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** Luke is engaged in a long-term affair with Scarlett-while his wife is ''pregnant.''
** This is one of the symptoms of bug infestation-a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected-Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]
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**YourCheatingHeart: Luke is engaged in a long-term affair with Scarlett-while his wife is ''pregnant.''
** This is one of the symptoms of bug infestation-a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected-Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]''
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** This is one of the symptoms of bug infestation-a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected-Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]
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* DivideAndConquer: When they get him forcibly drunk [[InVinoVeritas so he'll be truthful]], a bug-infected man explains the bugs make people become more extreme in their views so they'll fight each other to a greater degree, and make it easier for them to conquer humanity.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The name of each episode sounds like it could be the title of a book written by a political pundit ("Wake Up Grassroots: The Nine Virtues of Participatory Democracy, and How We Can Keep America Great by Encouraging an Informed Electorate," "The Power of Euphemism: How Torture Became a Matter of Debate in American Politics," etc.)
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** Another one occurs (atypically) at the ''beginning'' of the episode "The Power of Euphemism, etc." We see a bug exiting Red's ear, but it's not tiny like an ant. It's the size of a wasp, which must mean ''the bugs are growing''.
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** Another one occurs (atypically) at the ''beginning'' of the episode "The Power of Euphemism, etc." We see a bug exiting Red's ear, but it's [[spoiler: not tiny like an ant. It's the size of a wasp, which must mean ''the bugs are growing''.]]
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* TortureTechnician: Agent J. K. Cornish is a mild examples. He's cheerful (which at first makes it all the creepier) reluctant to use [[InsistentTerminology "enhanced interrogation techniques"]] and happily lets Laurel go when the authorization doesn't go through. He also admits he's been through all of them in his training, which probably helps his reluctance. Even so, he believes they're necessary at times.
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* TortureTechnician: Agent J. K. Cornish is a mild examples. He's cheerful (which at first makes it all the creepier) reluctant to use [[InsistentTerminology "enhanced interrogation techniques"]] and happily lets Laurel go when the authorization doesn't go through. He also admits he's been through all of them in his training, which probably helps his reluctance. Even so, Still, he believes they're necessary at times.
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* TortureTechnician: Agent J. K. Cornish is a mild examples. He's cheerful (which at first makes it all the creepier) reluctant to use [[InsistentTerminology "enhanced interrogation techniques"]] and happily lets Laurel go when the authorization doesn't go through. He also admits he's been through all of them in his training, which probably helps his reluctance. Nonetheless, Even so, he believes they're necessary at times.
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** Senator Chuck Hodges may be one to John [=McCain=]. He's a Republican and war hero who opposes torture, but unlike [=McCain=] isn't willing to vote against it.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: The "enhanced interrogation techniques" the FBI almost uses on Laurel, such as immersion (which is ''not'' waterboarding, as it [[LoopholeAbuse uses slightly less water]]). Jack Bauer himself is name-dropped in support during the Senate committee debate on the issue, in a reference to the late US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doing this (which is ''also'' mentioned).
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* IntimateHealing: Laurel tries a number of things to [[spoiler: get the bugs out of her head]], until finally having sex with Gareth does it.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Gustav mentions this to Rochelle when [[spoiler: Laurel gets infected by the bugs.]]
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* {{Leitmotif}}: "You Might Think" by Music/TheCars is basically the Space Bugs' theme.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: "You Might Think" by Music/TheCars is basically the Space Bugs' theme. [[spoiler:There's a good reason for this. Slow the song down by 16x, and it matches the sound of background radiation from the Draco constellation - a fact that turns Rochelle onto believing the bugs are extraterrestrial.]]
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* GenreBusting: The show's a Sci-Fi Horror ConspiracyThriller {{Dramedy}}.
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Laurel when the lead scientist who discovered the space bugs [[spoiler:gets his brain blown up by the Space Bugs.]]
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* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Laurel when the lead scientist who discovered the space bugs [[spoiler:gets his brain blown up by the Space Bugs.them.]]
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* GrammarNazi: People hijacked by the Space Bugs have been shown to be this.
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* GrammarNazi: People hijacked by the Space Bugs space bugs have been shown to be this.
* InfantImmortality:Lampshaded, {{Lampshaded}}, of the pet variety, when a cat is infected with the space bugs.
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* {{Irony}}: When Red and Ella are racing to stop the vote which would suspend the government shutdown, they come to get on the Capitol Hill subway... only to find it's closed due to said government shutdown.
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* MeaningfulName: Red Wheatus is a Senator with the Republican Party, whose main color is ''red''.
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* PeoplePuppets: What the people who are getting hijacked by the Space Bugs end up becoming.
* NighInvulnerability: The Space Bugs are so far shown to be immune towards bug sprays and while squishing them may render them immobilized, they seem to have a surprisingly good knowledge of bug CPR...
* PeoplePuppets: What the people who are getting hijacked by the Space Bugs end up becoming.
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* MeaningfulName: Red Wheatus is a Senator senator with the Republican Party, whose main color is ''red''.
* NighInvulnerability: TheSpace Bugs space bugs are so far shown to be immune towards bug sprays and while squishing them may render them immobilized, they seem to have a surprisingly good knowledge of bug CPR...
* PeoplePuppets: What the people who are getting hijacked by theSpace Bugs space bugs end up becoming.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Luke, Laurel's brother, while having vices, is actually a legitimately nice person who tries to get legislation through that will benefit as many people as possible. Key among these is when [[spoiler: he pulls a massive IndyPloy and undoes the government shutdown, throwing a serious [[SpannerInTheWorks wrench in the space bug's plans]].]]
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* PsychicAssistedSuicide: The bugs have Abby kill herself rather than be taken into custody by Anthony to get examined.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Luke, Laurel's brother, while having vices, is actually a legitimately nice person who tries to get legislation through that will benefit as many people as possible. Key among these is when [[spoiler: he pulls a massive IndyPloy and undoes the government shutdown, throwing a serious [[SpannerInTheWorks wrench in the spacebug's bugs' plans]].]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Luke, Laurel's brother, while having vices, is actually a legitimately nice person who tries to get legislation through that will benefit as many people as possible. Key among these is when [[spoiler: he pulls a massive IndyPloy and undoes the government shutdown, throwing a serious [[SpannerInTheWorks wrench in the space
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** Luke is engaged in a long-term affair with Scarlett- while his wife is ''pregnant.''
** This is one of the symptoms of bug infestation- a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected- Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]
* YourHeadASplode: What happens to anyone whom the Space Bugs believe may [[HeKnowsTooMuch know too much]] or might get in the way of their plans.
** This is one of the symptoms of bug infestation- a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected- Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]
* YourHeadASplode: What happens to anyone whom the Space Bugs believe may [[HeKnowsTooMuch know too much]] or might get in the way of their plans.
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** Luke is engaged in a long-term affair with Scarlett- while Scarlett-while his wife is ''pregnant.''
** This is one of the symptoms of buginfestation- a infestation-a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected- Anthony's infected-Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]
* YourHeadASplode: What happens to anyone whom theSpace Bugs space bugs believe may [[HeKnowsTooMuch know too much]] or might get in the way of their plans.
** This is one of the symptoms of bug
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* WhamShot: The end of Episode 5. [[spoiler: The bugs, having been hiding in the bouquet of cherry blossoms Anthony gave Laurel, crawl out of it, onto her bed, and into her ear. The last shot of the episode is Laurel waking up suddenly...]]
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* BerserkButton: Luke looks like he's ready to punch out Red's lights when the latter accuses him of using a photograph of the niece of a war veteran as leverage to advance an alleged presidential campaign. In short, don't accuse him of trying to help people for his own personal gain.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Luke, Laurel's brother, while having vices, is actually a legitimately nice person who tries to get legislation through that will benefit as many people as possible. Key among these is when [[spoiler: he pulls a massive IndyPloy and undoes the government shutdown, throwing a serious [[SpannerInTheWorks wrench in the space bug's plans]].]]
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** This is one of the symptoms of bug infestation- a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected- Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]
** Luke is engaged in a long-term affair with Scarlett- while his wife is ''pregnant.
** This is one of the symptoms of bug infestation- a lack of intimacy and sexual fidelity, which is why Scarlett agrees to sleep with Luke, and [[spoiler: is another sign that Anthony is infected- Anthony's beaux knocks on his door as Gustav and Laurel try to draw out the bugs in his brain.]]
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* {{Expy}}: A few characters seem to be expies of characters from the series creators' previous series, ''Series/TheGoodWife'':
** Laurel and Gareth bear striking similarities to Alicia and Will (minus the two decades of emotional baggage). Laurel is the heroine with a dry sense of humor and a soft spot for the voiceless who hates politics but is actually not half bad at them when her family sucks her in. Gareth is the vaguely amoral power player with a streak of romantic idealism that clashes with his ambition and pragmatism- but with a good heart underneath it all.
** Rochelle is similar to Lucca, as the professional partner-turned-best friend to the heroine, highly intelligent and capable, very kind and one of the only people whom the protagonist genuinely trusts.
** Although Luke is Laurel's brother, where Peter was Alicia's husband, both men are family members who drag the heroine into the political world, who are wildly ambitious and manipulative, and whose extramarital affairs cause no end of trouble for all parties involved.
** Laurel and Gareth bear striking similarities to Alicia and Will (minus the two decades of emotional baggage). Laurel is the heroine with a dry sense of humor and a soft spot for the voiceless who hates politics but is actually not half bad at them when her family sucks her in. Gareth is the vaguely amoral power player with a streak of romantic idealism that clashes with his ambition and pragmatism- but with a good heart underneath it all.
** Rochelle is similar to Lucca, as the professional partner-turned-best friend to the heroine, highly intelligent and capable, very kind and one of the only people whom the protagonist genuinely trusts.
** Although Luke is Laurel's brother, where Peter was Alicia's husband, both men are family members who drag the heroine into the political world, who are wildly ambitious and manipulative, and whose extramarital affairs cause no end of trouble for all parties involved.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Luke is engaged in a long-term affair with Scarlett- while his wife is ''pregnant.''
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-->''"My God, you monsters, not the cat!"''
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* ActorAllusion: in the pilot, Laurel says she [[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld used to have pink hair.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} What's eating Washington?]]]]
'''[=BrainDead=]''' is a sci-fi horror Political Thriller Dramedy series airing on Creator/{{CBS}} from Robert and Michelle King, the creators of ''Series/TheGoodWife'' and executive produced by Creator/RidleyScott.
Laurel Healy (Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead) comes from a family of politicians, but she couldn't care less about politics and is more interested in her career as an aspiring documentary filmmaker. But when funding for her newest one goes south, her father offers to pony up $200,000 to her on the condition that she takes a 6-month job in the office of her brother, Senator Luke Healy (Danny Pino).
But things get bizarre when a meteor is discovered in UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} and is sent to the United States, because this meteor actually houses a large colony of ant-like aliens who seem to have a penchant for both relieving important people like Senator Red Wheatus (Tony Shalhoub) of their brains and taking control and setting the brains of others to explode, lest they get too suspicious of the Space Bugs' plot.
Slowly, but surely finding out the truth, Laurel finds herself going to war against this extremely pesky AlienInvasion, with the fate of the US government and pretty much the rest of America hanging in the balance. Can she do it without literally losing her head, be it by hijacking or straight-up exploding?
Has absolutely '''NOTHING''' to do with the Creator/PeterJackson [[Film/{{Braindead}} movie]] of [[NamesTheSame the same name.]]
!!The series has examples of the following tropes:
%%* AlienInvasion
%%* BigBad: The Space Bugs.
%%* BlackComedy
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Laurel when the lead scientist who discovered the space bugs [[spoiler:gets his brain blown up by the Space Bugs.]]
* GenreBusting: The show's a Sci-Fi Horror PoliticalThriller {{Dramedy}}.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "You Might Think" by Music/TheCars is basically the Space Bugs' theme.
* MeaningfulName: Red Wheatus is a Senator with the Republican Party, whose main color is ''red''.
* NighInvulnerability: The Space Bugs are so far shown to be immune towards bug sprays and while squishing them may render them immobilized, they seem to have a surprisingly good knowledge of bug CPR...
* PeoplePuppets: What the people who are getting hijacked by the Space Bugs end up becoming.
* PreviouslyOn: The series likes to use a [[SoundtrackDissonance disturbingly upbeat]] song to recap the events of the previous episode. What's more, these songs are written and sung by Music/JonathanCoulton, better known to video gamers as the man behind [[VideoGame/Portal1 "Still Alive"]] and [[VideoGame/Portal2 "Want You Gone"]].
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The tone is kind of all over the place in this department...
* YourHeadASplode: What happens to anyone whom the Space Bugs believe may [[HeKnowsTooMuch know too much]] or might get in the way of their plans.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} What's eating Washington?]]]]
'''[=BrainDead=]''' is a sci-fi horror Political Thriller Dramedy series airing on Creator/{{CBS}} from Robert and Michelle King, the creators of ''Series/TheGoodWife'' and executive produced by Creator/RidleyScott.
Laurel Healy (Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead) comes from a family of politicians, but she couldn't care less about politics and is more interested in her career as an aspiring documentary filmmaker. But when funding for her newest one goes south, her father offers to pony up $200,000 to her on the condition that she takes a 6-month job in the office of her brother, Senator Luke Healy (Danny Pino).
But things get bizarre when a meteor is discovered in UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} and is sent to the United States, because this meteor actually houses a large colony of ant-like aliens who seem to have a penchant for both relieving important people like Senator Red Wheatus (Tony Shalhoub) of their brains and taking control and setting the brains of others to explode, lest they get too suspicious of the Space Bugs' plot.
Slowly, but surely finding out the truth, Laurel finds herself going to war against this extremely pesky AlienInvasion, with the fate of the US government and pretty much the rest of America hanging in the balance. Can she do it without literally losing her head, be it by hijacking or straight-up exploding?
Has absolutely '''NOTHING''' to do with the Creator/PeterJackson [[Film/{{Braindead}} movie]] of [[NamesTheSame the same name.]]
!!The series has examples of the following tropes:
%%* AlienInvasion
%%* BigBad: The Space Bugs.
%%* BlackComedy
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Laurel when the lead scientist who discovered the space bugs [[spoiler:gets his brain blown up by the Space Bugs.]]
* GenreBusting: The show's a Sci-Fi Horror PoliticalThriller {{Dramedy}}.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "You Might Think" by Music/TheCars is basically the Space Bugs' theme.
* MeaningfulName: Red Wheatus is a Senator with the Republican Party, whose main color is ''red''.
* NighInvulnerability: The Space Bugs are so far shown to be immune towards bug sprays and while squishing them may render them immobilized, they seem to have a surprisingly good knowledge of bug CPR...
* PeoplePuppets: What the people who are getting hijacked by the Space Bugs end up becoming.
* PreviouslyOn: The series likes to use a [[SoundtrackDissonance disturbingly upbeat]] song to recap the events of the previous episode. What's more, these songs are written and sung by Music/JonathanCoulton, better known to video gamers as the man behind [[VideoGame/Portal1 "Still Alive"]] and [[VideoGame/Portal2 "Want You Gone"]].
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The tone is kind of all over the place in this department...
* YourHeadASplode: What happens to anyone whom the Space Bugs believe may [[HeKnowsTooMuch know too much]] or might get in the way of their plans.
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