Season 1 Episode 2: Pirate Lady
Air Date: November 7, 2025
Synopsis: The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
Directed by: Vince Gilligan
Written by: Vince Gilligan
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First ten minutes were without dialogue and it was awesome. It’s interesting how hivemind can communicate, maybe humans communicate with others nearby by pheromones, and by some form of radio waves aided by technology on long distances.
Curious how accurately can hivemind emulate individual people. Maybe absolute individuality is lost, but hivemind knows how to behave as old person would have. However this is probably disproven by kid answering Carol’s questions.
Are the pod people even capable of consent? I thought that from the moment Zosia flew to Carol, but it really became a theme of the episode.
I don’t just mean in regard to sex, but to anything. Carol would never have known “Raban” existed had it not been for all this.
Carol really seems like the only rational person here.
Didn’t care for the direction this episode took. I enjoyed episode one, but ep two seemed to sacrifice the reality of the situation for quirky humor.
Will keep watching for a few more episodes to see if it picks back up or continues the downhill trajectory.
This episode reminded me of the Will Forte show, “The Last Man on Earth”. Now that was a comedy, but I don’t see the humor from this episode as a bad thing.
The guy from Spain (?) who requested Air Force One is exactly the kind of guy I wanted to see. The world is his now, he can do anything he wants. Like Carol he doesn’t have any friends or family to keep him grounded, but he does have the entire world asking him what he wants. So what does he want? To enjoy life! Flying around on a one of kind aircraft, a harem of women, fancy meals, etc. He is the opposite of Carol.
Carol on the other hand is looking at the reality of the situation. The line about not asking a drug dealer how their heroin high is was perfect. Asking the young boy about how he would examine a patient, perfect. Carol is viewed as unhinged, but she’s absolutely right. I think if she could have kept herself relaxed the mother of that child would have been able to see that, eventually.
And of course to top all this off, Carol is in the right, right?
The guy from Spain (?) who requested Air Force One is exactly the kind of guy I wanted to see. The world is his now, he can do anything he wants. Like Carol he doesn’t have any friends or family to keep him grounded, but he does have the entire world asking him what he wants. So what does he want? To enjoy life! Flying around on a one of kind aircraft, a harem of women, fancy meals, etc. He is the opposite of Carol.
This is an interesting point. Wouldn’t Carol have family members they could bring out to try and keep her grounded? Parents? Siblings? Closer friends?
Not if she’s been an ostracized alcoholic novelist for years!
I can only assume she doesn’t. The only person she had was her partner/publicist who died (I’m guessing not wife since it seemed like she was keeping her relationship a secret in order to sell more books.)
When “they” send Pirate Lady they picked someone who they thought Carol could relate to or would be at ease with. Since they didn’t pick parents, siblings or other friends they must not exist, or must not be someone Carol would want to talk with.
Although if Carol is living in Albuquerque you would think she would have one other, at least somewhat, of a friend. An editor or someone she works with even a little bit that she would be on good terms with. Or even a friend from when she was younger. Almost anyone would be better than a complete stranger, I would assume.
I can only assume she doesn’t. The only person she had was her partner/publicist who died (I’m guessing not wife since it seemed like she was keeping her relationship a secret in order to sell more books.)
That’s weird to me. I guess this is a criticism I have of a lot of shows I’ve watched. The leads appear to have non-existent families that should appear at some point. I even noticed it in For All Mankind, where the Baldwin and Stevens families parents didn’t seem to exist despite the fact they were young enough to exist in the 70s and 80s, and not one of them had any siblings.
In many shows it doesn’t matter, and you don’t need to see relatives like that - but it’s sometimes more stark.
And of course to top all this off, Carol is in the right, right?
The freedom for destruction and domination is critical to anyone’s enjoyment of life, right?
It was half Last Man on Earth and half the Futurama movie “Beast With A Billion Backs”.
Love the Tentacle!
I think people wouldn’t be so duh/accepting of the situation. The only one who felt honest to me was the woman with the kid, because she doesn’t want to lose her child, so she’s in denial. Out of six people there should have been more people freaking out than Carol.
And I think Carol would probably have shown more relief/started crying when she initially met the others at the airport. And the idiot with Air Force One was a caricature, and not a human being. If his part had been written as more of an average sleazeball instead of a trope, I would have found it more believable. I won’t be surprised if we find out the French lothario persona is all an act and he’s some dude from Jersey.
Also, why is Carol still driving the piece of crap truck when she could have any car she wanted?
So at a high level I agree. I think there should have been more people absolutely freaking out and causing “glitches” with “us”. However I think everyone else we met, having family, is what causes most people to be understanding. The mother accepting her child as her child is part of that.
I think the Air Force One guy isn’t a caricature. I think he’s someone who is down on his luck, someone who society as a whole rejected. Now he’s on top. I genuinely do wonder if the harem he’s assembled is genuine or if they have a more devious plan. If he’s a caricature he’s still a reasonable extrapolation of someone who could exist.
We know they share emotional pain, do they share joy? If one of them as sex, do they all enjoy it. Being an entity of the entire world, one of them certainly would (statistically or otherwise) be exited to have sex with him. We’re only two episodes in and as a hive they’re focused on cleaning up the world, but realistically there should be a section of society constantly banging each other. They’re a virus, sorta, so the idea of replication must be a core part of their being.
But also I’m off track. The original count of 11 unique minds had since expanded to 12. That’s someone we, the audience, is going to meet. That’s someone who, like Carol, is rejecting the world. I expect we meet that character soon.
Also she drives a shit car because she rejects the world she is in. She hasn’t yet or rejects the Air Force One lifestyle.
I had the same feeling, the quick removal of the threat from Episode 1 was kinda jarring and I didn’t really care for any of the other people who were not infected.
Good so far, not really on the same level as the breaking bad shows though. I think once scifi comes into things you really have to sell it for it to not seem ridiculous, which hasn’t happened to me so far. Still slightly confused on what the show is trying to say too… I did miss new Mexico though, looks beautiful as ever
Woooooosh
