It might be necessary to keep those scenes to tell us something about Carol’s character or about the Plurbs themselves (they might have thought about shortening the message but didn’t, and Carol might have asked them to shorten it but didn’t either). Or they included the voicemail scenes simply to mischievously annoy the viewer.

Honestly, I’m fine with either. I was annoyed the second and third time she listened to the voicemail, but now I kinda like it. It’s funny that they keep including these scenes.

As an ADHD person that watched (until I found it too boring) a lot of The Walking Dead in 2x speed, I kind of see what you mean, but…never in this show I felt the need to skip anything (only when I rewatched episode 2 to convince my wife to stick with the show after she noped-out at the end of the pilot, I had to skip the seizure scenes to keep her attention long enough to make her interested in the mysteries they introduced. I’m not proud of the manipulation. But she’s a Plurb too now, so, eh, ends, means, you know)

Whenever something drags for too long, I look around. The sets have a level of detail and care that few other shows enjoy.

The only thing annoying me is that I would have a list of question as long as my leg, and she’s not asking the right questions. That ain’t solved by fast forwarding, though.

It certainly is driving me crazy that Carol isn’t asking for them to shorten their voice mail message when she’s clearly annoyed by it.