I agree, there's no really viable scenario for a tiny number of rich people to preserve all their wealth and power while exterminating the rest of the population through some covert scheme. The vast majority of wealth is in any case tied to productive capital, which mass automation of labor sans UBI would destroy in a catastrophic deflationary spiral, meaning most of the rich would lose their wealth too as asset prices fell through the floor.

What is more possible is UBI, but even in such a case people will ask questions about why those who happened to be rich in 2025 get to stay rich forever, while everyone else has to be poor on welfare forever.

In practice, the Metropolitan Police handle most of what the FBI handles in the US.

The show is literally filming season 2 in Japan right now. Hollywood Reporter ran a recent interview with one of the EP’s in late October that said filming was starting “next week” (from then). So I think the core cast clearly returns, otherwise they’d have announced. Elgort seems back in polite company, for the most part.

It shows what’s possible with the franchise under competent direction.

It was a poorly crafted attempt at a satire of upper-middle class 'white' American culture, but ultimately ended up both cruel and simplistic, in the sense that what could have been an interesting perspective became muddled and trite.

Yeah it's much better now that they're shed the pretension of social commentary (Knives Out did that much better).

Pancreatic cancer is terrifying. Took my uncle like six weeks after diagnosis, first symptoms a couple weeks earlier (when it metastasized). By the time you find out, you’re a goner - the only people who survive have it detected by luck in a random test.