![]() ![]() So the question is: Which of season three’s references will become the Dan Flashes, the “ I don’t even want to be around anymore,” the Coffin Flop of the summer of 2023? Only time, and perhaps another round of sloppy steaks, will tell. The second season of Tim Robinson’s absurdist sketch series launched many memes in the summer of 2021. ![]() I Think You Should Leave, season 3 (Netflix, May 30) But with a giant question mark looming over the rest of the year, the weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day promise what may be TV’s last gasp of normalcy for quite some time. The notion of “summer TV” has skewed considerably, becoming a fairly meaningless designation in the “all the TV, all the time” streaming era. That’s all the more reason to appreciate what the summer season - comprising mainly series that were in the can pre-strike - has to offer. With the WGA strike likely extending into the summer and delaying more in-production series every day, close observers of the TV calendar (or anyone who remembers the 2007 writers’ strike) are already predicting a content slowdown in the latter half of 2023. Read my review of Episode 1 of Dead City here.Photo-Illustration: Vulture FX, HBO, Hulu, Netflix The Season 2 finale of FROM aired last night also. What did you think? Let me know on Twitter or Facebook. I’m not sure it’s at all necessary, but hey, that was the best “knock knock” joke I’ve ever heard. It’s lightyears better than Fear The Walking Dead and feels like a decent, if not great, season of the main show. Ultimately, if this show ends up just being “Hey let’s watch Negan be a badass and say funny stuff” I can be onboard with that. It can’t be efficient, especially when you can just smear zombie guts on yourself and sneak right past, though nobody ever remembers to do that anymore. Like half a dozen other villains before him, this appears to be the bizarre strategy utilized to keep people out. In the preview for next week’s episode we see his fortress, surrounded by walkers. “Don’t worry, you’re safe now,” he tells his new prisoner with a wicked grin, implying about the exact opposite of that. We only get a small glimpse of the Croat (Van Gogh, the New Yorkers call him) this episode, once again. Maggie acts like losing Glenn was somehow unique. I want her to get over it and move on because enough is enough, at least in terms of how much I’m willing to put up with. I guess I’m just tired of Maggie at this point. Negan sees the zipline and says “Heh, cool.” Maggie barely makes it across and refuses Negan’s help-despite literally being on a mission that she asked him to come on. Negan is doing all the heavy lifting while she mopes around and, well, mopes. ![]() I’m also not sure I care much for Maggie so far. This man just killed Esther, and Glenn did much the same thing before Negan killed him in a similarly horrific fashion. Maggie sees the whole thing, and she stares at Negan with a look of both horror and, I think, new understanding. “Now I don’t know if any of you have checked tonight’s forecast, but if I see even one mole hair on one of your ugly-ass faces, it won’t just be a rainstorm, hell it won’t be a thunder storm, it’ll be a hurricane!” He tosses the man over the ledge as the people below shout in dismay. He warns them that if he sees them again they can expect more than just rain. Then he guts him and blood and entrails pour out. ![]() He slashes the guy’s throat, and blood sprays down on the stunned goons. “Well you butter get out your umbrellas because it’s about to god$#!n rain!” Then he says, “Now where the hell was I? Oh, right.” As they all look on, shocked, he mocks the one without a helmet, calling him a neckbeard, laughing at his rat tail hairdo. “Knock knock!” he shouts, smashing the guy’s head through a window. ![]()
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