This is a cool show. I can’t help but hate Carol, and I can’t figure out if the show is trying to make me hate her or if she really is supposed to be some kind of antihero. It’s interesting that we have very little information about what the lives of the other individuals were like before the joining. Carol is very petit bourgeois coded, clearly your archetypical western chauvinist. She’s basically monolingual, a fantasy slop mogul, deeply uncurious, self centered, and stubborn. She assumes that everyone else who is unjoined is of the same mind set, and the only other character aligned with her appears to be even more antisocial then she is.
It’s hard to say what this show is really about. There was that throw away line in the second or third episode where Carol says she is the “second greatest mass murder next to Stalin” and you could read this so many ways. Yet the show makes it very clear that the world Carol wants to return to is one full of harm and violence. That her resistance to this situation actively kills people
Hopefully this doesn’t turn into a show that doesn’t know how it ends and keeps running on a treadmill for several sessions.
I love how Vince made a tv show based on the premise my friend Rhea is cool and talented and I’m doing this so she can shine.
There have been a lot of comments calling the Mauritanian dude aremoved, an understandable read to be sure. But I’m surprised I haven’t seen any comments reading it as Diabate being groomed by a super intelligence.
If a person orders someone without free will to have sex with them and the “someone” complies, the person being groomed is not the guy giving the orders.
We dont know how the hive works currently so its assumptions on assumptions either way. Its interesting that individualism is so ingrained that the leading assumption is that there is a true self being repressed by being joined rather than that a transformation occurred.
Even if a transformation occurred, they have been shown to not be able to refuse a request even at the risk of harm to bodies which constitute part of the hivemind. Their preference was clearly not to give Carol a nuke, but they would if asked.