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with my weekly recap breakdown review of the latest episode of fx why the last man today
we're breaking down episode six which was titled weird al is dead an episode in which we see our
characters making some really tough decisions and we're breaking it all down here in the spoiler
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it's called weird out as dead and i think this is a very weird episode and very kind of heavy-handed
in its narrative and we'll get into my thoughts in a little bit but just let me know how you all
felt about the six episode your pros your cons of course your thoughts and theories for the weeks
ahead but let's check in where are you at mentally with the show i know we're past the halfway point
where six episodes in we got four left but how are you all feeling six episodes in and do you have
promise do you have disappointment headed your way leading up to the finale let's let me know where
you are the wrap this show so far let's talk about in the comments so before i recap and break it all
down just to give you my thoughts on the episode just briefly i wasn't a fan i think this is easily
in my opinion the worst episode of the show so far and i felt like it was extremely and i know a lot
of people have kind of checking out on this show just because they feel like it's it has an agenda
you know it's pro women and you know they can have their feelings about that but i will say
i feel like this episode out of the previous five was the most heavy-handed in kind of touching on
that narrative which i assumed that was going to be the case at some point that there were going
to be a group of women that feel like hey the world's better without men um you know the world's
thriving around men we don't need men you know all this stuff i knew that was going to happen
but i just wish that this was the episode that it really happened and i imagine we'll get more
in the future but i just wanted to be a little bit more balanced in that narrative and not to be so
heavy-handed in the republicans versus democrats feminists versus you know i just feel like this
episode was just so focused on that narrative and really didn't flesh out anything else and i don't
feel like the characters have really grown from episode one so there are some some issues i'm
having with the show as a whole but this episode really kind of reared his ugly head in regards to
just narratively speaking it was so forced in a lot of moments i'll get into those moments here
but i just wasn't a fan of this episode but that's just my thoughts we'll get into it more in depth
here but let me know how you all felt about it positively negatively let's talk about it but
let's break it all down as we open up with the women that have been tasked to look for york and
look for 355 by president brown as at this point we see that york 355 and allison have come across
this group of women who seem to be very uh you know caring and and kind of in tune with their uh
you know positive emotions as they're celebrating not celebrating but they're honoring the people
that have died as they're singing i love radiohead by the way so i love that psalm karma police but
they're singing the song and and we see yorick and 355 they seem to as the weeks have gone on they've
gotten closer there's a little bit more connection there just besides you know when they first met it
was just you're the mission i have to get you here but now she's starting to open up more
and she's opening up at that moment like yeah this is a good pit stop but unfortunately that's cut
pretty shortly because she notices that the women that have been said to look for her have been
close to finding them out so she's just like we should have never went here we got to take him out
as she kind of talks about he's like are you going to kill them i and she says to him i never kill
people which i guess this that's just her mindset right that she doesn't see it as killing people
is part of the mission right so we get that narrative there and again i thought that this show
i thought that at this point they were going to finally be on the same page but unfortunately
this scene and the scene that happened at the end they couldn't be on the same page right based on
everything that's happened so far but let's get to in the same scene she finally lets the truth
out which i still don't know why 355 destroyed the phone to let president brown know what she's like
i don't understand that narrative so far and we didn't i thought at first as i mentioned last week
she did that because she was going to maybe do her little side mission to find that fran
character the leader of her underground secret operative corp thing but i still don't know why
she did that let me know where you all are at with that thought process of let me end communication
divert this mission to a certain extent and not let the president know i don't know where her
mindset's at but she tells them that she knows the truth and this is where allison's kind of planting
that bug into york said like hey you can't trust her which plays into the decision that he makes
later on but let's get into some of the things i really didn't enjoy about the episode which are
these characters here which is kim and oliver it's not in the show i i think the show is purposely
you're not supposed to like the characters this and regardless of how you feel about you know
political you know sides of things i think you're not supposed to they're supposed to
be the quote-unquote kind of i don't say bad people but they're they're meant to
make conflict in the show right but as as far as like my dislike of the characters i don't like the
actors playing the character i don't think they're really giving me a lot in their roles but putting
that aside we see them slowly but surely they're getting on the same page there obviously both of
them do not like president brown they want to get her out of the position of presidency they
they talk about how she's using her her loss as leverage with the other people and getting
them on her side and they're just you know they're making up their diverting a plan of how to get her
out of position which will probably happen sooner rather than later there's going to be a civil war
obviously amongst those women in a politics side of the show but going back to another character
that i am this show has really went down that path in regards to anti-men with this roxanne
character which i assumed that was going to be who she was in the show she hate men she's going to
probably kill any man that she comes across which is gonna make what this episode did show is hero
and and and how she believes in roxanne it's gonna be a big thing and it's gonna be obviously
yorick hiro who's she's gonna pick that's what the show's leading to at least that's what i think but
nonetheless we see how she's kind of opening up about your past experiences with men and we
have some women sharing how they felt about man how they've been abused by man and this is where
norah's character and her daughter mackenzie kind of get into the conversation and noah
doesn't want her to be a part of this because she feels like she's too young but roxanne's like nope
she's gonna hear it she's gonna listen it tell us about your experiences with your uncle and your
grandfather when you go to thanksgiving how she she mentions how they talk about how she's grown
and this and the other how men look at women and stuff like that and i get all that narrative but
it's just like it wasn't balanced and if i'm being honest it just wasn't well written it just wasn't
like thrilling it wasn't compelling it wasn't and it didn't have a lot of depth to it when they were
having those conversations it's just my personal opinion i thought the writing was flat in those
moments which brings us into nora really having this kind of heart-to-heart conversation after
roxanne doesn't allow these other group of women that are starving that has a kid with them she
pushes them away so we're showing you again that she's very selective she mentions to noir that she
used to be a detective she has good intuition you know she takes off a shirt she's lost her
boobs she's she's very anti-men she says it's so much in this so in this in this particular scene
where she's just like we're thriving we don't need men and all this stuff she's we're seeing nora
we're seeing heroes start to kind of feed into her narrative and kind of feed into like the world is
a better place without man which again i knew the show was going to go that route but i just felt
like it was just so heavy-handed and just wasn't woven into the narrative properly in my opinion it
was just really kind of forced down the audience's throat in my personal opinion in this episode
especially about roxanne in this episode but let's go back into a really again this this episode was
called weird out it was a lot of like weird like put together scenes and this is one of them as
the women are bathing all of them are comfortable around each other obviously but we cut to hero and
the women again they're kind of recruiting her into their little you know cult if you want to
call it that or to their their group or whatnot but they feel like she isn't being herself and
they again they're really kind of trying to get her involved more into this group and again i
think that that's what the angle of the show is going to be doing hero's going to end up
being like a really pivotal person in this whole roxanne group and she's going to have to decide do
you want to stay with roxanne or do you want to go back to your mom and york that's going to probably
be how it plays out but again even in that scene it was just weirdly put together the performances
by those other women as again you know they're fully nude at this point once you get no fx
isn't you know cable television i was very surprised by okay fx you're you're really going
mma right but i just felt like the scene just was again a flat scene in my opinion let me know how
you all felt but i felt like emotionless i don't know how hero was able to feed into the stuff they
were giving her it was just kind of flat but let me know your thoughts on it but let's go back to
how i feel like the show just continues to kind of drop the emotional ball in regards to 355 and
yorick as we see them get into a fight of her not in the whole angle of like i don't need men the
world doesn't need men the world's a better place without men and she's like i'm fighting for you
this is an advantage for you when you're questioning me it's just like
it's forced it's forced drama it's a forced narrative it is a you know just it's not natural
to the narrative that the show just continuously keeps putting in especially in this episode
men are terrible they deserve to die we're a better world without them and it's just like
can we can we make the writing more compelling can we do a little bit better in that department but
moving on we see that kim offers to raise christine's baby which i don't know why this
plot is even relevant to the main story i don't know where they're going with that angle that
plot and that's kind of like one of the least interesting things about to me about this show
then we transition into the show just continue to get weirder and just really emotionless and
just very flat as we have this funeral scene play out we see the women are bathing this girl
she's throwing away her own her old name her old past her her you know just being controlled by men
they put her in the bath she's now coming i can't remember she named herself like an amazonian type
of name or like a greek type of name and she's now a new women woman and they're now you know they're
bonding and all that stuff and we see sam's like this is weird and we see heroes just like
she's so interested and again it's showing the hero is starting to believe more into roxanne's
narrative and believe more into her beliefs and believe that these women are better off you
know in the situation they're in and again i see that's going to be a wedge in their relationship
between sam and hiro which brings us back to brown learning about the location of her son as well as
355 and while she's learning that we see that oliver's in the room and we see president brown
trying to maneuver this situation not give too much away about this secret mission that she had
on the side and again we see that at this point allison and yorick have left 355 which was a
stupid decision i do not care for this allison character whatsoever which we cut to the team
that browner sent them out she you know 355 takes them out pretty easily and again i'm just like
i this is so boring this is it's dark as hell i can't even see anything that they're doing i just
thought that this episode was just so weird it was just a really bad put together episode but kind of
wrapping things up back to oliver and brown as she calls her a feminist and you know when when brown
calls kim crazy she's like oh that's funny you're calling a woman crazy and aren't you
just like again heavy-handed message here but at least the gloves are off at least we they're
done playing the bs game about being nice to each other we know that they're at each other's
throats now and the whole thing is who's going to be the president by the end of the show but
again wrapping this up this episode again was just not my favorite my least favorite of the
show so far and really kind of put a bad taste in my mouth with how they played everything out
but hiro finally reveals to roxanna she killed the guy that she had an affair with and roxanne
again kind of planned to her narrative you're okay he deserved to die he was a man and you're
you're in the perfect place and then again giving her more reasons to stay and more reasons to buy
into her belief and we end with nora watching the women beat up this one girl who was essentially
flirting with sam the whole episode and she just watches and walks away showing that she's even
starting to believe more into this whole system that that uh roxanne has built up so again ladies
and gentlemen i i've been championing this show up to this point five episodes prior to this episode
you know i'm thinking like okay the world building the characters are getting somewhere but i feel
like the characters really haven't gotten anywhere i feel like they're york has been kind of pretty
much forgotten about it he's pretty much the same character from episode one don't care for allison
355 is still like the most interesting character to me just like even her just terrible decisions
that she makes or not even really understanding her logical decisions she makes she's the most
interesting character i love diane lane like i said i think that she as president brown brings
some dynamic to the show but outside of that everyone else is just like so uninteresting
that heavy-handedness and the narrative in regards to men being dead and this is the best thing
that's happened to the world and just the roxannes of the show the olivers of the show the kims of
the show have really they just i know what the purpose of those characters are i just don't feel
like the show has really given them the most that they could to make them compelling complicated
characters of a certain thing they just feel like so stereotypical in my opinion and nothing nuance
in those characters in my opinion but hey just my thoughts let me know your thoughts again your pros
your cons your thoughts your theories for what you all hope to see i really hope this is the
last of this type of narrative and we get better episodes moving forward for the rest of the season
but i was not a fan of this episode but again let me know your thoughts and if you thought this was
a good episode of the bad episode and will you be back to watch more let's talk about in the
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