Some vague theories about where TLMOE may be going (please someone talk about this show with me)
- I think half of Mike’s story in the promo clip actually is true and he might well have actually run into some scientists and ended up experimented on. He also has a fancy science-y van with him so where did he get that from?
- In the episode after next “a thermal heat detector (the one in the van I guess) reveals a potential sign of life” so is this a whole lotta people? But “Tandy doesn’t want the group to split up to go investigate” and there must be a good reason for that because why wouldn’t you investigate? Because he’s learned from Mike that these people have ill intent?
- The press release for 4×17 is really cagey but
“morbid discoveries” definitely doesn’t point to anything good- Is “what they actually find” a bigger group of people, scientists, doctors, all the people they actually need to restart the world properly, but they’re ruthless Mike-experimenters-upon?
I do wonder – you’re gonna have to bear with me here I’m on a roll – if the season finale (possibly the series finale) might come down to “what would you rather have, a world that’s outwardly ideal but hiding hidden rot, or a world filled with flawed, gross and messy people who happen to be your family?” And that’s possibly my favourite trope ever (just look at my love for GOTG 2!) so…
I don’t know. I know TLMOE is a comedy first and foremost (and a gleefully, relentlessly, surprisingly non-offensively lowbrow one) and I suspect if I was foolish enough to post this on Reddit I’d be bombarded with a hundred Lol It’s Not That Deep comments, but it… sometimes is that deep, right? I mean, this is a comedy built on a million bodybags. Anyway, I suppose I’ll wait it out. (Please someone talk about this show with me)
my friend pointed out that mike’s story is disconcertingly detailed to the point there’s no way he isn’t telling the truth.
I know right?! And it would be just like the TLMOE writers to pull that sort of double-rug-pull