# The Last Man on Earth - season 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850 "2015-09-28T17:17:12Z")\ **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 28, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/1 "2015-09-28T17:17:12Z")
The first episode was last night, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It kept the goofy fun (driving a stealth bomber around, Carol’s conversation between Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln), and dialed way back on the Phil-acts-like-an-unbelievable-tool aspect that made parts of last season somewhat unpleasant. One of the things I like so much about this show is that I literally have no idea what’s going to happen. Will Phil and Carol be back together 5 minutes into next episode? They might… or they might spend the entire season wandering around separately. And when will Astronaut Miller make an appearance? Ever? The idea of one of Carol’s roommates trying to avoid “the virus” is interesting, but I’m not expecting (nor do I really want) any actual backstory-building along those lines. Favorite line: “Ooh, Carol. Where did you get such an expensive T-shirt? In the jewel markets of Monaco?” ---
**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 29, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/2 "2015-09-29T02:15:18Z")
So much darker than anything last season; I wonder if we’ll ever find out what happened in Tucson. As for Phil’s brother coming back down to Earth; I now it’s a sitcom, but he has to last an escape capsule he has no idea who pilot without any ground support and he’s been in microgravity for at least 2 years (not that I expect the latter to be addressed at all). But then again they did point out that he may not share whatever immunity the Earthbound survivors have. Come to think of it, why is he alone? 😕 Where did the rest of the crew go if the escape pod is still there? Maybe it would be better if he stayed up there. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/3 "2015-09-29T03:55:06Z")
I’d crawl a mile over flaming broken glass to stick my knob in Kristen Schall’s chinless pasty face. Never seen the show by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/4 "2015-09-29T05:11:45Z")
Delighted to hear dialing back on phil-the-asshole, which made me give up after about 6 episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/5 "2015-09-29T15:07:43Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’d crawl a mile over flaming broken glass to stick my knob in Kristen Schall’s chinless pasty face. > > Never seen the show by the way. I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t happen even if _you_ were the last man on Earth. But thanks for classing up this thread. ---
**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 30, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/6 "2015-09-30T02:42:16Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > So much darker than anything last season; I wonder if we’ll ever find out what happened in Tucson. I just saw the episode and agree that it was much darker than the previous season, particularly when they visited Carol’s old apartment. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/7 "2015-09-30T03:35:25Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > So much darker than anything last season; I wonder if we’ll ever find out what happened in Tucson. As for Phil’s brother coming back down to Earth; I now it’s a sitcom, but he has to last an escape capsule he has no idea who pilot without any ground support and he’s been in microgravity for at least 2 years (not that I expect the latter to be addressed at all). But then again they did point out that he may not share whatever immunity the Earthbound survivors have. Come to think of it, why is he alone? 😕 Where did the rest of the crew go if the escape pod is still there? Maybe it would be better if he stayed up there. 😉 In his scenes on the ISS, wasn’t he searching for possible deployment approach using a Soyuz-type capsule? Maybe the whole crew was infected right before they boarded the ISS, and since he’s the brother of Phil, he might have inherited the same immune gene, or whatever, but the rest of the crew died, and he jettisoned them out the airlock. But I’m glad it’s back. So curious to see what they’re going to do this season. I think douchey Phil is behind him. Loved this episode. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/8 "2015-09-30T05:02:29Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Maybe the whole crew was infected right before they boarded the ISS, and since he’s the brother of Phil, he might have inherited the same immune gene, or whatever, but the rest of the crew died, and he jettisoned them out the airlock. We’ve certainly seen no evidence that immunity to the virus is heritable, given that everyone we’ve met who is alive had all of their family die. That said, the show clearly doesn’t really care about the technicalities of “the virus” so I don’t know if that pattern will really matter. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/9 "2015-09-30T07:29:54Z")
I gave up on the show an episode or 2 before the finale last season. I see that people are remarking on the changes. Is it less. . .cringe-inducing, I guess. . .than last season? Phil was a tool and Carol was an unreasonable, crazy jerk. I kinda like Will Forte, and I love Kristin Schaal’s voiceover work, but I couldn’t get into it. Do you think the changes warrant a second chance, give the above? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/10 "2015-09-30T17:16:18Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > I gave up on the show an episode or 2 before the finale last season. I see that people are remarking on the changes. Is it less. . .cringe-inducing, I guess. . .than last season? Phil was a tool and Carol was an unreasonable, crazy jerk. I kinda like Will Forte, and I love Kristin Schaal’s voiceover work, but I couldn’t get into it. Do you think the changes warrant a second chance, give the above? Umm, probably? I mean, it’s one episode, everyone in this thread seems to have liked it and said it was quite different. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/11 "2015-09-30T17:18:30Z")
Nice take on Silent Running. This TV show is truly different. Even though I’m not really enjoying it much I am going to keep watching for while because it is just not more of the same. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/12 "2015-09-30T18:22:14Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Umm, probably? I mean, it’s one episode, everyone in this thread seems to have liked it and said it was quite different. Yeah, I guess it’s a little early to be asking for a judgement like that. Glad to hear it’s improving. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/13 "2015-09-30T18:32:18Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > I gave up on the show an episode or 2 before the finale last season. I see that people are remarking on the changes. Is it less. . .cringe-inducing, I guess. . .than last season? Phil was a tool and Carol was an unreasonable, crazy jerk. I kinda like Will Forte, and I love Kristin Schaal’s voiceover work, but I couldn’t get into it. Do you think the changes warrant a second chance, give the above? I’ll try to take a stab at this, but in short, yes. In season one, arguably to a fault, Phil became more of an ass and a lying douchebag as more and more people arrived. I don’t want to give much away, in case you plan on catching up, but he eventually came to term with it in some way, and I think he’s moved beyond it. Plus, the ending had an interesting plot twist (if you haven’t been able to work it out by now). This first episode of season 2, his beard is back, he’s being his original quirky but good-hearted person to Kristen, and is looking to be on track for returning back to the non-cringe fun of the first few episodes of season 1. ---
**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, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/14 "2015-09-30T23:19:00Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > In his scenes on the ISS, wasn’t he searching for possible deployment approach using a Soyuz-type capsule?.. I thought he was just looking for signs of recent human activity. Granted if he was scoping out landing sites he’d want to try and land as close to people as possible. ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/15 "2015-10-06T02:04:30Z")
Well it’s nice to see the gang’s all together in Malibu. All the dead whales were a bit of a downer though. ---
**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 6, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/16 "2015-10-06T02:25:50Z")
When they found the cow in the first season, one of them mentioned that it was the first animal they’d seen since the virus. Presumably, there are millions upon millions of human and animal corpses everywhere. But the show has avoided showing that, until we saw the dead whales on the beach. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/17 "2015-10-06T02:25:57Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Well it’s nice to see the gang’s all together in Malibu. All the dead whales were a bit of a downer though. Does this mean the virus also wiped out the whales? I liked both of these episodes better than the final ones of last year. Nice to see Will Ferrell, only for him to die immediately. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/18 "2015-10-06T03:31:13Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > Yeah, I guess it’s a little early to be asking for a judgement like that. Glad to hear it’s improving. FWIW, I gave up at the same time you did. I decided to give season two a shot. I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Phil is a lot more likable when he’s not lying or scheming. Or even arguing with Carol for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/19 "2015-10-12T17:20:12Z")
Another enjoyable episode. I worried that bringing all the other characters back in would put us back into a repeat of some of the more boring parts of season 1, but so far that hasn’t happened, largely because it was Carol doing most of the crazy lying. The scene with the gun was obviously totally over the top, but it fits well enough into this show. ---
**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 28, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850/20 "2015-10-28T03:07:26Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Does this mean the virus also wiped out the whales?.. Apparently it also wiped out fish and most insects given how surprised everyone was to find _crickets_ (hey at least Carol’s trying to solve their food problem). I like that fill Phil begrudgingly being accepted back into the group. I wonder when we’ll see his brother again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-last-man-on-earth-season-2/732850.md?page=2)