the last man on earth season 2 rewatch > “Is There Anybody Out There?”
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The Last Man On Earth (1×09) – The Do-Over
#Peak Phil Miller Awfulness?#Gosh season 1 was such a different beast#This might also have been the point where I stopped reading comments on AV Club reviews of the show#I mean most people were firmly on Team Phil Sucks but there were SOME who were Team Calling Erica And Gail sluts#And/or Team Calling Melissa a Bitch#And acting like Phil’s actions were nothing compared to Erica and Gail both…liking sex?#The logic here is confusing because Phil can’t even claim to want what Carol wants (and goes her own fairly screwy way of having/keeping)#He LITERALLY just wants to have sex with Melissa#And then Gail and Erica#Anyway#I might have commented some Strong Words at one of those people and then departed maybe
Season One is so WEIRD? Like it’s honest-to-god like someone saw that “looks like me and you are the last two people on earth, m’lady!” tumblr post and decided to make a series out of it? I still don’t know if the writers wanted us to have sympathy for Phil back then or not, but I sometimes wonder if they looked at the reactions you described and figured ‘okay, something’s gone wrong here, let’s redeem Phil best we can and change things up a bit’. Or I kind of hope they did maybe?
Some random sad little details I noticed whilst screencapping TLMOE series 2:
Phil let Mike sleep in his bed as soon as he started getting sick (presumably Carol did too, although she doesn’t actually seem to sleep with her husband half the time.)
Gordon actually had a family pre-virus, although granted he looks a little photoshopped in there
Phil has that family picture that we saw in the pilot and a few other times in a frame by his bed (it’s there on the left, I promise)
Mike has a framed one on the spaceship too (below the map, can you see it?) which might well have been the thing he was looking at when he glanced around the interior one last time before attempting suicide, which is what this screenshot is of, ouch
Pat appears to have been a tennis champion pre-virus, which serves to make the hazmat suit tennis scene really sad in addition to surreally funny
Actually, what I will say is, to me, I can’t imagine a better, more
emotionally satisfying ending than what we did. I’m not saying that
everybody will find it emotionally satisfying. [Jason]’s one of my best friends, like a brother, so watching this is a very emotional thing for me and also the end of this really wonderful period I got to work with
him. So to bring him back after doing that, we want to be true to the
viewers and not jerk them around. We would only do something like that
if there was a really good reason for it.
Phil Miller from The Last Man on Earth. I’ve never watched the show but my sister LOVES it and she’s been having kind of a crappy week so I drew this! I guess its about a Bearded Will Forte and his friends, some of whom are balls with faces drawn on them. I’ve been off tumblr so much recently because I am HELLA busy, but normal service will resume soon-ish I guess!!
Oh my god, thank you <3 You’re the friggin’ best.