As it turns out, he’s not gay, but for some reason he’s chosen Carol. That leaves an interesting situation regarding Todd and Phil/Tandy, and the other three women. Then again, new Phil may sleep around with all four.
The suggestion that new Phil has to be killed was something that I suspected would come up eventually.
It appears that Todd’s niceness was the result of having Melissa to himself. The first sign of a real threat to that has turned him into another Tandy.
Thanks, I missed the first couple of shows, hopefully they’ll have reruns.
Well shoot, new-Phil being gay would’ve been interesting, but then we would’ve missed out on another of Carol’s hilarious camping-fantasy sex scenes.
And what happened to “no sex before marriage”?
Okay, so now we have two assholes, joined by their mutual hatred and jealousy of new-Phil …since Todd ‘broke up’ with Melissa after seeing her happily riding on the back of that garbage truck. I understand him and Tandyman wanting to kill new-Phil, but don’t think they’re that dark …this is a comedy after all. There must be another way … maybe he could die in a farming accident, etc.
The writers will surely end the season with a fairly big cliffhanger. Maybe after new-Phil moves them to a better farming area, a new character will kill him…
Lines that made me LOL:
“Well, isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black. Or African-American. Or American!”
“Haven’t you done enough ploughing for one day?”
I’m kinda floored by how stupid and obvious and unpleasant it’s all turned out to be. I had high hopes…
Yep. I will watch the final one of the season next week, but that is likely it.
It started out as quirky, funny, and I was cheering for Phil Miller. Now, it’s just crappy and I don’t even like him.
It started out creepy and funny, and it’s still creepy and funny, imho.
I suspect that they won’t ever move from Tucson, because the limited amount I know about TV production suggests that they got a really great tax break for filming in Tucson, or something along those lines. At least that’s a better reason for why they’re in Tucson than anything in-universe.
(And why they don’t just move over to the next cul-de-sac when the poop and garbage pools are full? Same basic reason.)
Not to threadshit, but yeah, I’m in the same boat and I quit watching. It was such a cool idea, and it’s turned out so nasty and repetitive.
Agreed. I still enjoy it. The whole Todd turns into Tandy (and him constantly referring to himself as the “Tandyman” is hilarious) thing was actually quite amusing. I think the entire show has been a great look at just how anti-social and petty we really are at the core of our beings - like Seinfeld at the end of the world (though definitely not as funny as Seinfeld 
) - and how being away from other humans can make us fall into that anti-social behavior at the drop of a hat.
Now that Carol’s been married, it’s all good.
Carol and New Phil are obviously faking.
SPOILER ALERT!
Tandy and Todd reminded me so much of a couple of cavemen when they were plotting new-guy’s death so they could get their women back.
Also, I saw the group as cavemen and cavewomen overwhelmed with excitement when new-Phil unveils his development of electric light.
The episode key for me - “I don’t want to be with a man who can leave someone in the desert to die. I wanna be with the man who doesn’t have the heart to go through with it.”
With a little love can Tandy find his humanity again?
He’d better hang on to it, because if she ever finds out that the Carol song has a couple of lyrics lifted from Gail’s (Steenburgen) song about the moon …
But Tandy can worry about that tomorrow.
Just when the plot lines were getting a little stale and typically-sitcom-ish – Carol saves Tandy from death in the desert and they go riding off together into the sunset to find someplace new to live. Then BAM! – we have another Miller! We see a spaceman with a “Miller” name tag floating in a gigantic space station above the Earth, trying to reach Houston!
This has to be the brother - “My name is Tandy, I’m a Gemini and have a brother.” But did he say “have”? Does he know he’s alive?
Folks say his picture was in Tandy/Phil’s family photo in an earlier episode.
BTW - do I have to stop calling him “Tandy”?
Love it! Love this show’s little twists. My interest is certainly renewed. Next season shows promise …might even somehow end up in space …
My best LOL line:
“It’s called casual sex, Tandy. Geez, haven’t you ever wanted to have sex just for fun?”
Looks like maybe the writers didn’t know where to go with the current situation and are planning on starting out fresh.
I suppose they could end up back in Tucson, but something would have to happen to new Phil because he won’t tolerate having Tandy/Phil around.
Wondering about the guy in the ISS. Is there ever just one person on board? Might there be others? How long has it been since the virus and how long can the station go without a supply run? Is there a Soyuz (or some other reentry craft) docked that he can use to come back to Earth? If he does return, won’t he be weak and require time to regain muscle strength after all that time? So many questions…
I really liked the Season Finale. And it was an interesting difference between Phil (I assume since there is no other Phil Miller where Phil & Carol are going he’s back to Phil) and newPhil - while Phil thinks about killing others, he can’t go through with it, whereas newPhil is perfectly fine leaving others to die.
The ending with Phil’s bro in the ISS was great! Wonder if Phil & Carol are going to end up in Houston in S2.
I wonder if it will turn out that Phil’s brother was responsible for the virus that killed everyone.
An experiment goes horribly wrong and kills everyone but the brother, who in a last ditch effort to save the station throws all the corpses into the infected lab module. He then jettisons the module, hoping it will burn up on reentry and destroy the virus. Obviously it doesn’t work.
How much he told Houston is up for debate, because this is exactly the kind of thing they would want to keep quiet anyway.
It’s a one joke show and it isn’t a particularly funny joke at all, much less the 10thousandth time they tell it. I don’t need to like the protagonist, I do need to find the show ok in some way (compelling characters, interesting plot, good dialogue, something) and there’s nothing there. From me it went from funny and interesting and having potential to crap.
I think thats being a little unfair to newPhil. Considering that oldPhil, who already was acting a bit “off,” now seemed to be exhibiting homicidal tendencies, banishing him from the community may arguably have seemed like the most humane option. If newPhil wanted oldPhil dead he could easily have just killed him, or just left him in the desert without the two days of supplies. NewPhil strikes me as the type who can make hard decisions without agonizing over it, but I don’t think he is homicidal. I think he actually thought he was giving oldPhil a decent chance. If he was consigning oldPhil to certain death, it was only because he underestimated how much of a f***up oldPhil is.
I’d also like to mention that, considering that we probably won’t be seeing their characters anymore, it was nice to see Todd and Melissa reconcile.
That ending with the brother is the stuff of nightmares. This show is dark. It just happens to be funny sometimes too. Everyone is awful and gross, but that’s what I like. It’s different without people being too cartoonishly awful, like on It’s Always Sunny. I mean, I like that show too, but its tone is very different. Protagonists don’t always have to be nice or good. I do get that maybe Phil Tandy might be too much to swallow for other people, but it works for me.
Yeah, but Tandy was holed up in his house for 3 days, not bothering anyone. Refusing to come out. newPhil decided to have a plan to lure Tandy out of his house, to tackle him, and drop him in the middle of the desert.
I think also that talking about killing folks and actually doing it are very different things and Carol, for one, didn’t think Tandy could do it (and he couldn’t). If newPhil really wanted to give Tandy a chance, he would have dropped him in a different town, like Phoenix or something and told him never to come back.
In addition, as newPhil asked “Why Tuscon”. It seems a bit cruel to tell Tandy, hey, we’re kicking you out of your home, even though none of us really know why we are settling here instead of a place with lots of clean water and vegetation. Even if they really though Tandy was going to kill people, move away in the middle of the night.
I had predicted the ending for the most part… but just flipped.
I thought the last scene would be NewPhil and the others loading up the bus and heading out to a new more livable location. Phil/Tandy would be expecting to go but would be stopped by NewPhil. Phil would be despondent and realize that he couldn’t survive alone anymore. Then the bus would pull away…revealing Carol having stayed behind.