civilisation itself — because they have been taken over by suicidal empathy (especially the women) and a fear of loss of social status and respectability (the men). It all reminds me of the pious fake Christians I grew up with in the 80’s – they are now ‘liberals’.
   I was deeply disappointed to see Vince Gilligan taking the knee on several occasions in this first season — given growing ‘woke fatigue’ – he’s very late to the party, considering the even-handedness and objectivity of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad.
   It reminds me a little of George Lucas and Star Wars — I was shocked at how he was captured; I thought he would be immune, given the depth of symbolism and originality of his first trilogy (although some attribute that to his close ties with Joseph Campbell).

   This is a very fair and even-handed review, I would not have been so fair. I agree that there is mockery of progressives, but it still has the taint of all the liberal shibboleths on it, even though, as you say, right now, they don’t intrude.
   Also fair point on the length. I love a slow burn, but this is not that — it is tedious, empty.
   Given his legacy, we give Vince Gilligan massive latitude — and assume this is all going to turn out to be another stroke of genius. That said, I’m very sceptical,

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   btiz January 16, 2026 at

   There’s an even higher level self own here, which is that Carol’s position is exactly the one taken by religious people when addressing the “problem of suffering” argument against the existence of God. The argument goes that a loving God would not have created a world with so much suffering. The rebuttal is that a world with freedom necessitates the freedom to choose to do bad as well as good. If God forced a world without suffering (the idyllic society the hive mind creates in the show) there would be no freedom (exactly how we see the infected people living in the show), a consequence that Carol finds so obvious that she has a hard time believing all the other immune people don’t automatically agree with her. Do the show runners know this? I doubt it.

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