I love the who am I interview scene so much, showing everyone is so much more than just their sexuality, gender, where they were born, it all makes you who you are. As someone not a fan of labels it makes so much sense to me.
Jusskitten
2025-10-14 04:32:15 +0000 UTC
I remember seeing an estimate of the budget and my eyes bugged out. I know it's not necessary and plenty of great shows shoot from vastly different cities/countries, but I really enjoyed that part of the production. Being in the actual city did make it more visceral for me. For the places I've never been, it's kind of cool to know that the locations are real (even if it's some of the touristy stuff). And it's delightful to see the nooks and crannies of the cities I know well.
courtru
2025-09-22 02:33:55 +0000 UTC
I'm always going to delight in a Reverse Uno reference - loved the callback to IWTV. Good stuff. I loved season 1 but season 2 still feels next level. It feels like more of a genuine ensemble to me with a better balance of all the characters. And the amount of all the backstory and lore they're throwing in could be overwhelming but they pace it nicely, sometimes with little breadcrumbs before the big infodump. And I appreciate the supporting characters so much from Sun's prison auntie to Jela and all the partners & parents. Though Rajan and Hernando are extra real ones for me, I have such a soft spot for Amanita, partially because I first knew abut this show because I'll watch Freema Agyeman in anything. It just warmed my heart that she wants to protect Nomi's sensate family like her own.
courtru
2025-09-22 02:28:45 +0000 UTC
Your little giggle after “you think you’re hunting us? We’re coming for you!” I felt that in my SOUL lolll
Julia Timlin
2025-09-21 00:22:23 +0000 UTC
I'm still watching, haven't gotten through all of it but just dropping a couple of comments as they come to me. That premier with Lito was BRUTAL but I loved the monologue and the cut scenes with all of them and the dual interview with Capheus. Also Zakia is jaw droppingly beautiful, like DAMN. And now I'm watching the scene where they visit Sara's mother, the little girl that Whispers murdered. The first time I saw this I cried through the whole scene and then the reveal that Whispers KNEW her, he was her tutor, she and her mother trusted him - oh that hit me so hard. I thought he was evil before but I always thought he just snatched her off the street or something - this made it so so so much worse. Whispers really is one of the most chilling characters I've ever seen. That man has no soul, no compassion - he is an empty shell masquerading as a human being.
Ava Sinclair
2025-09-20 22:41:14 +0000 UTC
54:02 talking about Val's grandma and the dove
Omens are real because we believe them to be - and there's nothing more powerful than that
Katie
2025-09-20 20:31:18 +0000 UTC
That song immediately takes my mind to that film Away We Go w/ Maya Rudolph & John Krasinski
Katie
2025-09-20 20:24:05 +0000 UTC
The language thing (that they all speak English) has been commented on during the first season already, but now rewatching the series I think they improved sounding a bit more localized even if they still use English! I think it was ridiculous how all the bad guys in season 1 sounded like American gang members. Now they have at least used some local terms like matatu
Sruppa
2025-09-19 19:23:35 +0000 UTC
love this
Franklin
2025-09-19 18:09:38 +0000 UTC
Thanks for adding that
Franklin
2025-09-19 18:08:25 +0000 UTC
33:40, I'm not a expert but I study anthropology and I had classes on homo sapiens and other species before us, and the idea of a genocide by homo sapiens is widely controversial. Most of the scientist do not agree and the reality is far more complex. I think that idea is popular because a lot of media thought it would be a good title. Again, I'm not a specialist and I might be wrong, so if anyone have more information, I'm interested
Marianne
2025-09-19 06:09:29 +0000 UTC
The "who am I?" speech has always been so powerful to me. But even more so right now. I'm in the US, and the idea of "obedience in advance," and betraying yourself is pervasive right now. What defines someone is a difficult question, but it seems a certain group of people who follow a particular leader have decided what does, and if it means it should result in legal ramifications. Or your right to exist or have equal right. All of which is the case in my family. So this kind of question keeps coming up a lot. I ask them who they are, relative to the people around them. Who they think I am, and why. And I have to constantly ask myself if who I am is truly remaining the same, or am I letting myself be changed. "Who am I" is a very difficult question, indeed, especially when who you thought you were hits an obstacle that terrifies you. It isn't my first time, but this is the most intense. Usually these things just give me PTSD over a shorter time, from one direction, and are over. It has been years, technically, though power kicked in more recently. And I still have years to go.
Jade
2025-09-19 04:48:59 +0000 UTC
I sometimes think back to my first visit to a holistic optometrist, who gave me the standard eye exam, then something of an impromptu (dead-on) psych eval. I was 19.
He said: Your eyesight is so bad that it makes no sense that you haven't been wearing your glasses. The only explanation I can think of is that you feel overwhelmed when you can see past your little bubble of proximate clarity. Without glasses, beyond a certain perimeter, the world is fuzzy. And that's a security blanket for you.
When I tell you I was in TEARS. (This was also before my autism diagnosis, which also gave me a lot of answers re: my history of sensory overload.) He gave me a lighter prescription than I actually needed so I could ease myself more gently into full apprehension of the world—and fuller embrace of the vulnerability that attends that.
Anyway I agree with you. I think spiritually and intellectually, a ton of people prefer the security blanket. But even on the level of visceral experience, I've learned (and you already knew) that a lot of wonder and exhilaration lies on the other side of elective limitation.
Atom
2025-09-19 04:21:42 +0000 UTC
the conversation that Capheus and his date have over their meal has always been lovely, but it made me sob today after this last week(year). Progress feels so far when we don't remember that things aren't "details"
anna w
2025-09-19 03:30:01 +0000 UTC
Episode 2 is a bit COEXIST-bumper-sticker for me, but it's still an expertly crafted banger
Atom
2025-09-19 03:28:00 +0000 UTC
I think this series has possibly the best soundtrack use of any series ever. Alexi Murdoch’s All of My Days is a highlight of this last episode, and obviously 4 Non-Blonde’s Say Hey is absolute peak.
Amanda Grace
2025-09-19 03:10:40 +0000 UTC
I like to ask people if they believe in aliens or the paranormal as a litmus test and it is a solid red flag indicator. The only wrong answer is no, but if you say yes or any other variation you get a pass. To genuinely believe that we are the only intelligent life forms in this universe indicates dangerous levels of self-importance along with a clear insecurity or fear of the unknown. Lastly, it just tells me that you lack vision, creativity or any basic critical thinking skill. The same applies for the paranormal, of spirits and other realms. This planet is far too old and far too big to believe that we are all there is to offer... For people who say they don't believe what they can't see I simply remind them of the history of germ theory (which we hear in midnight mass!) Doctors were literally thrown into insane asylums because they told people to wash their hands to get rid of the little bugs on their hands called bacteria! I'm sure if you went back in time and tried to explain commercial airplanes or smart phones or vaccines to someone, they would think you were insane, and yet here we are with all of those things and so much more. We literally have human beings floating in space RIGHT NOW! Imagine if everyone in the world decided not to dream or imagine or invent a new way of doing things because they had never seen it be done before... if they all agreed that if it does not exist now, it will never exist? In conclusion, the absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence, which means everything is on the table as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk!
Lailah Johnson
2025-09-19 02:57:44 +0000 UTC
Yes, Matheson killed Sara. It’s easy to kiss because the flashback is confusing, but in one of the first (maybe the first—I’d have to go back to see) flashbacks shown where Sara appears to child Will, they’re watching Matheson together in the distance as Matheson cuts open a skull to reveal a brain. You can’t see who is on the receiving end, but it’s heavily implied it’s Sara—which is why she was desperately reaching out to child Will.
Amanda Grace
2025-09-19 02:55:40 +0000 UTC
Frank, the show got cancelled because of the budget!! This show was sooo expensive because they had to travel with entire casts and crew to 8+ countries! It's so funny you said that during the opening. Season 2 ended and then it was announced that it was cancelled and the fandom exploded. I was there. It was CRAZY!!! But they managed to finesse a special finale of sorts that was the perfect end to the series.