This is a cool show. I can’t help but hate Carol, and I can’t figure out if the show is trying to make me hate her or if she really is supposed to be some kind of antihero. It’s interesting that we have very little information about what the lives of the other individuals were like before the joining. Carol is very petit bourgeois coded, clearly your archetypical western chauvinist. She’s basically monolingual, a fantasy slop mogul, deeply uncurious, self centered, and stubborn. She assumes that everyone else who is unjoined is of the same mind set, and the only other character aligned with her appears to be even more antisocial then she is.
It’s hard to say what this show is really about. There was that throw away line in the second or third episode where Carol says she is the “second greatest mass murder next to Stalin” and you could read this so many ways. Yet the show makes it very clear that the world Carol wants to return to is one full of harm and violence. That her resistance to this situation actively kills people
Hopefully this doesn’t turn into a show that doesn’t know how it ends and keeps running on a treadmill for several sessions.
This is going to stretch for multiple seasons lol. We are just at Day 48 right now and no one is equipped to take on the hivemind.
I guess that the hivemind will successfully convert one of the immune ones and it’ll start a panic among remaining survivors.
For sure we’re not at the end-end, I just mean that for this season to land at all there’s going to need to be something other than two characters having an elaborate meal together and then remarking on how weird all this is. I like the idea of converting one of the other survivors, that would definitely add some spice to what’s going on.