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On 10/22/2025 at 9:23 AM, Scary Stranger said:

So, aliens or the matrix?

My money is on alien hive mind given the title. Vince Gilligan does the Borg, but with less violently forced assimilation. Either way this looks great.

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10 hours ago, Radical Larry said:

It crashed AppleTV. Still need to finish episode 2, but this has been solid. 

Same. I went into it knowing absolutely nothing about the show, other than it was Gilligan and Seehorn teaming up again. 

Was not expecting anything like this. 

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Not reading the thread because I've only seen the first episode, but holy shit that may be the best season 1 episode 1 television program I have ever seen. It was almost like a standalone movie.

 

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Y'all watch episode 2 ASAP. I think it was better than ep 1. Really gets into the ramifications of this new world. And ...

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I love the intro scene with the new character seamlessly going from digging up bodies in the Middle East to helping this woman in New Mexico. Classic Vince Gilligan way to introduce a new character.

 

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14 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Y'all watch episode 2 ASAP. I think it was better than ep 1. Really gets into the ramifications of this new world. And ...

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I love the intro scene with the new character seamlessly going from digging up bodies in the Middle East to helping this woman in New Mexico. Classic Vince Gilligan way to introduce a new character.

 

Was going to post the same as far as the character intros and style. It's great. Reminded me of BB.

First two eps have been excellent. Except for her having a landline. I chuckled at that. But obviously they needed it for the plot.

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1 hour ago, Dr. Teeth said:

Small unimportant item but the chyrons on the TV when she is speaking to the official made me laugh more than it should have during a pretty solemn part of the episode. 

Lol seriously. YOUR LIFE IS YOUR OWN.

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Lab scenes bothered me as a bio lab worker but thry had to get from a to b somehow. 
 

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As always, I appreciate when writers respect the audience enough not to explicitly spell out everything no matter how obvious.  The example I’m thinking of is the opening scene of ep 2 which was mentioned above, in which there is no dialog because there doesn’t need to be spoken words any longer between members of the collective.  

I do wonder if there is an ending in mind.  I’m also having trouble reconciling the bit about taking over slowly at first, with the countdown clock being where it is. 

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2 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

I loved the bit about the under secretary being the only guy "intact," wearing a suit.  Lulz.  

I'm guessing that due to the military doing something and trying to fight the takeover, a bunch of the administration were being flown somewhere and crashed. Maybe tied to all of those aircraft she saw flying that night.

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I'm guessing that due to the military doing something and trying to fight the takeover, a bunch of the administration were being flown somewhere and crashed. Maybe tied to all of those aircraft she saw flying that night.

I thought the contrails were an allusion to their drastic measures to seed the rest of the population
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This is a good show. I smoked a bowl and watched the first episode and took a nap. Talk about some crazy dreams. 

I’m not sure if they will stick with her being a total asshole for the whole show, that might get old, but I’m definitely in. 

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This is a good show. I smoked a bowl and watched the first episode and took a nap. Talk about some crazy dreams. 
I’m not sure if they will stick with her being a total asshole for the whole show, that might get old, but I’m definitely in. 

I think that’s the point of her character.

She can’t be happy. So some love-in take over that basically is saying be happy, is gonna drive her to end their take-over.

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5 hours ago, Speedtrucker said:

I thought the contrails were an allusion to their drastic measures to seed the rest of the population

4 hours ago, aggie08 said:

I assumed it was bombing run to level the base where the outbreak began, but it was obviously too late.

The outbreak probably began in Maryland (they showed the real-life US Army installation), but the Very Large Array (the radio telescopes that got the original signal) is just a few hours away from Albuquerque.

But it's Vince Gilligan. Could be either explanation.

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Wow, the pilot was great.  I think it seemed a little more twilight zone than x-files but definitely gave that classic sci-fi feeling.

So we pick up an alien transmission of the genome for a virus and immediately synthesize it and start testing it on animals in a lab?  Yeah that seems about right.

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1 hour ago, YChang said:

How many of y’all are like… damn Mr. Diabaté is living the dream. 😄

For the first few weeks, I'd have some hot ass fishing guides . . .

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So when she was flying over to meet everyone, I joked to my wife that I’d be flying in a B2 stealth or F14 or some badass jet!!! Not a dang regular plane….

She said that’s dumb.

Then we see Diabate (sp?) roll in on Air Force One and I just laughed so damn loud, my wife said of course someone actually did that.




 

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Through Episode 1.

My best guess.

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The alien hive mind needs 100% participation to accomplish their mission.

I can’t work out yet why Carol and the other 11 didn’t catch the virus, but some people were immune to Covid, the Spanish Flu and other worldwide viruses. Nature is funny.

I also can’t work out why the virus killed humans including Helen in some numbers. If the aliens are trying to Borg the Earth, is killing so many humans effective? 
 

Interesting show to think about. 

 

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15 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Through Episode 1.

My best guess.

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The alien hive mind needs 100% participation to accomplish their mission.

I can’t work out yet why Carol and the other 11 didn’t catch the virus, but some people were immune to Covid, the Spanish Flu and other worldwide viruses. Nature is funny.

I also can’t work out why the virus killed humans including Helen in some numbers. If the aliens are trying to Borg the Earth, is killing so many humans effective? 
 

Interesting show to think about. 

 

 

I honestly don't believe this should be spoilered, but just in case:

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That jibes pretty well with my theory. Whatever the alien civilization's purpose, they need a highly docile and cooperative human population on Earth. But to your other point, they don't really care about the well-being of individual humans as long as the mission is achieved. And since humans are now all connected, as I assume the aliens themselves are, they might not actually believe in the concept of death the same way we do.

Well, I take that back, because many of us believe in life after death, so maybe that's similar to how these aliens conceive of it. But, regardless, I really don't think that's what this is all about. They need us for something.

 

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Through Episode 1.
My best guess.
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The alien hive mind needs 100% participation to accomplish their mission.
I can’t work out yet why Carol and the other 11 didn’t catch the virus, but some people were immune to Covid, the Spanish Flu and other worldwide viruses. Nature is funny.
I also can’t work out why the virus killed humans including Helen in some numbers. If the aliens are trying to Borg the Earth, is killing so many humans effective? 
 
Interesting show to think about. 

 



 
I think the deaths are often a combination of poor timing.

Like Helen, I think her death was because she fell backwards and hit her head really hard.

I’d imagine there were a lot of casualties because of accidents they couldn’t control during the take over. Additional casualties when the military response.

I mean if Carol’s tantrum killed 11million the first time, I’d imagine a 4 month take over would have some high death rates


 

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