Ben Lindbergh

Feed yourself the formula.

We don't have to do everything for these babies.

We're going to prepare you for life.

A little tough love.

That's what I'm saying.

Anyway.

Get out of here.

So-

Annie meets her demise at the end of the season, as does the bunker.

I think the other important part that Annie plays, though, is, you know, she learns to trust again.

Right.

Because she's had this tough upbringing and she she expects like she's seen too many post-apocalyptic shows and movies.

And so when Dylan and his crew show up, she assumes that they're there to pillage and rape and kill.

And really, they're not.

They're seemingly pretty nice guys, at least until the end of the season.

So I think that kind of subverts the post-apocalyptic trope a little bit.

But then she has to learn to trust.

She has to open up to X. She ultimately has to entrust her child's life to X. And he shows her through his trust in humanity that people are inherently good, that you can't go through life just expecting everyone is out for themselves and they're going to turn on you.

So that's the more hopeful, optimistic message of the show that she learns and also conveys.

So one of my concerns, I think, for the show was that the bunker is really distinctive, even if it's not unique.