If you enjoyed Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and/or high-concept sci-fi, just watch it. Since others have already put the Stalin line into context, I’ll add another plot point that clowns hard on Carol’s USian individualism:
Episode 3
Carol tries to goes grocery shopping in this episode, only to find her local Sprouts (bougie Whole Foods-style store) completely empty. So she calls up the plurbs to complain, to which they helpfully offer to bring her anything she needs. She then starts on a rant about how she’s “a very iNdEpEnDenT person” and doesn’t want anyone “waiting on her,” and asks if they can restock the grocery store “by Friday, I’m thinking?” Which is then immediately followed by dozens of plurbs showing up with trailers full of food, and working in unison to stock the grocery store so Carol can “be independent.”
It’s a very obvious commentary on the modern person’s concept of independence. It’s also fucking hilarious, as soon as she was talking about them stocking it “by Friday” I knew we were about to see a montage of Plurbs swarming and finishing that shit now.
Got specific instructions on how to bag her trash and despite having absolutely no other responsibilities in her life she still consciously chooses not to follow the instructions :::
it felt very much like interactions with average US Americans in my experience.
If you enjoyed Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and/or high-concept sci-fi, just watch it. Since others have already put the Stalin line into context, I’ll add another plot point that clowns hard on Carol’s USian individualism:
Episode 3
Carol tries to goes grocery shopping in this episode, only to find her local Sprouts (bougie Whole Foods-style store) completely empty. So she calls up the plurbs to complain, to which they helpfully offer to bring her anything she needs. She then starts on a rant about how she’s “a very iNdEpEnDenT person” and doesn’t want anyone “waiting on her,” and asks if they can restock the grocery store “by Friday, I’m thinking?” Which is then immediately followed by dozens of plurbs showing up with trailers full of food, and working in unison to stock the grocery store so Carol can “be independent.”
It’s a very obvious commentary on the modern person’s concept of independence. It’s also fucking hilarious, as soon as she was talking about them stocking it “by Friday” I knew we were about to see a montage of Plurbs swarming and finishing that shit now.
When she
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Got specific instructions on how to bag her trash and despite having absolutely no other responsibilities in her life she still consciously chooses not to follow the instructions :::
it felt very much like interactions with average US Americans in my experience.
I loved this part so much hahaha