Doctor Odyssey Gets Attacked By Shark (Yes, Just One): How Dead Are They?

Also, how bad was Gladiator II, really?

I wasn’t going to cover our intrepid nautical Doctor Odyssey nitwits this week, because the Shark Attack episode is a two-parter that doesn’t finish until tonight, and I should withhold judgment until the rest of it airs. But then I thought, well, since when am I reasonable with when and how I judge things? And maybe it’s MORE important to hang out together today and discuss how this show is simultaneously a) burning through plot, and b) doing so in the dullest way possible. And still with the fewest characters.

As a reminder, we decided the pilot of this show was only enjoyable if one assumes everyone on the Odyssey is dead and being ferried to the afterlife by our Leads in Purgatory. Turns out we were not the only people with this theory; it made the rounds from a variety of sources, which goes to show how obvious it is. The show has backed off several of the obvious Easter eggs to this effect, either because we were wrong or because they’re hacked off that everyone figured it out to…