There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that I didn’t get shit about that ending. Like, I know what I’m looking at. I know how we got there. I just don’t get… why? Why is this how it ends? I just don’t get it. Is there something between the lines, or not?
Watching this felt like humanity was being called out. It exposed what makes us both great and shitty at the same time. It felt deeply in tune with how people would actually handle earth-shattering events. How we split into factions. How we create our own sense of justice—built on trauma, warped ideals, and fractured truths. And most of all, how people just… accept even the strangest, most occult things. Because there’s only so much we can give a crap about before we move on.
What I loved about the show, aside from that gorgeous, jaw-dropping world-ending sequence, was how it explored so many perspectives. It humanized the individual and showed how their choices ripple out, affecting entire systems in unpredictable ways. Because everyone starts somewhere. We see minor protests snowball into fully fledged cults. Mere journalists rise to prominence, only to realize they weren’t feeding people the truth but the lies they wanted to hear. Office workers doing anything to move up the ladder, even giving up on loved ones. The commentary on humanity was so dense, so cutting.
There were so many points in this where I was completely awe struck. One of the first is when we are finally shown the space ship. The whole first episode shows us how day to day life is for these teenagers, from their crushes, to the pains of school. While all of this was happening though, when people looked out, they seemed a little dejected. As if they were spacing out while focused on something in particular rather than a random direction. Then in the end, the show cuts to this jaw dropping scene of the city sized space ship casually floating in the sky. Really puts a nail in how the ship is like a weirdly shaped cloud in the sky for daily onlookers, but no one’s forgotten the shadows it casts.
This really reminded me of Pluto in how on point the world building is. Merging sci-fi with the real world so seamlessly.
Honestly, I’d call this a must-watch show. It starts off feeling like an incredible slice of life and ends in a full-blown end of the world. I mean, what else do I even need to say?