I love in the penultimate episode of Devs how Stewart is reciting the Philip Larkin poem in the tech temple tunnel. And as the head honcho mopey tech bro passes and is asked about it, the disdain with which he treats knowledge of history and art is subtle yet completely effective without being didactic.

So well done, and so apropos to our times. Great poem, too. I had not read “Aubade” since high school. What a lovely work when read aloud well.

Perfect scene, and of course the deeper allusion is to Charon, the ferryman, who shuttles souls into the world of the dead. Because after all, fate was seen by the Greeks as horrifying and inescapable. There’s a reason the word “fatal” means deadly now.

Just a beautiful and terrible (in the 14c. sense) few minutes of television.