# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/61 "2017-03-22T01:43:39Z")
> [@Fair\_Rarity](#): > > It looked like someone in a gillie suit to me. Reminded me of the alleged Big Foot pictures. Looked like Yoda to me. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/62 "2017-03-22T02:07:48Z")
I loved how Gail immediately saw through Tandy’s nonsense about Lewis. Melissa’s backstory was a nice tough too. She had a pretty nice & normal life; then civilization collapsed & she went off her meds. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/63 "2017-03-22T02:17:32Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Looked like Yoda to me. To me, also. There’s an oversized Yoda costume (or a normal-sized one with misleading perspective) stuck in the trees, it looks like. As for Melissa, the guys should be able to easily search her medicine cabinets for pill bottles and find out what drug she was taking, then raid any number of abandoned pharmacies for an extended supply. It may turn out that the particular drug has reached its maximum shelf-life and without new manufacturing, she’ll have to do without, but they’re glossing over the “stale gasoline” issue so this may not matter. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/64 "2017-03-28T00:42:46Z")
Well it doesn’t look like it’s Pamela in the mask. Poor kid; at this point s/he’s probably so screwed up Melissa’s going to look well balanced. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/65 "2017-03-28T18:28:51Z")
The best part of this episode was Tandy’s deductions about the character of the person in the cabin based on the games they played. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/66 "2017-04-26T03:34:28Z")
Still no sign of Pamela, but it was nice to see Melissa be the one to get Jasper to open up. I also liked how even Gail (as much as she could) wend along with the weird super holiday picnic. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/67 "2017-05-08T18:38:57Z")
Well, the season ended at an interesting point. I suppose they were too comfortable in that building to allow for any really interesting stories. I think I’ve stopped looking at this as a comedy. The bizarre behavior (especially Tandy) is better seen as individual coping mechanisms, bordering on mental illness. Melissa’s issues of course were preexisting. When she’s properly medicated, she’s one of the sanest of the group. I have to wonder if they can find a regular supply of her medication on the Mexican coast. I’m glad to see that Tandy’s fake eyebrows are gone. That was starting to annoy me. Pamela has finally shown up, fortunately for them. They made an interesting decision for the season ending “cliffhanger”. Typically it would have ended with the sound of the gunshot, letting us all think that Patrick had fired, leaving us to wait for the new season to learn of the aftermath. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/68 "2017-05-08T19:02:07Z")
Um, david, are you a week ahead? Or am I a week behind? ---
**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:** [May 8, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/69 "2017-05-08T19:04:08Z")
You may be behind; yesterday (May 7), Fox broadcast the 17th and 18th episodes, which ended the third season of the show. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/70 "2017-05-08T19:08:57Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Um, david, are you a week ahead? Or am I a week behind? You’re a week behind, that was the Sunday 5-7-2017 show he descibed. A good and unexpected finish to the season, but I would think many or most Nuclear Power Plants would have been shutdown as the disease was killing people. Some radiation leaks and even fires are clearly possible but unless I am wildly wrong, most of the plants failing catastrophically seems fantastical. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/71 "2017-05-08T19:09:17Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Um, david, are you a week ahead? Or am I a week behind? > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > You may be behind; yesterday (May 7), Fox broadcast the 17th and 18th episodes, which ended the third season of the show. Yes. \*\*Munch \*\* is a week behind. They were shown last night and I watched them today (unless On Demand is a week ahead). Sorry if I spoiled anything. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/72 "2017-05-08T19:12:18Z")
I was a bit confused by the scene of the nuclear power plant on fire. It’s not how I imagine a meltdown occurring, and in any case, wouldn’t the power plants have been shut down during the epidemic? And when Phil first saw the fire in the distance, I assumed it was the strip mall fire caused by the satellite crashing into it (from the previous episode). ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/73 "2017-05-08T19:20:39Z")
And now for the big question: does it get a fourth season? Normally, I would say, “Given that it’s a Fox-produced show on Fox, the _Raising Hope_ rule applies, and it gets a fourth season, even if it’s on Friday nights, or even Sundays at 7 where it’s pre-empted or a repeat airs pretty much every other week through February for some combination of football, Christmas, and the Oscars, so it has enough episodes for syndication.” However, it only has 49 episodes instead of the usual 66. (I used to call this the _'Til Death_ rule, until Fox didn’t renew _The Mindy Project_ for a fourth season; it could now be limited to Fox-produced shows.) My gut feeling is, unless Fox needs to fill a 30-minute hole in its schedule really badly, it will get moved to FX or FXX. We’ll know next Monday (May 15). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/74 "2017-05-08T19:22:51Z")
Don’t apologize for spoilers - no reason I shouldn’t have seen the last episode. Looks like my DVR skipped the second episode. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/75 "2017-05-08T19:22:52Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I was a bit confused by the scene of the nuclear power plant on fire. It’s not how I imagine a meltdown occurring, and in any case, wouldn’t the power plants have been shut down during the epidemic? > > And when Phil first saw the fire in the distance, I assumed it was the strip mall fire caused by the satellite crashing into it (from the previous episode). I assumed that the strip mall fire might have spread to the plant. I would imagine than an uncontrolled fire at a nuclear plant could possibly release dangerous material with or without a meltdown, or maybe even cause a meltdown. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can speak to that. You may be right about the plants being shut down, in which case their concerns about other plants may be unfounded. But it’s not a stretch that they would react based on unfounded concerns. Then again, imagine a short-staffed plant trying to decide whether or not to shut off a city’s power supply during a crisis. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/76 "2017-05-08T19:28:47Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > And now for the big question: does it get a fourth season? > > Normally, I would say, “Given that it’s a Fox-produced show on Fox, the _Raising Hope_ rule applies, and it gets a fourth season, even if it’s on Friday nights, or even Sundays at 7 where it’s pre-empted or a repeat airs pretty much every other week through February for some combination of football, Christmas, and the Oscars, so it has enough episodes for syndication.” However, it only has 49 episodes instead of the usual 66. (I used to call this the _'Til Death_ rule, until Fox didn’t renew _The Mindy Project_ for a fourth season; it could now be limited to Fox-produced shows.) > > My gut feeling is, unless Fox needs to fill a 30-minute hole in its schedule really badly, it will get moved to FX or FXX. > > We’ll know next Monday (May 15). Are they planning some kind of announcement next Monday? How is it doing in the ratings? ---
**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:** [May 8, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/77 "2017-05-08T19:39:01Z")
Next week, the various networks have their “upfronts”, when they announce their schedules for the new season. This is primarily aimed at the advertisers, but they also tell us which shows were renewed and which were cancelled. The schedule is [here](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-upfronts-2017-thrs-guide-presentations-parties-996751) at the website of The Hollywood Reporter. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/78 "2017-05-08T19:46:32Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I assumed that the strip mall fire might have spread to the plant. I would imagine than an uncontrolled fire at a nuclear plant could possibly release dangerous material with or without a meltdown, or maybe even cause a meltdown. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can speak to that. > > You may be right about the plants being shut down, in which case their concerns about other plants may be unfounded. But it’s not a stretch that they would react based on unfounded concerns. > > Then again, imagine a short-staffed plant trying to decide whether or not to shut off a city’s power supply during a crisis. Most US Nuclear plants and I think most of the world’s plants are designed to shut themselves down if unattended and in case of most normal problems. Earthquakes & Tsunamis not being normal though as we know a serious and real threat. One or even a dozen plants running into serious problems I would buy but I don’t think the majority of plants catastrophically failing is reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/79 "2017-05-08T19:58:16Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Most US Nuclear plants and I think most of the world’s plants are designed to shut themselves down if unattended and in case of most normal problems. > > Earthquakes & Tsunamis not being normal though as we know a serious and real threat. > > One or even a dozen plants running into serious problems I would buy but I don’t think the majority of plants catastrophically failing is reasonable. Fair enough, but this group isn’t really knowledgeable about such things, so I can’t blame them for assuming the worst and acting accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035/80 "2017-05-08T20:00:26Z")
Here’s an interview with Will Forte talking about the chances of renewal, among other things. Apparently they’re right on the line ratings-wise. > **['Last Man on Earth' Star Will Forte Breaks Down Season Finale, Chances for...](https://ew.com/tv/2017/05/07/last-man-on-earth-finale-will-forte-renewal/)** > > The creator and star of Fox's post-apocalyptic comedy answers questions about the season 3 finale [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-man-on-earth-season-3/767035.md?page=5)