One of the cleverest things about the Apple TV+ sci-fi epic Foundation is the way the series has figured out how to have familiar faces reoccur, even when the show jumps ahead a century. We’ve got an immortal robot named Demerzel (Lara Birn), an AI version of Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobel), and a human version of Hari putting themselves in cryosleep. But the best way for characters to keep popping up through the various centuries of Foundation is easily the clone emperors of the Cleonic Dynasty: Brother Dawn, Brother Day, and Brother Dusk.
Since Season 1, Cassian Bilton, Lee Pace, and Terrence Mann have played these clones respectively, and in Foundation Season 3’s first episode, “A Song for the End of Everything,” we find this trio in a state we’ve never quite seen them in before. In almost all ways, Foundation Season 3 has flipped the script on the nature of each clone emperor, especially the middle, ruling clone, Brother Day. In the previous centuries of Season 1 and Season 2, Brother Day has generally been a bloodthirsty dictator. But, in Season 3, this Brother Day clone is basically Lee Pace’s take on the Big Lebowski.
