Will is nominated!
It’s official! For the second year in a row, Will Forte is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series! Congrats Will!
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the last man on earth
what is the last man on earth about? -onewordtest1
Essentially,
Season 1: What if the last man on earth was a sexist dick trapped with a woman he didn’t like?
Season 2: What if everyone turned out to have hidden depths, people started dying horribly, big questions about grief were asked, and everything hurt forever?
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?
It’s up against Supernatural so it’s probably not going to win, but still
Gosh darn it I’ve done a lot of talking about LMOE on here the past few…months? Weeks? Its tag on this blog is like 12 pages long, stuff I’ve loved for years doesn’t even have that much. (You can see me desperately trying not to fall in love with it over the course of those 12 pages, it’s pretty funny.) But I was on a TV forum the other week and the general consensus about LMOE seems to be – as deliberately immature and goofy as it is, it’s very good at portraying grief, at portraying even the selfish and problematic parts of it in a helpful/sympathetic way in fact.
The arc at the end of Series 2 – the one where Mike begs his brother to leave him so he won’t have to watch him die, y’know, that traditional sitcom fare – hit me rather hard. Because I remember (I remember quite clearly in fact) when my grandfather went to hospital for what turned out to be his final visit, I couldn’t go with the rest of my family to see him. Because I had a cold, a bad one, and that’s a pretty bad thing to bring into a hospital y’know? A virus at the wrong time. Even if this one wasn’t likely to kill off all humanity. So the rest of my family went, and I gather it wasn’t exactly fun for them – my mum’s words of “he wasn’t the same bloke” still ring in my ears even though this all took place years ago – that’s really the saddest thing, the saddest thing about death in general-
Anyway, I found the series 2 finale of Last Man On Earth oddly cathartic as well as deeply sad. I think it probably tapped into something I didn’t know was there, but it’s recently shaped a lot of my thoughts about death, and how we choose to accept it and why, and the lengths we all go to (if we’re lucky in that respect) to protect our loved ones from the worst parts of grief. Definitely shaped all that for the better I think, too.