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Just binged this whole show over a couple weeks, what a ride. It was really impressive to me how they were able to shift genres so wildly and so often without ever devolving into pure parody or just, ironic detachment or whatever. Like, there were moments where I wondered what the hell they could be planning overall, but it never lost its commitment to the moment and that's really important with how absurd it gets. And after completing it I really think it somehow all did work weirdly well as a whole story.
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I think the last season really leaned into the idea that everyone you encounter is stuck in their own stupid little movie. Dory's desire to be the main character of her own story had disastrous consequences, but we're shown all these other possible terrible paths and it feels like Dory didn't really start the fire you know? So, Aspen is some weird little Antichrist kid, obviously... he's "the first they made," maybe referring to him being an artificial creation for sale by corporations? Meanwhile Chantal is buying into Terminator + Q Anon, the Jesper society has to get the gang back together, the Duchess's mom casually mentions that their home town is commonly believed to be a portal to Hell... Dory is pretty bad in a lot of ways, but I think from the first season the show was really committing to the idea that she wasn't actually the primary cause of all the bad poo poo. Her story just happened to keep getting kind of hijacked (or at least used) by awful white people in ways that turned out horribly. Like, yes, she gave out the pills that caused the zombie apocalypse... but Tunnel had the lab full of the tools to create it, it was managed with complete negligence, and they literally pointed out that horrible biological weapons could easily be created from what he gathered there. So I guess I view Aspen's subplot as, maybe he was another potential Antichrist, but there were many paths leading to this result.
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