Eugene isn't a scientist and does not have the cure...shocker. Not an awful episode, we have the background on Abrams anger issues anyways. Not really anything of note other than mullet boy likes to awkwardly watch others have sex.
I will give them credit to the extent that they had to do this now...no one with 5 brain cells believes the guy has any knowledge of anything, so to keep dragging it out would end up bringing out the Lori go-away heat. This way, if Booger Red didn't kill him already, they can do something else with him if they want. I will say though, any chance of him being a sympathetic figure disappeared with the "I know I am smarter than you" at the end...at that point you're hoping Rambo sticks his liver to the front of the firetruck.
This episode sucked donkey balls again, not so much for the content (of which there wasn't much, except I guess seeing where Booger Red's hand wound came from, and how he was a murderer before he found Eugene?) but for the logistics...I HATE mumbling, especially in fake Southern accents, and the entire opening sequence and the library were full on. Add in the 4/5 dark, can't see shit of the first 35 or 40 minutes, and they can bite me.
That said, there were a couple of subtleties I did appreciate...one was the toilet water. Not only was it dark comedy/eww gross type stuff, it is one of the few actual acknowledgements of what life would be like as a wondering survivalist ( we get entirely too many perfectly manicured yards, houses that are messed up but not decayed, and "ooh, look, pudding pops" whenever someone is hungry for my taste). Another was the voyeurism...I mean, let's face it, the chick is mega-hot as it is...and if you are going to spend the entire show exploring how humans evolve back to their basic instincts, then sex is definitely one. You are either getting it...or watching it and being jealous that other people are getting in
Call it a post-apocalypse porno. They didn't seem to mind anyway.
