Post by nondescript spice on May 6, 2015 14:30:51 GMT -5
is anyone else watching this? it's a long shot since no one else besides me mentioned it in the 'just finished watching' thread when i first brought it up in early march. the season finale of the first season was this past sunday and it is signed up for another season.
i think it's funny - phil miller (will forte) has driven around the country for two years, looking for any other survivors besides himself of some kind of virus that apparently finished off the rest of the population. so far the virus has not yet been explained. he settles in tuscon, his hometown and spray paints "ALIVE IN TUSCON" on some billboards, hoping to attract others.
the first couple of shows were the funniest, imo, even though it was mostly just forte with a scraggly beard, wandering around tuscon, trashing everything in sight. every time he wanted to go into a store or house, he simply shoots the door down. he set cars on fire. he steals famous paintings to hang in the mansion he picks as his home. he has a toilet pool. he has a margarita pool. fortunately they are not the same pool.
"there's really no wrong way to use a margarita pool." - phil miller
his loneliness eventually drives him to draw faces on a ton of different balls as a nod to castaway and wilson, who he keeps as friends, even after more survivors surface.
but a woman named carol is the first one to appear - not the beauty he imagined, but he isn't alone anymore. he's not too excited at the thought of marrying carol, or knocking her up to re-populate the earth, because she can be really annoying to him at times. i love kristen schaal, though. she's hilarious. i liked her in 30 rock and love her in bob's burgers. and her standup is pretty funny.
anyway, more people see phil's alive in tuscon signs, so there were five others aside from phil and carol at the end of the first season. the cliffhanger was good - it looks like jason sudeikis is joining the show as phil's brother.
what i love most about phil is he's not a likable character at all, really, for a main character of a show. he just wants to get laid, basically by anyone except carol. he constantly acts like a hard up 15 year old boy hoping to score for the first time and does a lot of lying and making the others turn against him.
will forte said one of the best things about writing for the show is coming up with stupid little things he would want to do if no one else was around and then getting to do them.
i think it's funny - phil miller (will forte) has driven around the country for two years, looking for any other survivors besides himself of some kind of virus that apparently finished off the rest of the population. so far the virus has not yet been explained. he settles in tuscon, his hometown and spray paints "ALIVE IN TUSCON" on some billboards, hoping to attract others.
the first couple of shows were the funniest, imo, even though it was mostly just forte with a scraggly beard, wandering around tuscon, trashing everything in sight. every time he wanted to go into a store or house, he simply shoots the door down. he set cars on fire. he steals famous paintings to hang in the mansion he picks as his home. he has a toilet pool. he has a margarita pool. fortunately they are not the same pool.
"there's really no wrong way to use a margarita pool." - phil miller
his loneliness eventually drives him to draw faces on a ton of different balls as a nod to castaway and wilson, who he keeps as friends, even after more survivors surface.
but a woman named carol is the first one to appear - not the beauty he imagined, but he isn't alone anymore. he's not too excited at the thought of marrying carol, or knocking her up to re-populate the earth, because she can be really annoying to him at times. i love kristen schaal, though. she's hilarious. i liked her in 30 rock and love her in bob's burgers. and her standup is pretty funny.
anyway, more people see phil's alive in tuscon signs, so there were five others aside from phil and carol at the end of the first season. the cliffhanger was good - it looks like jason sudeikis is joining the show as phil's brother.
what i love most about phil is he's not a likable character at all, really, for a main character of a show. he just wants to get laid, basically by anyone except carol. he constantly acts like a hard up 15 year old boy hoping to score for the first time and does a lot of lying and making the others turn against him.
will forte said one of the best things about writing for the show is coming up with stupid little things he would want to do if no one else was around and then getting to do them.
but the others just feel temporary. i thought it was hilarious that the gorgeous other phil miller picked carol over the other women - their sex scene cracked me up - "uh-oh! the bears are coming! better put the food in the tree!!" 
