What I’m Watching: Hello Tomorrow!

Hello Tomorrow! Season 1, Episode 6 “The Numbers Behind the Numbers” (B+)

I appreciated this opportunity for an expository flashback, one that showed how Jack was fired from his previous job and hatched his scheme after looking out his window and seeing the promise of the sky. Trying to feed his tie into the automatic sink so that it would end up sucking him in too was a dark development that didn’t feel like the Jack we know, but there’s also a clear detachment from reality that Joey was able to see when he confronted Jack about everything and his only response was an overly optimistic “it’s getting realer every day.” Shirley is the one who might be able to save all of them by figuring out a way to sell enough units to pay the old customers back, though she’s likely to change her tune if she learns that Jack is the one who has been lying to her all along. It’s also distinctly possible that their new mark Elle will either not be interested or pull her money when she finds out it’s a scam, and there’s also the emotional impact on people who have become so invested in the idea of going to the moon that, like Mildred, they don’t want a refund. Joel Marsh Garland’s Hank was one such example, and we also saw how Jack has some serious issues from his past to deal with that Michael Paul Chan’s Walt was working on with him regarding the loss of his father. Mildred and Lester are an intense team, and her sincere laughter after being electrocuted suggests that she is extremely intent on taking them down, no matter how much pain the process might cause her.