Andy Greenwald

We don't need you to digress.

get who this is this person like a product of nepotism because her father is a big dipwig in the party or what's going on especially because they make the bold gambit of having her be the backup plan to Yann Akhmatova who is a firecracker in her limited screen time in the pilot um

Especially here in Lithuania.

Whoa.

I think she was right to call attention to it.

Yeah, I completely agree.

And, you know, there's even more detail in those scenes in the apartment where, what's her name, Irina is seeing for the first time the physical, the set of her favorite radio drama.

And she's smelling the perfume that she knows was purchased in Paris.

Yeah.

And she's being taken out of it, not just in the sense of like future scrubbing, but she's hearing the conversations that played in her mind only in this place.

And it's really dissociating and powerful.

Because we started with a quasi love letter to NBA fandom.

Sure.

I need your help on this.

I need you to use the sports half of your Grantland binary brain.

Who is the most, in your opinion, maybe even in this finals, like the most, and I feel like it's probably someone on the Knicks, like the most old school player who is not going to trick you and not dazzle you.

Josh Hart.

Right, is just going to go at you and it's going to be basketball.

Josh Hart.

And that's Star City to me, especially in the third episode, where there is nothing in the mechanic... I mean, the setting and the fact that within each episode they can do a tense Apollo 13-esque space drama is remarkable.