Ethan and Talia watch the first episode of season 2: Future Days. Including: why so far in this season the storytelling doesn’t feel as tight as season 1?; the very lax regulations around therapy in a post-apocalyptic world; and most importantly, how buoyed or disappointed are we by the direction of the new season?

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 9, Look for the Light. Including: Talia’s suggestion for an alternative, much less devastating season ending, focussing on giraffes; a final pondering on whether Joel can be considered any kind of hero; and some ruminations on what season 2 might have in store.

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 8, When We Are in Need (without spoliers for the rest of the season). Including: do TV series preacher’s get an unfairly bad rep?; do we now live in an era of trigger warnings as spoilers?; and more wondering just who the good guys are in this programme…

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 7, Left Behind (without spoliers for the rest of the season). Including: Talia mourns the loss of the youthful intensity of teenage relationships; why are Walkmans the preferred music technology in a post-Infected world?; and are violent arcade games still preferred in a world full of zombies?

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 6, Kin (without spoliers for the rest of the season). Including: disagreements about the state of Joel and Ellie’s relationship; more disagreements about what is going on for Joel; and intense attitudes to contraception for teenagers in secret post-apocalyptic encampments.

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 5, Endure and Survive (without spoliers for the rest of the season). Including: the delicious cruelness of Kathleen, our everyday tyrant; how popular heroes aren’t the ones who get shit done; and why do we actually like episodes such as this when they are so emotionally distressing?

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 4, Please Hold To My Hand (without spoliers for the rest of the season). Including: the poignancy of jokes in a dystopian future; the scariness of ordinary citizens gone bad; and how this is one of the only TV series that deals with the psychological consequences of a character shooting someone.

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 3, Long, Long Time (without spoliers for the rest of the season). Including: how sliding a love story into a zombie horror series sets up all kinds of delightful misdirection; would there be enough water in a resource-scarce world for an additional five minutes in the shower?; and how we want to remember to delight in the taste of strawberries even though we’re not living in a zombie apocalyptic world.

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Ethan and Talia rewatch episode 2, Infected (without spoliers for the rest of the season). Including: this episode as the set designer’s dream; the modern TV audience’s acceptance of subtitles; how to do horror for an audience like us who doesn’t particularly like horror series; Bella Ramsay’s spot-on depiction of a teenager; and once more the incredible economy of the screenwriting in this series.

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Many apologies that this is not a podcast to say that series 3 of The OA has been commissioned… but instead to say that we have just released the first episode of a new podcast called Reinfected, on the fabulous HBO show The Last of Us. An episode-by-episode rewatch of season 1, in preparation for week-by-week episodes when season 2 of The Last of Us is released in 2025.

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