Chris Ryan

And so they've shown themselves as able to guide shows.

I think they definitely have like

It feels... Yeah, and I was almost surprised watching these first two episodes.

So just as like a brief... The logline is, in a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don't have, dot, dot, dot, time.

This is basically set at a Villages-esque... Yeah.

but with maybe a few MAGA-inclined seniors who are trading STDs.

I don't know if anybody has ever seen The Village's documentary, but it's quite a thing.

The show opens with a very, like, amblin'd-out set piece with Dee Wallace, who people will know from E.T.

and Ed Begley Jr.

and what seems to be an alien and lots of hints and lots of Easter eggs and stuff.

And then turns into a really well-observed movie

occasionally amusing, really well acted given the cast.

Show that is basically like fine for 45 minutes and then has in each episode like a pretty... What the fuck?

Yeah, last five minutes.

And so the Duffers know what they're doing.

Uh, Alfred Molina plays the main character, Sam Cooper, who's a widower who's just moved to the boroughs.

Alfred frigging Woodard plays an ex investigative journalist who is living there with her husband, uh, art who is played by Clark Peters from the wire who plays like a stoner who's kind of just doing yoga and playing golf, but also some other stuff.

Um, Dennis O'Hare plays a terminally ill resident of the facility.

And then Gina Davis is somehow qualifying for senior citizen now.

So, um,