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Babies are born, couples get together and separate, and people lose their jobs and get other jobs.
Its a blessing, this sense of inevitable continuity.
As in,Thats all, folks.
And when its firing on all cylinders, it plays like a fusion ofThis Is UsandChildren of Men.
(An early reference to the 2008 crash positively screams foreshadowing.)
(Where Im going, theres no life or death, only data, she says.
I will be data.)
And thats clearly where things are headed.
Pop, he says.
Whatever we had, we punctured it, and now its all collapsing.
The juxtaposition of the epic and mundane is the point.
This is a broad-strokes diagnosis of a species in existential crisis.
Its meant as a warning about whats happening in the present moment.
Its the miniseries as Snapchat message.
Rosies neighbor asks Edith, Arent you supposed to be dying?
Well, I mean, Edith replies, arent we all, in the end?
