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i didn't realize rashida jones was in this

this show looks fantastic

the first episode was very good, i'm excited for the rest of the show
May 6, 2023 at 2:34amWeb
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsMay 7, 2023
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsMay 13, 2023
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsMay 24, 2023
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJun 2, 2023
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJun 3, 2023
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJun 11, 2023
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJun 17, 2023
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.
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJun 25, 2023
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.
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJul 1, 2023
“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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJul 1, 2023
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.
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsNov 17, 2024
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsNov 27, 2024
I'm very curious about the judge. She seems to have completely replaced Lukas from the books
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsDec 8, 2024
realized I'm an episode behind

Rebecca Ferguson is great. i have few other thoughts, this was a solid episode
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsDec 8, 2024

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

Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsDec 17, 2024
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsDec 31, 2024
ah, so Lucas is starting to come into place

this was a solid episode, though I wish we'd seen more of juliet/solo
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJan 12, 2025
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJan 16, 2025
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJan 17, 2025
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
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJan 20, 2025
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!!
Show threadSlothdudeJan 12, 2025
@shadowfacts I strongly suspect they will condense it a lot. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of the threads dropped entirely, and others addressed in flashbacks. Frankly, I found that particular book to be rather tedious reading, and some of the characters were… not the brightest, to say the least.
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJan 12, 2025
@slothdude yeah, I can see how that'd be the case. though I found the slowly figuring out what happened quite entertaining
Show threaddemizeJul 1, 2023

@shadowfacts he obviously didn’t know about the door

I’m betting he doesn’t know what it connects to, either, but I imagine we got a glimpse of that right before the credits

And I think I need to read the books, now

Show threadteduJun 17, 2023
@shadowfacts I really want to read the books, which I purchased ages ago, but not until the tv series is done.
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJun 17, 2023
@tedu wait until the season is done or the entire series? if the latter, you might be waiting a while
Show threadteduJun 17, 2023
@shadowfacts I think the season. I'm willing to wait while it is immediately happening.
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsJun 17, 2023
@tedu that makes more sense. I'm probably going to re-read them once the season is over and presumably ended on a cliffhanger
Show threaddemizeJun 17, 2023

@shadowfacts I was sure she was going to escape, run the the corn and get away, and then she didn’t

and then the show surprised me by giving me exactly what I expected, and ended on a somehow-amazing cliffhanger

very good

Show threadEvan LightJun 11, 2023

@shadowfacts My hypothesis is that maintenance is communicating with people on the outside.

Seems likely that they, however, do not get resources from outside. "Repurposing cameras." Implies finite inventory that is possibly not replenishable.

Still no idea whether the people in the silo are being protected or used. Seems more like the latter so far but to what end? We know nothing of the world outside. Is it even Earth?

Show threadSörenJun 17, 2023
@shadowfacts still wondering this after episode 8
Show threadDigital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽May 24, 2023
@shadowfacts Yeah, the one farm/restaurant thing we saw does not answer my logistics questions. The leather coats on Judicial are especially WTF. Where are the cows? Or… who are the leathers taken from?
Show threadSörenMay 25, 2023
@mdhughes @shadowfacts Soylent Green is people
Show threaddemizeMay 13, 2023

@shadowfacts my main comment was basically “the silo is clearly a technological and engineering marvel why does it not have fully redundant generators”

(the answer is “plot”, ofc)

Show threadSörenMay 13, 2023

@shadowfacts they also should have a bunch of spare blades instead of trying to patch one up on a tight schedule.

But yes, really well-done episode.

Show threadSörenMay 7, 2023

@shadowfacts

> so the rebellion not only destroyed all written records, but also somehow completely stopped the passing on of oral history?

That part seemed a little iffy to me

Show threadJeff MartinMay 6, 2023
@shadowfacts whaaaat?? Rashida Jones? Is she even in the previews? Or am I just blind? Maybe worth a second look.
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsMay 6, 2023
@cuchaz she was not in the preview I saw, but I suspect the first episode is the only one with her