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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
So the ending is a little on the nose; pretty cliched horror movie stuff. The Pym confrontation was excellent but the rest seemed awfully telegraphed.
The politics didn't really power through; just Madeline's speech at the end really. And she's a post-modern feminist through and through so nothing she said was out of character or forced. It's that belief structure that made her lonely careerist when the end came so again; nothing white-knight about it. Just a certain character behaving/believing the way you would expect that character to behave.
Someone asked why Roderick would keep having children and I think that answer is pretty simple - he never TRULY believed her. You could squint and get to pride creating the fall in that truly believed his excellence was what created everything that followed.
All told, I'll go 8, 8.5. Really good show that mostly landed the plane but seemed to lose the creativity that drove the rest of the series.
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I think I gave it a 7.5, so close enough.
You make a good point about Madeline. I guess it makes sense, maybe it just felt that way because she didn't actually get political until that final episode, but I understand your point about it still being true to her character.
That didn't bother me as much as that god awful Trump reference, and Hamil breaking character.
Also, Verna lecturing humanity about how we have the power/money to end all suffering but you filthy humans are greedy ("capitalism is bad").