the last man on earth

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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)

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Last Man on Earth: Mike returns with a shocking secret about survivors

This has me GNAWING MY NAILS OFF in anticipation of the next episode

Obviously that last bit of the story isn’t true but is the rest of it??? If they were heading for an endgame that’s a really good one

 

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The press release for the TLMOE season finale is out and I can’t even start to guess what’s going on, beyond “I bet they finally run into a whole bunch of other survivors”. If it really is the last ever episode I think I’d be okay with it, as long as it doesn’t end on a cliffhanger or anything. I mean, everybody is in a categorically better place than they were at the beginning, the Mike Question has been answered, and there’s a bit of hope for humankind continuing. But…I do still hope there’s another season. Just one more
maybe?

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Some of TLMOE’s plot this season has been telegraphed from a mile away – it’s painfully obvious that Erica will ask Mike, rather than Todd, to father her and Gail’s new child and Todd will explode into jealousy. But the rest of it I can’t work out, even by reading the press releases, which are usually pretty spoilery but not this time around.

If I had to guess what happens next, it would be “Todd fucks something up really really badly in the season finale or penultimate episode” because he’s been gradually getting more unsympathetic all season. :/

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Last Man on Earth: Breaking Down Fred Armisen’s Guest Role

tlmoedaily:

The writer’s room walkthrough for 4×10-4×12! Here’s some highlights:

On Melissa and Jasper:

Jasper likes Melissa because she’s always the most truthful with him.
She seems to be the only one who doesn’t want anything from Jasper or
care what he thinks of her. The rest of the group treats Jasper like a
child, which he is, but he was on his own for a few years before he met
the group, and only Melissa seems to recognize that he’s grown up faster
and is more mature than the others give him credit for.

On killing off Karl:

Before Fred was signed on, we had this plan for a prisoner to
find the gang, be torn about whether to kill them or not, eventually
find the Rubik’s Cube and then blow up. However, once we got Fred, we
all deeply regretted this plan because he was such a hilarious, natural
addition to the group.

On Melissa’s personality:

Melissa is known to be brutally honest. She cuts through the
bullshit and the sugarcoating and she says what she feels. Nobody wants
to be a murderer, not even her. She killed a guy (Jon Hamm) and it
almost ruined her – but from her perspective, this is a different
world.

On Tandy:

He’s a more mature version of the same ole dipshit. Kinda like how McDonalds offers salads now. 

On Melissa’s bodily autonomy:

But we got to a point with the Todd/Melissa storyline where a baby was
going to happen, and we felt it was super important to have a woman in
this new world absolutely refuse to get pregnant.

 

I love these interviews and I’m really glad how much they seem to have thought through the characters and what’s important. Also, reading about the stuff that they decided against is always a blast

 

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