Ben Lindbergh

And, you know, there are political allusions and resonances here.

And Betty invokes the Weevil famine.

And Reg says, we don't want to hear about the Weevil famine anymore.

And, you know, someone...

pipes up.

It feels good to hear someone finally say that out loud.

It's like, you know, they've been through traumatic events.

It's like when people bring up the pandemic, you know, and we don't want to talk about the pandemic anymore.

We don't want to think about any of this.

We just want to grab our jello and stuff it into our mouth for added emphasis.

Right.

So, you know, and there's this kind of othering of Betty and, you know, you 31ers are just plum different somehow, which, you

again, is often, you know, populist leader.

There has to be a boogeyman.

There has to be an outsider.

Now, in this case, Betty is actually an outsider and the 31ers are different and there actually is a conspiracy.

So there's actually some merit to this in this case, but it's, you know, an old power grab.

playbook blueprint time-tested.

So I don't exactly know where this is going, but I have faith that it's here for a reason and that we have to trust in the writers and creators that they're going to land this storyline somehow.

And a couple episodes from now, we'll say, oh, that was why that was there and why we spent all this time.