At the time I remember reading that the season 2 premiere had like a 100% increase in viewership over the season 1 premiere and it still wasn't enough to justify a third season. I'm glad they ended up doing more eventually, but the show has always been a small cult hit at best.

I loved Party Down the first time, but I have too many other subscriptions to add another one solely for one show

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Almost like it ain’t a zombie show

Jesus, here's a better question, OP: can you be any more exhausting?

People have more than answered your question.

I think it was getting bellow 0.1 in the demo even 12 years ago. The fact is that barely anyone watched it back then, it got super hyped because it was like catnip for TV critics. The only reason it's back is because it's dirt cheap to produce and all the stars are taking a massive discount on their pay (I won't be surprised if they're getting just a few thousand dollars per episode).

> You are one of the few that have actually done that.

Bullshit. You have gotten many answers and you have ignored all of them. Most of them more detailed than this one.

The random side issues are the whole point. The show is designed to be an anthology showing how different individuals handle moral issues related to climate change. Episode two is a biologist having conversations with the last whale. Episode three is a rabbi’s spiritual crisis as his synagogue is literally and metaphorically sinking.

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I was ok with it, felt like he'd been through hell and suffered enough. He had suggested turning back, while Sir John overconfidently wanted to press forward, plus he never fit in as an Irishman in the Royal Navy anyways.

Not as if the English would have taken tales of the tuunbaq seriously anyways

for reference and the lazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbiHcrA18w

I literally gave you an answer. Not everyone can afford high speed internet and streaming, or has access to it.

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It literally opened up to my eyes to how great television is.

>You have to get a FCC license, get a building and tower, get the equipment and stuff.

The buildings and towers mostly already exist.

Edit: to expand on this, public TV where I am used to be two channels that broadcast from one tower. Today that tower transmits a public channel and six subchannels. They sold the second channel, so it's now a commercial channel with seven subchannels, and those all broadcast from the same tower. And then low power channel was licensed, and it goes from the same tower with six subchannels. So, two signals to twenty, using the same infrastructure.

I would agree, and the mushroom episode in particular may be even better than the Steve Gutenberg ep, which I always thought was the peak

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> I’ve seen poor people have more access to entertainment devices then anyone else.

The fuck does this even mean?

I think a lot of folks have missed the significance of the fact Crozier is Irish. He is not British, and England is not his home. He is a colonial subject, from a country that was ruthlessly colonised and exploited to prop up the navy he's part of. The exploitation of Ireland's ecosystem for the sake of the British Empire is, at that point in history, on the brink of triggering an apocalyptic famine that will kill about an eighth of the Irish population while food is still being exported, and the Royal Navy was a major priority for those exports.

He doesn't just speak his coloniser's language, he would have to learn to speak it in his coloniser's accent for a chance to succeed within its machine.

He isn't just in hiding from the Naval Officers, he's renouncing his part in what they represent.

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Btw I can't tell if you're aware, but there were reports of a single white man living with some of the Inuit some time afterwards, from both European and Inuit accounts, and that man was speculated to be Francis Crozier, who would have been among the best equipped of the crew to adapt.

https://historyhubulster.co.uk/francis-crozier/

You have got some serious main character syndrome.

Lots of medical communications happen over fax machines. Pagers are still used in places like concrete buildings because cell phones don’t work in there.

It's not much bu there have been 6 times in the 5 years that I have had an HD antenna that the cable went out or something happened where I just grabbed antenna and was able to watched what I was going to miss because it was on one of the networks (mostly sports)

I pay for cable on 3 TV's (living room, bedroom, and basement) and keep the antenna in the guest room with a roku in case anyone wants to stay in there and there's something on the networks they want to watch. And when I first got the antenna I moved into my now wife's apartment and she just had a simple cable plan that came with the unit. She got NBC but it came in kind of fuzzy so I would use the antenna to watch SNL most weeks.

Because it’s free.

So they bought a smart tv? Why? Wasn't the TV they already had working just fine? Do they hate watching TV for free?

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