First time I’ve come back in about ten years because while I empathize personal issues are not what I’m looking for in an entertainment podcast. I almost bailed because Owen is brutal. Can’t relate to characters because they don’t jibe with his outlook and whatnot (Gracie because he knew some kids who were cult-like in the day). Argued a point for many minutes after he’d just said he didn’t remember the episode at all. As someone pointed out, very judgmental,also. Calling Donnie a “schlub,” ad nauseam, and bewildered as to how he could possibly make good money, which is absurd. Then he called himself one, so I guess he can’t, either. I checked out a photo of him, glass houses and all that rot, mate. Not being good with names unless a legitimate “learning disorder” is laziness and being self-absorbed, simple as. I know they need to fill time, but going on and on about logic gaps is futile. This show needs to be viewed as a ScI-Fi fever dream, even farcical at times, as usually every episode has several characters making incomprehensible choices and non-choices to move the plots and story lines along. One person writing notes and the other stewing about this and that doesn’t work with shows like this, ala The Wire, also. So much going on rapt attention is required and if writing notes, which I understand is necessary, needs to be watched properly as well. I accidentally hit on a S5 episode and no Owen. The next and probably last one I meant to start was the one when Maggie joined and she is exponentially better, so I will see it through. No contentious back and forth stuff over every little thing. Doesn’t say “like” much at all, which is a rarity with hosts. I don’t understand at all why people who’ve done this for years make no discernible attempts to curtail the filler words. Minus one star (being generous) for enduring 25 odd episodes of his nonsense, but otherwise it’s well improved. I just finished the series for the first time, binge-style. Alison didn’t turn off the garbage disposal. Gracie joined in S2 and midway through S3 said: “I’m 18-years old and I’ve never smoked anything or been to a rock concert or gone skinny-dipping,” so at the very least was 17 in S2. She looks young, yes, but not 13. Cheers. Ps - The acting overall is excellent (even Paul, as written) and Tatiana Maslany is superb. It also makes a far better podcast with Maggie having seen it. With two “blind” watchers it just results in pointless semi-arguments and wild speculations which may be okay when they’re both really watching and processing most of it, but didn’t for these two. Being partners didn’t enhance anything, with Natasha being justifiably non-plussed with whatever Owen was rabbiting on about and his awful attempts to make it clear, which wasn’t possible.
