Surprised no thread on this.
I found it, um, charming I guess is the right word. The review I read online was unhappy with added cast, but realistically it wasn’t going to be just Will Forte forever.
And it looks like more people will show up (unless they are flashback / dream people)
I personally like the addition. Though I wonder how they will do the wedding without an officiate. I know this is a comedy and not a documentary but how did he fill that motor home with gas? Also he should have found a home with solar panels.
I was really looking forward to it. I thought it kinda sucked. Every single gag (?) they showed us in the commercials for the last month happened in the first twenty minutes (really, I checked the time) and then Carol showed up.
You’re right, he couldn’t be alone forever, but then “The Last Man On Earth” was a very misleading title. Or, at the very least, maybe they could have made it more than one episode before they brought in a second character.
Sucked is the wrong word, I guess it just didn’t live up to what I was hoping it would be. I almost turned it off after the first few minutes of Carol correcting his grammar and making him stop at stop signs. In fact, if he had just met her, been annoyed by her and after all of that, left Tucson, never to return, that may have made sense.
Also, why is someone that still stops at stop signs and won’t park in a handicapped parking spot okay with shoplifting and stealing water from the city? She also dropped the grammar Nazi thing pretty quick.
I know it’s a comedy, and this is one where we have to shut off our brains, but I couldn’t. Too many questions were raised about this post-apocalyptic world. I will spoiler it because it might cause others to think of it and ruin someone else’s suspension of disbelief.
What happened to all of the bodies? How about wildlife? Why are the stores in pristine condition? No panic?
I didn’t mind another character. Personally, without another character I would have turned it off. My watching a big goof be goofy limit is about 15-20 minutes. I saw some reviews that talked about not liking Will Forte from his SNL days therefore they wouldn’t like the show, but the only thing I know him from is Nebraska, so no preconceived notions for me.
I got that, they sort of smacked us on the head with it when they plastered the screen with THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, I still thought it was misleading after weeks of promos for the show.
Hey, if I’m the only one who went into the show thinking he’d be the last person on earth*, then I guess I just misunderstood the premise.
*At least for the first season…or even half a season, but it was 20 minutes, our time. I’d almost be willing to bet I viewed more of this show in commercials with him being alone then I saw on the actual show (does that make sense?).
I guess I’d rather they were just upfront about it, called it “The Last Couple On Earth” or something like that and didn’t trick me into watching it. I feel kind of insulted/let down.
I’m going to give it a couple of episodes before I make a decision. I do agree with you that they could have stretched out the “alone” part of the story longer.
Carol obviously needs a little more character development time. And should this series survive I wouldn’t be surprised if more people would show up, either via dreams, flashbacks or possibly some far fetched guest shots via Gilligan’s Island methods.
I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a very novel way to do the story. And I’m not that annoyed by introducing Carol (her personality though, could they have made her more ridiculous if they tried?). The alone stuff was funny, but it was starting to get dull when he saw the campfire.
I thought it was ok. I’ll have to watch a few more episodes before I decide.
I didn’t think Carol was that unbelievable. She’s been alone for years, she’s barely holding on to (some) semblance of sanity, like Phil.
I did crack up when Phil nonchalantly describes his poop pool and margarita bath.
What I think will happen. I’m spoiling by bringing in outside information:
Based on the IMDB there’s going to be at least three more additions: one man and two women, both of which are gorgeous. I’m sure they’re going to take advantage that he’s now married to Carol.
How did he find all the gas to take an RV across North America? Gas doesn’t keep long and those things get like, what, 14 MPH?
People always say that, but I’ve started cars on decade+ old gas and my lawn mower and snowblower regularly run on year old gas. And maybe he’s adding fuel stabilizer to it.
I’ve been around enough post-apocalyptic stories not to worry about things like endless supplies of gasoline and the fact that no building was locked when everyone else disappeared. And frankly, after the first 20 minutes I was wondering how long they could sustain a story with a single character – two, maybe three episodes?
Regarding Carol’s quirks, my parents were friends with a couple of former POW’s. They didn’t discuss much about life in the camps, but they did talk about the importance of maintaining seemingly meaningless rituals like shaving or sewing buttons on threadbare clothes to maintain a semblance of normalcy and control over one’s environment. I’m okay with stopping at intersections and avoiding handicap spaces. What I’m most worried about is the show turning into yet another version of The Odd Couple.
I liked it and thought it had the right mix of humor and pathos. If I was the last person on earth, I’m pretty sure I would try a lot of that stuff like blowing up cars and bowling into a bunch of lamps. I’d probably also try to bring down a building or two with a bulldozer and TNT… Yeah he was pretty lonely and distraught and the scenes with him in the bar with the balls showed that. Or when he just sits down in exhaustion after the mannequin’s arm falls off. The ads showed us the goofy stuff he was doing but they didn’t show everything.
There probably could have been some more “Forte by himself” material and they probably even could have wrung out several episodes like that but getting Schall in there was smart and I didn’t expect it. Having them not get along very well was good comedy too. Her wanting to stop at stop signs seems a little snippy but that’s how she was dealing with this post-apocalypse and her point about the church was spot on. Maybe her grammar correcting was a little overdone but it’s a goofy character quirk.
One question though, why would the last man on earth want to live in Arizona? That’s a freaking desert, man.
Deserts are apocalyptic looking? More for the story than for anything the character would do. Maybe when they run out of story, they’ll move to the beach ;).
I think the question is, how does he get the gas? There’s no power, except from portable generators, so he can’t just pump it from whatever gas stations he comes across, and even if he does run across the occasional 18-wheeler full of fuel, how does he get it into his vehicles?
As for the other (spoilered) question:
Maybe the virus is a “superbug” genetically modified by Monsanto in association with “Big Pharma” that ended up not only destroying everyone’s flesh, but their bones, and pretty much anything they were wearing at the time. We’ll get to how the main character survived right after we solve the problem of how, on Family Guy, Stewie went back in time ten years and everybody was the same age that they were in the “present”).
A siphon will get it from a higher container to a lower container, so from one car’s gas tank to a tank on the ground, just like we do know. If they found a fuel tanker they could just hook a garden hose up to it, some how, and let it run into the car. As for getting it out of the ground, there are manual pumps available. You see them on the back of pick up trucks for fueling small construction equipment.
You can even just to to an auto parts store and buy a small pump meant for pulling gas or oil out of a tank and use that to pull gas out of an under ground tank.
ETA, he could just open the cover to the underground tanks and throw a bucket with a string down there.
Doesn’t solve the problem of 7.1 billion decomposing corpses and the lack of wild animals enjoying the smorgasbord absent the worlds most efficient predator.
Well, he was being facetious. The underlying sentiment was: just accept things as they are, because if they were otherwise it would be really unpleasant.
I knew I was going to like this show because of the actors. I was not disappointed. I would like to see some dogs, cats, birds, turtles, rats, any kind of potential pets. No cockroaches, though.