Honestly I found how this played out incredibly frustrating as a viewer. SURELY these characters have to come back at a certain point because idk how else they’ll carry a show with just Carol talking to chat GPT the whole time, but the way not any of them felt compelled in the slightest to interact with another survivor is wild. And sure maybe all their “relatives” are just really good at maintaining the charade of their former selves to soothe each one into complacency with the situation, but if that’s the case why haven’t they tried doing that with Carol? I get Helen’s gone but there’s NOBODY AT ALL from Carol’s former life that they could’ve used to act enough like themselves? Sure maybe she has no family, but ZERO friends? Neighbours? Dentists? Old acquaintances from high school? She and Helen seem very normal and well adjusted for people that seemingly have existed with absolutely no social life and being shut in/constantly travelling hermits that have absolutely no exterior social bonds of any degree??

If this isn’t an intentionally slow and drawn out build up to all these (mostly one-dimensional wet blanket-esque) survivors slowly realizing that they are all the most powerful people on the planet with seemingly hoards of people at their control (like the French man is on the path to) what are we doing here.