This episode of I’m Standing on 1,000,000 Lives is titled ‘The Journey of Death’, and if that sounds fairly intense, I can confirm that it really does come across as having that level of overt dramatization. This series has never been one to shy away from potentially heavy subjects; it is largely predicated on exploring the weight of human lives, after all. But the sheer amount and concentration of downright dour matters that get heaped on over the course of this episode, in the name of continuing to define what this arc’s plot is going to be, can all feel like a bit much. That doesn’t mean this episode of Million Lives is bad, but simply that you might want to strap in for things to get darker compared to some of the sillier antics the series has primed us with before.
A large part of this comes from how so much of the suffering is specifically piled onto Jezby, the…
