The Beautiful Annihilations Of Yesteryear

“Reminding myself that the anxious, muddled present is just one of an infinite number of unlikely outcomes for the planet turns out to be a pleasant way to drift off to sleep. I find the most apocalyptic episodes to be the most therapeutic, especially when they end, as they often do, with jokes. Hearing jagged fragments of today’s news and culture in any of the shows’ thousand may-be worlds affirms the value of vigorously imagining the worst: The stories that worry most vividly are the ones that have aged best.”
 — It’s funny because it’s true.