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Psychology has this concept of thehedonic treadmill.
The theory basically goes like this: Every human has an average level of happiness.
Some people are peppy; some people are dour.
Throw the craziest shit at these four people, and they will go back to their baseline.
Not even the end of the world will have a lasting effect.
Incredibly, Dory and company somehow manage to evade blame yet again.
Most people go to their Dory-inflicted deaths thinking she died like four days before shit really hit the fan.
We start the episode mid-shit-hit.
Thanks to this scene, I have a new phobia: crowd surfing while the crowd undergoes zombification.
Not sinceReturn of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Gravehas the vibe been harshed this brutally.
Elliott and Portia find Drew and Dory, explain the jelly-bean switcheroo (My egomania saved our lives!
screams Elliott) as well as what happened to the rest of the disciples.
You did it again, says Portia to Dory.
Well, he did think Elliott was dead.
They kick this new guy out, presumably to die at the hands of the zombies they created.
Truly stunning how little anyone changes in the face of these dire circumstances.
The four are insular, emotionally incestuous to the point it kills people around them.
Nobody explains the jelly beans to Marc, who eats some that fall out of Elliotts pockets.
Marc doesnt take his imminent death well.
I was gonna go back to school!
Its normal to not let your friends partners feel included!
Drew yells at a dying Marc.
Faced with the consequences of their actions, the crew runs.
Approaching the Williamsburg Bridge, the gang sees Gavin, Chantals ex.
They avoid eye contact as they make their way to the visual-inspection checkpoint to get out of Brooklyn.
Portia has a scrape, which the military decides means shes infected.
This woman has no brain!
one soldier yells, to which Portia yells back, Im just leggy.
As we guessed, Chantal used her wifes bequeathment to become a zombie hunter.
As Chantal explains, time travel is made more difficult by construction.
However, thats still a geocentric model of time travel.
At least Liquorices prepper shit is coming in handy.
Who doesnt like Kind bars?
After getting saved by Chantal, Dory has a brief moment of accepting culpability for ending the world.
She admits to Chantal that the zombie apocalypse is all her fault, but it falls on delusional ears.
And thats always been the thing, hasnt it?
Dory sees her want as the trumping force in the universe.
Want without boundaries, want without logic.
She wanted the jelly beans to work, so she didnt listen to the scientists who said it couldnt.
And now those scientists are dead, and shes still alive because shes Teflon.
New York is allLife After People,and Drew and Dory have gotten married.
Elliott talks about moving to L.A., which is down to around 11,000 people.
As they idly chat, they walk past a wall full of missing posters.
Dory stops, stares, and is able to finally look away.
Lovely little parallel with the pilot.
If shed been able to ignore one missing poster, this wall wouldnt be covered with them now.
Bye,Search Party.You were real even when you were impossibly fake.
But even in season fours kidnapping and gun factories, it was always a world thatcouldhappen.
Does the show lose some of its specificity by going so far from our lived experience?
Or by going further into the apocalypse, doesSearch Partyfutureproof itself?
The real world is getting increasingly less believable.
Maybe this will feel like a documentary by next year.
The moment Elliott sees an acquaintance in Chantals bunker and lies about finally getting coffee sometime soon?
I really hope were not still making plans to make plans by the time were in bunkers.
They should have bagged and tagged Dory before she was able to pass out jelly bean one.
The news labels zombification as an unidentified contagious personality disorder, which is truly a gag.
Show co-creator Charles Rogerss character is called Befuddled Ninny in the credits, and I am LOLing.
