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[maracuyas]

im 4 episodes into jury duty: company retreat and i cannot explain how bad i feel for anthony not because of how terrible and out of pocket his experience is at this company but the fact that he is. matching their freak bar for bar and LOVING it. he is having the best time and is being genuine and feeling like he’s making real connections at this company. and none of it is real. that’s the truly terrible part of this show

[maracuyas]

i think while santos has done a lot wrong vis a vis the langdon situation what she said about the effect its had on her experience in the pitt is very real. some dude screams at you day one for mistakes Hes been making and then you discover hes been stealing meds from your workplace yeah id feel a little vindictive too. then he comes back like its nothing and everybody is all chummy with him??? and acts like You did something wrong??? id be livid ngl

[livnothewson]

THE PITT (2025-) 2.12 | 6:00PM

[maracuyas]

ok but trinity thinking about self harming and then dennis appearing out of thin air and asking if shes ok. something no one has asked her all day. like thats her person he legally cannot move out

[maracuyas]

god i love when a sad pathetic lesbian has a sad pathetic man best friend i love it

[maracuyas]

the only thing i am taking from this episode is that whitaker and santos are best friends who watch tv together and braid each others hair and do face masks and talk about their deepest darkest secrets and probably make avocado toast together or some shi

[maracuyas]

imagine seeking validation from the woman ur romantically involved with and she was like pls only speak to me if u want to fuck and or eat ramen. frankly id become obsessed

[maracuyas]

the toxic hr violation situationship pitt yuri was strong w this one

[thewarriorssun]

Michaela being a woman actually elevates the show for me. I could not bear losing the perfect husband John we have spent the last two seasons with, and then having to settle with yet another emotionally stunted male rake. Michaela though? That's interesting! It's something we haven't seen before! Composed Francesca losing her mind over this woman and having her entire world view crushed on top of the grief they are both experiencing? The guilt of being together in Johns shadow on top of internalized comphet guilt? Oooh, I am seated.

[silly-geesei]

what if you were having a BAD DAY at WORK and then your LESBIAN SITUATIONSHIP said NO FIREWORKS DATE let’s keep it CASUAL and then you got invited to a FURRY CONVENTION

[maracuyas]

genuinely the trinity hate kind of boils my blood because her character is so important and yet people dont seem to understand and it is 1000% because she is a gay woman. weve been shown her kindness over and over again but because she is traumatized and a little reactive (traits that you people would go feral over if she were a man) she is deemed unlikeable. trinity is a good person and objectively likable yall just balk at complex female characters

[maracuyas]

trinity santos is like. shes hot headed. shes callous. shes traumatized. shes a little pathetic. shes conceited. shes a lesbian. which for me personally makes the best character of all time

[r4diumgirlz]

has anyone heard of the left/right game?

[geetimesthree]

this show has a chokehold on me.

[maracuyas]

i hate the hivemind i hate the hivemind i hate the fuckass stupid dumbass fucking dumb stupid ass hivemind

[maracuyas]

carol having sex with zosia is weird even if zosia did initiate it because zosia as the hivemind is like. everyone. and also commandeering a body that doesn’t belong to them. amplified by carol ODing the same body she later has sex with. albeit in one case trying to save the world, and in the other under an immense amount of pressure and manipulation, there are lots of consent issues. i have a feeling real zosia won’t be too pleased with all this and will honestly be traumatized in the aftermath.

there is no but or however, just an acknowledgement of the grey area that carol sturka lives in. because i don’t think carol is necessarily thinking about it too hard, or she is actively trying not to. she can acknowledge that mr diabaté is fucked up for what he’s doing but because of her lack in an active role within her exchange with zosia, can’t apply that own logic to herself. especially because she can’t help but individualize hivemind-zosia, see her as a single entity that loves her, as the last bit of helen left on this earth. she acknowledges the real zosia as an existing entity, but refuses to even think of the concept of zosia being straight— and the hivemind appeases her by following her lead in using gender neutral pronouns.

here is the unfortunate reality: it is very likely that zosia is straight because otherwise the hivemind would have just used she/her pronouns. it is also hard to see carol as a violater because of how intensely the hivemind manipulated her into seeing zosia as, essentially, helen. but zosia, the body of zosia, the human being of zosia, has the least amount of agency in this situation. has no agency whatsoever. and i am so excited to see how this show addresses that

[featherquillpen]

Speaking for myself, the part of the Pluribus finale that made me absolutely foam at the mouth was Manousos trying to reverse the joining. Before he did it, he warned the hive. He asked the hive what the name was of the person he was trying to un-plurb. He sat by him and put his face near Rick's face and told Rick, tenderly, to please come back.

This hit me like a ton of bricks for a few reasons. One, we've seen Manousos's conviction in spades, but we've never seen him show care for another person. That moment showed that Manousos doesn't just abstractly care about saving the world. He sees the person in front of him, Rick, and wants to save him. It also hit me hard because the rest of the episode made it clear that Carol had, at least temporarily, lost this ability to look at the hive and see the real Zosia who had been stolen away from her life just like Bri the waitress was stolen from her life.

Manousos is not a mere zealot. He cares about other people and he wants something better for them than this.