Main cast: Sydney Chandler (Wendy), Alex Lawther (Joe Hermit), Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia), Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier), Babou Ceesay (Morrow), Adarsh Gourav (Slightly), Erana James (Curly), Lily Newmark (Nibs), Jonathan Ajayi (Smee), David Rysdahl (Arthur Sylvia), Diêm Camille (Siberian), Moe Bar-El (Rashidi), Adrian Edmondson (Atom Eins), and Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh)
Director: Ugla Hauksdóttir
Finally, someone dies in this show and the “major death”, as the Disney-loving media shills call it, is… uh, wait, that fellow is not even in the main credits.
Ugh, there goes my excitement.
Oh, and a supporting character gets facehugger’ed in the final scene, but since it’s not one of the annoying main characters, again, it’s an anticlimactic moment.
The Fly brings everyone back to the present, because everyone just loves the present-day company of Wendy the wide-eyed idiot and her man-children entourage. She’s now acting like the baby alien is her pet and BFF, because this is what we get when we send children on a critical mission.
Mind you, in light of the revelations in the previous episode — Boy Kavalier paid for the sabotage and crashing of the dang spaceship that started the whole mess — it only demonstrates further how much of a hack Noah Hawley is when he has Boy cheerfully sending children to retrieve the precious cargo on that ship. How this man ever gets hired to write anything beyond the ABCs, I have no idea.
This episode is composed mostly of posturing and talking. The main cast all sport their googly, unblinking wide eyes at me, as if they are enjoying the sight of my soul being drained out of me as I watch this thing with increasing stupor. I perk up a bit when the aliens kill some pointless nobodies, only to groan when I see how bad the CGI is.
The sheep at the end is especially terrible to look at, a constant reminder that this show is made by hacks.
So, we are six episodes in, and nothing remotely noteworthy has happened. Instead, the pile of stupidity and lore contradictions continue to pile high on top of crap acting and creepy googly eyes.
Seriously, this show is such a crapfest.
