It's a joke, right? A rib on Jordan Peele? My guess is that it costs the network too much money, so someone has replaced every other episode of this season with something so utterly awful that the show gets cancelled. That's the only explanation for this half-written nonsense episode.
At an Antarctic exploration platform, a group of scientists led by Orson Rudd (Joel McHale) is investigating changes in Ice depths bringing different deep sea creatures nearer to the surface. When a pair of divers fail to return on time, suspicion points to an Octopus species that they have discovered, but they have no way of knowing just how intelligent their discovery really is.
OK, so, from a technical standpoint this episode actually looks quite good. Though the geography of the base is occasionally a little wonky, it's a convincing set and the CGI Octopuses when they appear look quite good. But everything else about the episode is awful, or in some case unintentionally hilarious. One thing not funny is Joel McHale, given that he's such a natural comedic performer the straight and series role as the lead scientist is another time this series has wasted its talent. Nadia Hilker, from "The Walking Dead" is also in it as, slightly bizarrely is, Tim Armstrong from the band Rancid.
I can understand, I think, the genesis of the episode. The idea that Cephalopods are more intelligent than we previously thought has been in the news, and their ability to do fine manipulation of objects is comparable to ours. They are also capable of editing their own RNA, put this together and you get this one hacking an Iphone to learn about DNA research and then taking over the world. It is, a bit of a stretch, to state the case mildly, and it's not sold by the dull and oddly told story where nothing much actually happens. At one point the Octopus narrows its eyes, whilst throttling a human, which was a genuine laugh out loud moment.
Decent special effects and nice "The Thing" references aside, this was a comically badly written episode. I can live with outlandish premises - in fact TZ episodes probably should have them, but the dreadful non-story that led from this one can get in the sea.
At an Antarctic exploration platform, a group of scientists led by Orson Rudd (Joel McHale) is investigating changes in Ice depths bringing different deep sea creatures nearer to the surface. When a pair of divers fail to return on time, suspicion points to an Octopus species that they have discovered, but they have no way of knowing just how intelligent their discovery really is.
OK, so, from a technical standpoint this episode actually looks quite good. Though the geography of the base is occasionally a little wonky, it's a convincing set and the CGI Octopuses when they appear look quite good. But everything else about the episode is awful, or in some case unintentionally hilarious. One thing not funny is Joel McHale, given that he's such a natural comedic performer the straight and series role as the lead scientist is another time this series has wasted its talent. Nadia Hilker, from "The Walking Dead" is also in it as, slightly bizarrely is, Tim Armstrong from the band Rancid.
I can understand, I think, the genesis of the episode. The idea that Cephalopods are more intelligent than we previously thought has been in the news, and their ability to do fine manipulation of objects is comparable to ours. They are also capable of editing their own RNA, put this together and you get this one hacking an Iphone to learn about DNA research and then taking over the world. It is, a bit of a stretch, to state the case mildly, and it's not sold by the dull and oddly told story where nothing much actually happens. At one point the Octopus narrows its eyes, whilst throttling a human, which was a genuine laugh out loud moment.
Decent special effects and nice "The Thing" references aside, this was a comically badly written episode. I can live with outlandish premises - in fact TZ episodes probably should have them, but the dreadful non-story that led from this one can get in the sea.