<p>It&#8217;s getting to be quite the crowded apocalypse for our man Phil Miller, who&#8217;s now hardly humanity&#8217;s last man and maybe not even its last hope? Thanks to <em>Some Friggin&#8217; Fat Guy</em>, our formerly last human being on earth&#8217;s the fourth wheel of a small (and growing) tribe of suburbanites. It&#8217;s hard being the odd man out and maybe harder still to call <em>The Last Man On Earth</em> a show of its word when there&#8217;s now enough of them to fill an entire <em>American Idol</em> judge panel. But it&#8217;s easy to say that <em>Last Man</em>&#8216;s still got its heart.</p>
<p><strong>Spoilers Follow</strong></p>
<p>This episode, Phil has one big new problem and his name just so happens to be Todd: our friggin fat guy in question. At first it seems like Phil should be grateful for not having some Hollywood hunk to contend with. But beauty&#8217;s in the eye of the beholder, as is Tom Hanks&#8217; filmography. Todd, as it turns out, is a really swell guy – so swell, in fact, that Melissa&#8217;s got eyes for him over our self-obsessed Phil. He&#8217;s smart, he&#8217;s funny, his favorite film&#8217;s <em>The Shawshank Redemption</em> (excellent choice, Todd). And the man&#8217;s a walking sympathy machine at the cost of one kidney. Beat that Phil.</p>
<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05014238/Last-Man-On-Earth-Some-Friggin-Fat-Guy-Todd-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-79917 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05014238/Last-Man-On-Earth-Some-Friggin-Fat-Guy-Todd-BagoGames.jpg" alt="Last Man On Earth 'Some Friggin Fat Guy' Todd BagoGames" width="300" height="174" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s ironic that Phil&#8217;s problems have evolved like they have over the span of however long this series has lasted. Self-obsession certainly suits the essence of being, well, the last man on earth. And now Phil&#8217;s demotion to the second last man on earth – and second best next to Todd – has essentially challenged who he really is, and lately, that&#8217;s basically been a jerk. Humanity finally has a chance of surviving again (maybe). But all Phil can say to Todd upon his arrival is, “So you need directions or something?”</p>
<p>As it relates to the future Miller household, Todd&#8217;s presence sure serves as a quick fix to any of its <a href="https://bagogames.com/threes-crowd-last-man-earth-dunk-skunk-review/">incestuous prospects</a>, but what it doesn&#8217;t do is calm any of the urges in Phil&#8217;s pants for one Melissa Shart. It&#8217;s all the better that it&#8217;s a fat guy indeed who puts Phil in his place, because for several episodes now, Phil&#8217;s been flirting with douche-hood. Humility, it seems, is unbecoming of a man used to living totally alone.</p>
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<p><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05012443/Last-Man-On-Earth-Some-Friggin-Fat-Guy-Phil-Spying-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-80202 size-medium" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/05012443/Last-Man-On-Earth-Some-Friggin-Fat-Guy-Phil-Spying-BagoGames.jpg" alt="Last Man On Earth 'Some Friggin Fat Guy' Phil Spying BagoGames" width="300" height="174" /></a></p>
<p>While the whole affair proved to be humanizing for both Phil and Melissa – even her meeting Phil&#8217;s spherical companions – doesn’t result in some Hollywood embrace between the two. Melissa tells him plainly that the feeling is not reciprocated. Unlike the movies, Phil&#8217;s &#8220;You&#8217;re the only one for me&#8221; speech did a lot more for his own breakthrough than winning him an adoring Melissa, and that&#8217;s appreciated in a series that&#8217;s done too much to deserve clichés. But really, <em>The Godfather</em>? Surely Phil must appreciate <em>Castaway</em> a lot more by now.</p>
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<p>We can thank Carol&#8217;s oh-so-subtle &#8220;double-date&#8221; for a wonderfully awkward and unwittingly endearing couple in Todd and Melissa, one which will hopefully never demand the service of &#8220;vomit soup.&#8221; Their whirlwind romance of go-cart racing and playing real golf in a miniature golf park probably reiterates my though of their desperation at getting the electricity back up and running, but it certainly spotlights<em> Last Man</em>&#8216;s admirable ability to conjure up the most bizarre bonding moments, shirtless tennis and all.</p>
<p><a href="https://bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Last-Man-On-Earth-Dunk-The-Skunk-Phil-Out-BagoGames.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-79867 size-medium" src="https://bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Last-Man-On-Earth-Dunk-The-Skunk-Phil-Out-BagoGames-300x174.jpg" alt="Last Man On Earth 'Dunk The Skunk' Phil Out BagoGames" width="300" height="174" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s all a wonder where <em>Last Man</em> goes from here. With the big man in Melissa&#8217;s life, surely it won&#8217;t be about Phil&#8217;s stalking Melissa any longer. If <em>Last Man</em> is more a question of masculinity now than existence, than it&#8217;s safe to say that the show&#8217;s underhandedly defined it beyond facial hair and ego. Todd&#8217;s arguably the heart of gold in the series and what Phil&#8217;s road to redemption means now. Kids? <a href="https://bagogames.com/last-man-earth-raisinballs-wedding-bells-review/">A real presidency</a>?</p>
<p>In all of its typically atypical ways, <em>The Last Man On Earth</em>&#8216;s continuing to find ways to reinvent itself in all but the most subversive ways. Its originality now not withstanding, I think I&#8217;m beginning to enjoy the series almost as much as <a href="https://bagogames.com/the-last-man-on-earth-series-premiere-review/">when it first premiered</a> and it&#8217;s hard to speculate about just how far these changes are going to go. If Tuscon&#8217;s on the brink of being flooded with more Todds or Melissas as it probably is by account of Phil&#8217;s &#8220;Alive&#8221; signs, than it&#8217;ll be interesting to see where Phil really will fit back into a world that ever did rebuild itself. I can only hope it&#8217;s just as fun as this one.</p>
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<p><em>The Last Man On Earth</em> airs Sunday night on FOX at 9/8 Central. Catch all the latest episodes at FOX.com and all the latest reviews here at <a href="https://bagogames.com/knight-living-dead-dark-souls-prepare-die-edition-review/">BagoGames</a>.</p>

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Get Busy Liv’in – Last Man On Earth: Some Friggin Fat Guy Review
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By Tim Gruver
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