Jason Mantzoukas

He says, will you take this girl on, Fern, as an apprentice?

And then there's this great...

that is, you know... A ruse.

Yeah, a ruse that takes place over many years.

That's the other thing that's great about the show is the show is constantly expanding and collapsing time.

You know, like when they arrive in a village, you know, Freerun will be like, well, we could stay here a little while.

And Fern will be like, what's a little while?

And Freerun will be like, two or three years.

It'll take us two or three years to clear this beach or whatever, you know?

And so you're just really...

It's very kind.

Maybe it's because I am middle-aged and thinking about time so much and time seems to be, to me, speeding up in a way that is really unsettling.

The way that Freerun talks about having time and the way that everybody else talks about not having time is so potent and so heartbreaking.

You know, there's just, it is a, it is a show that is so light and fun, but then about such real heavy, like existential issues.

It's absolutely dynamite.

And it is, like, episode to episode, them going into towns and having to tackle small problems, the small problems, though, that connect them to the people around them.

And that that's what's, and the younger Fern and Stark are constantly saying, why are we doing this?

Mm-hmm.

Why are we wasting time helping these people clear the beach?

And she's like, or why?