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I thought it was a stronger episode than I read in other posts. I'm mostly impressed with the public knowledge of the chupacabra in 1997 considering the folklore was established circa 1995 in Puerto Rico. It's a relatively new cryptid.

I do wish they had explored the potential cause of the yellow rain and lightning under a cloudless sky. If anyone ever read the YA horror novel Monster by Christopher Pike, it has a similar concept of humans slowly being turned into monsters from micro organisms infected waters. It's a story I've always wanted to adapt to the big or small screen.

The Spanish novella dialogue regarding two brothers pining after the same women and subsequent vengeance plot was enjoyable.

Tuco is ageless.

New construction of data centers(or anything) must include new energy generation construction.

I couldn’t build my new house next to yours and plug my extension cords into your electrical outlet.

Links:

https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/

https://calmatters.org/economy/2026/03/nevada-utility-to-lake-tahoe-find-electricity-elsewhere/

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/lake-tahoe-energy-source-ai-data-centers-b2975802.html

Nearly 50,000 people on the California side of Lake Tahoe are about to lose the bulk of their electricity supply, not because of infrastructure failure or mismanagement, but because Big Tech wants the grid.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, told Liberty Utilities (the small California company that services the region) that it will stop providing power after May 2027. The reason is NV Energy needs the capacity for data centers being built by Google, Apple, and Microsoft around the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of Reno.

That’s 75% of Liberty Utilities’ power supply, gone in less than a year, affecting roughly 49,000 customers. And residents aren’t just worried they’re furious.

“It’s like we don’t exist,” said Danielle Hughes, a North Lake Tahoe resident, CEO of the nonprofit Tahoe Spark, and a supervisor within the California Energy Commission’s Efficiency Division.

Data centers already consumed 22% of Nevada’s electricity in 2024, and that share could climb to 35% by 2030. Twelve data center projects in Northern Nevada alone could drive 5,900 megawatts of new demand by 2033. That’s the system that feeds Lake Tahoe getting systematically redirected toward server farms.

The situation is made worse by a regulatory no-man’s-land. Liberty is a California-regulated utility, but its grid sits inside NV Energy’s balancing authority, connects to NV Energy at 38 points, and relies entirely on Nevada transmission lines.

California regulators can’t force Nevada to keep the lights on. Building a direct connection over the Sierra Nevada mountains would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and bring significant land impacts.

Residents also point out that electricity prices have already risen about 77% since late 2022. Now they’re being told to wait while their utility scrambles to replace three-quarters of its power supply by next spring.

The Sierra Club’s Tahoe Area Group and Tahoe Spark are pushing back, arguing that a decision of this scale (affecting 49,000 customers on an isolated grid in a high wildfire risk area) demands a full, transparent regulatory proceeding, not an expedited fast-track process.

I know it's only primetime science fiction and conspiracy theory shenanigans but it's rather prescient considering the current mainstream media fear mongering lol. Thoughts?