the first episode was very good, i'm excited for the rest of the show
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no one knows what a pez dispenser is, lmao
so the rebellion not only destroyed all written records, but also somehow completely stopped the passing on of oral history?
Rebecca Ferguson and David Oyelowo are both great
i don't have much to say, this was another very good episode
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pretty sure i own that water bottle
i like that we're getting the first glimpse of how powerful IT/judicial is—my vague recollection of the book is of IT being even more so
putting the shutoff valve in between the pressure relief tank and the pipe seems like bad design. also, what's producing the steam and couldn't they shut that off? or like, any way of bypassing the generator and venting the steam out wherever it usually goes?
ooh, wonder if that girl noticed the fake lush greenery
how is there no one better qualified than the clearly out of his depth kid?
or they could have taken out symmetrical blades to remove the imbalance and restarted it while they repaired the others. clearly this is written like this to force juliet to deal with her fear of water, but still
those gripes aside, this was a good episode—the tension of the generator maintenance was very well done
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how on earth do they still have coffee
who the hell is that
i have no further commentary. this was a very good episode, i continue to really enjoy this show
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boy, bernard is a really terrible speaker
is the magnification thing to stop them from developing more advanced technology, or to stop them finding out about something? and other questions i might know the answer to if i remembered the book
the pez dispenser is back, lmfao
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So who's the shadowy man? My money's on Bernard; in the book he comes off way more powerful
i keep having no commentary, this show is just very good
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an etch-a-sketch, lmao
the full might of IT^Wjanitorial
or could bernard just be faking the whole "i trust you jules, i'm on your side" routine
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This show is getting stressful.
Ooh, we finally get evil Bernard!
She's clearly not going to fall to her death. There's definitely one of the landings right below her.
This episode was very tense and very well done. The whole adaptation has been really well executed.
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is bernard’s table at the pancake house ready
Juliet don’t sit with your back to her
how’s she just getting through the security checkpoints now
Another fantastic episode. This show is really good at building up tension. Might be my second favorite Apple TV+ show after Severance.
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“Shut your eyes!” lmao like that’s gonna help bernard
don’t take the plea bargain jules
They’re good in supply! (wasn’t the whole heat tape thing way more explicit in the book?)
Oh no jules you shouldn’t have told him about the door
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This show was fantastically well done, I eagerly await the next season. In the meantime, I think I'm going to reread the books.
All of the acting was good, and Rebecca Ferguson in particular was great. The writing and adaptation from the book was good (I think, it's been ages since I read the books). It was not action-packed, but it moved along at a fairly steady clip. The visuals were good, and the soundtrack was fantastic. There is, at this moment, not a thing I would change about this season.
they omitted the detail from the book about the rancid soup lol
I feel like much of that ordeal could have been avoided if she hadn’t tied the rope right over the middle
I cannot tell which sounds are supposed to be diegetic or nondiegetic
I’m fascinated why they seem to have made him a complete recluse not even able to leave IT; that is not the case in the book
this was a very good episode. we are so back
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I'm very curious about the judge. She seems to have completely replaced Lukas from the books
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realized I'm an episode behind
Rebecca Ferguson is great. i have few other thoughts, this was a solid episode
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I am fascinated to see what becomes of Lukas, he was way more important in the book
juliette underwater is no less terrifying here than in the book (though I think in the book, she at least had the foresight to bring a knife to cut the rope)
boy, bernard keeps becoming even more of a motherfucker
ah yes, Apple Vision Pro
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i guess it makes for better television, but didn't—in the book—they make mention of it being faster to travel along the inside edge of the stairs?
i imagine coming to a stop that abruptly at the end of the cable would leave you incredibly badly injured
also sims' wife is perplexing
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ah, so Lucas is starting to come into place
this was a solid episode, though I wish we'd seen more of juliet/solo
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a thought has occurred to me: what if salvador quinn's/bernard's/lukas's question is "why are the silos necessary." i hope that does not portend the showwrunners dropping or minimizing Shift
i am curious to see what happens with the other inhabitant(s) of silo 17. what it seems like they were hinting at with the axe and the arrow and the blood does not align with the book
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Sims is just tiresome at this point
Walker becoming an informant I just do not buy
So I guess the other people in 17 are the kids, just way older than in the book. The pacing of Juliette's plot line is also tiresome—it felt like nothing happened this whole episode
This whole episode was... underwhelming
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I honestly cannot tell whether Knox is onto the fact that Walker is being spied on
imagine never having heard music in your life and then hearing monster mash
Tim Robbins is very good
This was one of the best episodes of the season. But given that we're only just getting to the end of _Wool,_ I grow increasingly concerned that they're just going to cut out _Shift_ altogether
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there's no way walker's hand signals were that obvious in the last episode; surely we would have noticed that
how was that explosion big enough to be heard/felt in silo 17
i still do not understand what's going on with camille
SHIFT, BABYYYYYYY, LFG!!
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This season was once again very good. My only complaint was that, at times, the pacing felt a little slow. But the payoff was worth it.
Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins continue to be really great. Steve Zahn is also a solid addition.
I am incredibly excited for season 3 to see how they do Shift.
