Seaon 1 Episode 5: Got Milk
Air Date: November 26, 2025
Synopsis: Carol doubles down on her investigation—loneliness be damned. Meanwhile, howls in the night reveal a new source of danger.
Directed by: Gordon Smith
Written by: Ariel Levine
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The CGI was so bad this episode. The blurred rooftop scene, the wolves — they looked completely unrealistic. With 15 million per episode, they could have either hired better graphics artists or used real animals. This episode broke something for me. Like… I can see now that Gilligan isn’t perfect.
I thought of Soylent Green the moment Zosia revealed that 800 million people (10% of the global population) died during the conversion. It seems like a logical step to use them as food rather than bury useful nutrients. I personally wouldn’t care, but it would be hilarious if this fact ended up helping Carol gain support from a few people who are still unaffected. “You consume the consciousness and personality of people? We don’t care. You consume the flesh of people? No, no, no, you can’t do THAT.”
Question, though: is it even possible to turn flesh into this kind of grain/dust/powder? Why not just eat the flesh directly—make “human jerky” or something like that? I mean… as humans we don’t consume or produce meat in the form of liquid or dissolvable powder; it’s too hard to make and not very feasible. Why did they decide to make it a powder specifically? Just for the plot? Really strange, considering Gilligan’s love for science and chemistry.
The CGI was so bad this episode. The blurred rooftop scene, the wolves — they looked completely unrealistic. With 15 million per episode, they could have either hired better graphics artists or used real animals.
I guess if you ignore the plot and acting, you pay attention to this.
On the last part: I guess they would extract essential nutrients from bodies and other sources like fruits and vegetables and process them into a powder with much longer shelf life and ease of storage.
Edit: and I would add that it looks more like crystals, isn’t it?
In retrospect, it definitely has to be either some sort of nutrient mix, or maybe additional doses of viral culture (maybe humans actually do generate antibodies that need to be periodically overwhelmed with re-exposure). But it had me wondering why Zosia would be drinking milk in the hospital while also hooked up to an IV, it’s not as if she needed the fluids from it.
Could be that this is what most everyone eats now, and the “coffee” we see her drink on her own in episode 2 is just more of this stuff. It had me wondering at that time if the afflicted would actually still bother wanting to enjoy food and drink like people do, or if they opted for absolute pragmatism and bare essentials only. Seems like the latter may indeed be the case.
Thoughts:
- Rhea Seehorn can totally carry an episode by herself. That was pretty epic in and of itself.
- The drone fail 😅
- I found it interesting how “they” firewalled themselves from Carol by only communicating by recording and interacting via drones. Carol definitely seems to have spooked them.
- Granted, she did drug and nearly kill one of them so can’t blame “them”
- I wonder what was on the second take of the second video we saw her record?
- I’m sad I didn’t wait a bit longer to watch this episode because it’s going to be even longer before we ind out what she found at the food packaging plant.
I hope Carol will do collab with the greatest vlogger of all time, Lalo Salamanca.
It was quite a leap to go from powder bag to dog food factory.
Maybe next episode will have more reveals, so if Carol saw dead bodies it will be the smallest of surprises awaiting us.
It’s gotta be wild to be dumped by the whole planet, that message they recorded for her that played every time she called was too much lol.
I expected she would have just asked to shorten that message so that she can get to them faster :D
That was my same thought. After hearing that recording a second time, my second request would have also included “…and leave a shorter recording”.
Her face at the end there was amazing. I am so anxious for the reveal of what she saw. What do you guys think? Is it a soylent green situation? I feel like that would be too expected.
I think it could be a Soylent Green misdirect, but only because I want to believe that Vince Gilligan is smarter than spelling out the twist this way. Until we find out more next week my guess is the bodies are being Aqua cremated. How the milk cartons are involved is anyone’s guess.
The Others constantly talk about efficiency and they never are seen burying the dead, just taking them away. So dead people are recycled, because burying perfectly good meat is waste.
It is so fricking thrilling, such a cliffhanger! Really looking forward to the discovery, hoping that it won’t be the obvious
Sorry for the late post, I thought this episode would release on friday 😅
I’m late here, just watched E5. I can think of nothing else to give Carol the shock reaction than human remains of some sort. Yet I sense she has the wrong idea somehow.
I bet we’ll have to wait awhile to find out. The title card for E6 has the Mauritanian guy on it, and this episode was almost entirely Carol.
Was that Howard (Patrick Fabian) from Better Call Saul on the voice recording in the beginning?? IMDb doesn’t list him here, but it sounded just like him.
It’s def his voice
