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Like any continuation of a fantasy/sci-fi franchise, the second season cannot match the world-building revelations of the first.

But in this age of expensive and overwrought world-building, it’s Ellison’s experiential care with well-worn material that delivers the goods.

You’re doing some world-building, which to me seems like a requirement of pop stardom in the 2020s.

In its bleakly funny mix of world-building by way of world-decaying, it memorably reclaims the term “suspended animation,” and is resonant enough to win.

“Individual backstories and world-building is something that happens in the rehearsal process with the actors,” Busenlener says.