re: Paradise on Hulu

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just couldn't buy that Gary would murder Ennis.

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Don’t you know about that Ennis magic?

Gary and his bf, forgot his name, bonded over being lonely in the real world. So much so they got a group of doomsday people together who were also lonely.

The bf even picked the nurse who he was attracted to in hopes of hooking up, I don’t remember another middle aged or attractive enough male in the group. He didn’t expect her to be a lesbian and him being miserable is shown through the flashbacks. Gary latches on Terri and doesn’t want to end up alone again and after being in a bunker for so long, yeah, you go a little crazy.

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I get all that, and I understand the reasoning, which is why I don't have a huge problem with it. I enjoyed the episode. I just didn't find that part very believable. Hell, maybe I'm just in denial because they made me really like Gary, and at the end of the episode they made me not like him

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Gary was a pretty hardcore loner, he had almost no people skills and apparently not only kept him from finding a mate but also even a good friend. Ennis becomes his best friend. He's not familiar with close relationships so he quickly goes from admiring Terri to believing he's in love with her.

Think of it like the "puppy love" kids get into in Jr High, except that he's an adult and never had those experiences before to teach him there are different kinds of relationships and how to move on from a rejection. So he internalizes it. Yes, he's saying she's his friend to everyone, but inside he's burning for her so deeply that he would rather her stay there and not be with him romantically than he would for her to leave.

Ennis' statements put out loud Gary's biggest fear. In that moment we learn his misplaced feelings for Terri are greater than his feelings of friendship toward Ennis.

From the brief moment we saw at the end, it's very possible the others aren't being held by the train folks but that Bean ran ahead and warned them of Gary's actions and they had fled. Gary has likely been alone for a short period, enough to create enough of a fictitious tale for himself that when Xavier showed up, he didn't have to create much else new.

Terri and Bean may well be with the train people voluntarily, with her helping them to supplement their fuel with her mushroom (or whatever) concoction. If so, it may be that he sends Xavier after the train people in the hopes they will kill him and he can swoop in to fill the void in Terri's heart (maybe he doesn't know that Bean saw him, or else has gotten so lost in his romantic dream that he forgets/ignores it).

Wow you nailed it, I told me wife the “mailman” did a fantastic job in his roll and makes sense he played Kemper so well.

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 6:


Did anyone else notice the email sent to the Circuit City guy in 1997 came from “Alex Q.”?

Sinatra’s “Alex” may be a way to send messages back to the past and possibly travel there.

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But, the scene in the newest episode where Jane has the militia train guy in a headlock while simultaneously negotiating terms for a meeting might be my favorite “this show made a pretty 100lb woman an unstoppable 

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I guess, but I thought she left herself wide open to be shot in the head. Even a half decent shooter could have shot her in the head at that range before she could pull the trigger.

I do love the show tho. I'm extremely interested to see next week's episode to see where things go.

There was no reason for her to come out aggressive. This was just one of those tv show “I’m woman, hear me roar” moments

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There was no reason for her to come out aggressive. This was just one of those tv show “I’m woman, hear me roar” moments

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She walks out alone and instantly the odds are heavily against her. She gets one of them and suddenly the odds are a little better for her because they don’t want to see one of their people die.

She’s flown under everyone’s radar by being meek and mild. It just doesn’t fit with the character