# Last Man on Earth - season 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035 "2016-09-27T14:02:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/1 "2016-09-27T14:02:28Z")
So the season premiere was Sunday. I think the season’s off to a a great start. Sure, a few things made no sense whatsoever (why were those guys carrying guns if they weren’t going to shoot anyone? didn’t we already learn that gasoline was about to stop working? what about food?) but it more than made up for it in entertainment value and heart. (I love that both Jon Hamm and Will Ferrell have now shown up as guest stars only to die immediately.) ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/2 "2016-09-27T21:49:08Z")
I kind of wish they would have stuck with “the last man on Earth” idea a bit longer. Or maybe just have Carol there for a season and then add one more person. Of the whole cast the only one I like is Gail? The one who is sarcastic and a lush. I am looking forward to both ladies giving birth simultaneously … because you just know that’s how that ep. will go down. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/3 "2016-09-28T03:29:03Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > why were those guys carrying guns if they weren’t going to shoot anyone? Clearly the one guy is insanely paranoid, so scouting and going in armed is not terribly surprising for him, and the other guys were probably too scared to gainsay him. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/4 "2016-09-28T03:58:31Z")
The show is just a retooling of Gilligan’s Island. That’s not an insult. One of my favorite shows. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/5 "2016-09-28T15:58:25Z")
Jon Hamm seems to be making a mini-career of guest and cameo appearances in sitcoms, but this one definitely tops them all. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/6 "2016-09-28T17:31:26Z")
I liked how they couldn’t take time to take a picture of him (what, no more Polaroid cameras around?), so they had a sketch done in colored pencils. I wonder which one is the artist? (besides the blue jean artist) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/7 "2016-09-28T18:22:57Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I liked how they couldn’t take time to take a picture of him (what, no more Polaroid cameras around?), so they had a sketch done in colored pencils. I wonder which one is the artist? (besides the blue jean artist) I assume it was Carol who, of course, drew all the pictures in the Masturbatorium. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/8 "2016-09-28T19:54:12Z")
I liked that January Jones’ character shot the one of the invaders played by Jon Hamm. (Jon Hamm and January Jones played a married couple in Mad Men.) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/9 "2016-09-28T23:10:28Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I liked how they couldn’t take time to take a picture of him (what, no more Polaroid cameras around?), so they had a sketch done in colored pencils. I thought the sketch looked more like Fred Armisen than Jon Hamm. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/10 "2016-09-30T02:10:58Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I liked that January Jones’ character shot the one of the invaders played by Jon Hamm. (Jon Hamm and January Jones played a married couple in Mad Men.) Yeah, what other reason could they have had for using Jon Hamm. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/11 "2016-10-03T18:27:12Z")
Another very entertaining episode. Carol breathlessly reporting on Tandy’s fight with Pat was classic, and I love seeing Lewis’s reactions to Tandy, compared with everyone else’s. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/12 "2016-10-18T03:23:08Z")
So goodbye Malibu; I wonder where the gang will end up next. Also did anyone else think it was weird that they dragged Cher’s body back to there mansion to bury her with the others instead of just burying her in her own yard? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/13 "2016-10-18T05:33:02Z")
That was a weird placement for a dugout - the forward visibility was sharply limited by those hedges. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/14 "2016-10-25T00:31:40Z")
So any guesses as to who or what’s behind the fully light up hotel (or office building?) the gang found? If it’s not Pat it would have to be another survivor, right? Someone has to be manning the generator; unless of course it has solar panels & has just been running on auto-pilot all these years. I’m starting to sense a possible homage to There Will Come Soft Rains. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/15 "2016-10-25T00:52:52Z")
I laughed when Gail’s self-driving car (a BMW, I think) took off right after she got out of it. And I thought the building they found at the end was a hospital, but have no particular reason to think so. I will be curious to see how it’s being powered. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/16 "2016-10-25T01:04:05Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > And I thought the building they found at the end was a hospital, but have no particular reason to think so. I will be curious to see how it’s being powered. Judging from some of the previews, it struck me as possibly a dot-com building, i.e. a self-sustaining uberbuilding-of-the-future designed for hipster programmers and destined for bankruptcy. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/17 "2016-11-17T04:02:15Z")
I wonder if Melissa was always this crazy or if the apocalypse really drove her off the deep end. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/18 "2016-11-17T13:03:59Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > I wonder if Melissa was always this crazy or if the apocalypse really drove her off the deep end. She’s become eccentric, but she doesn’t yet strike me as nearly as much a danger to herself or the group as Tandy. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/19 "2016-12-14T04:00:35Z")
OMG! :eek: Did Gail really just kill herself? The show goes on it’s winter hiatus now so we won’t find out for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/20 "2016-12-14T05:54:40Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > OMG! :eek: Did Gail really just kill herself? The show goes on it’s winter hiatus now so we won’t find out for awhile. Couldn’t she see the building’s facade windows through the gap? I wondered why she didn’t try shooting them out. Of course, with all that shooting in a confined space, she’s permanently deaf by now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035.md?page=2)