Phil Vs. Phil – The Last Man on Earth: ‘Moved to Tampa’ Review

<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s official&colon; someone must hate Phil Miller&period; After &&num;8220&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;say-sorry-the-last-man-on-earth-pranks-for-nothin-review&sol;">three wonderful weeks of marriage<&sol;a>&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Phil&&num;8217&semi;s finally a free man&period; A divorcee with two women at his disposal&comma; the sky&&num;8217&semi;s the limit for a record hour of Phil&&num;8217&semi;s life since the apocalypse&period; But if one man can make a difference&comma; than all it takes is another man to ruin it all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Spoilers Follow<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There only seem to be two kinds of Phil Millers&colon; jerk Phil to sad Phil&period; Neither have aged well as the series has gone on&comma; but at least it&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;holy-cow-the-last-man-on-earth-mooovin-in-review&sol;">a change of pace from the rut<&sol;a> the series has felt like it&&num;8217&semi;s been spinning its wheels in the majority of the time&period; Well&comma; aside from the whole being one of the last seven known people alive on Earth luck&period; That’s actually pretty lucky&comma; as is having not one&comma; but two women to choose from&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Still&comma; Phil winds up getting stuck on billboard platforms erasing his past&period; The resulting mishaps this week are marginally amusing and there’s no doubt that much of the joy of this show comes from seeing bad things happen to Phil&period; But he also got back to some of his old habits&comma; like some satisfying destruction &lpar;paint in a wood chipper&excl;&rpar;&period; I like this kind of Phil a whole lot better than paranoid stalker Phil&comma; but that there&&num;8217&semi;s only two to choose from is the kind of &&num;8220&semi;either or&&num;8221&semi; ultimatum that&&num;8217&semi;s not helping to expand him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05003439&sol;Last-Man-on-Earth-Moved-to-Tampa-Phil-and-Gail-BagoGames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-81689 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05003439&sol;Last-Man-on-Earth-Moved-to-Tampa-Phil-and-Gail-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Last Man on Earth 'Moved to Tampa' Phil and Gail BagoGames" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"174" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s another turn of bad luck for Phil&comma; any chance he seemed to have with Gail and Erica appears to now be out the window with the arrival of a new hunk&comma; who happens to – in a rather convenient twist – also be named Phil Miller&period; This was the guy we thought Todd was going to be&comma; strong&comma; handsome&comma; nice&comma; knowledgeable&period; This is the Phil Miller the world needs&excl; Which is why plain old regular Phil Miller will henceforth be called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tandy&period;” For that matter&comma; who&&num;8217&semi;s this &&num;8220&semi;Jessica Tandy&&num;8221&semi; Carol asks about&quest; Could Phil and Carol be related after all&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Moved to Tampa<&sol;em> basically reverses every bit of progress the series has finally made up &&num;8217&semi;til now and even its twists&comma; for the first time that I&&num;8217&semi;ve been watching it&comma; have gotten stale&period; Phil chasing every woman he comes across&comma; obsessing over his novelties&comma; getting introduced to new survivors  – all of them have just become their own cliché by now and that our other Phil Miller&&num;8217&semi;s so square-jawed and reserved makes for more of a bland opposite than the amusing funhouse reflection&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s no one left for Phil to play off of but himself and sitting alone moping seems to bring the series full-circle&comma; but we&&num;8217&semi;ve already heard this joke before&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05003529&sol;Last-Man-On-Earth-Moved-To-Tampa-Butt-Pancakes-BagoGames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignleft wp-image-81685 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;05003529&sol;Last-Man-On-Earth-Moved-To-Tampa-Butt-Pancakes-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Last Man On Earth 'Moved To Tampa' Butt Pancakes BagoGames" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"174" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the world&&num;8217&semi;s revolved around some Phil Miller or another&comma; it was interesting to know how Todd and Melissa are doing as a couple&period; It was rather nice to see lovable Todd actually feeling dejected and then jealous about their relationship without being a troll about it&period; Melissa just can’t say the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;L” word&comma; no matter how many heart-shaped butt pancakes Todd makes for her&period; Honesty is really the best policy even in the apocalypse and it&&num;8217&semi;s nice to know that at least one guy out here&&num;8217&semi;s willing to apply it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After so many thought-provoking forks in the road&comma; it really feels like <em>The Last Man on Earth<&sol;em> is beginning to at its wits end with <em>Moved to Tampa<&sol;em>&period; In an episode that began with a toast to Phil and Carol&&num;8217&semi;s future&comma; this episode was all about setting them back another deprecating notch for no reason I can imagine than just wasting time until whatever our finale is about&period; Another guest in town didn&&num;8217&semi;t help reconstitute what&&num;8217&semi;s amounted to little more than I guess Phil might just want to think about that move – for real this time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>The Last Man on Earth<&sol;em> airs Sunday nights on FOX at 9&sol;8 Central&period; Catch all the latest episodes at <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;fox&period;com&sol;the-last-man-on-earth&sol;the-last-man-on-earth&sol;full-episodes">FOX&period;com<&sol;a> and all the latest reviews here at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com">BagoGames<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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