Also, I love how Laura was incorruptible no matter what she did, or what was done to her. The embodiment of goodness and light, who was raped by her father, did coke and fucked around and prostituted herself. Maybe because she sacrificed herself, I'm feeling some kind of Jesus-like metaphor tucked in there.

I wonder, if the Giant/Fireman hadn't intervened by sending Laura to Earth, if the offspring of Leland/BOB and Sarah/DARKNESS would have been, like, THE MOST EVIL THING. Kind of like the Antichrist. Instead, Laura's pure goodness stopped whatever would have happened.

So Sarah Palmer was the little girl in Part 8, and she's possessed by whatever hatched and crawled into her mouth. Married to Leland, who was possessed by BOB. That's a lot of possession for one house.

Not sure it's a SAG rule — it's something actors contractually negotiate for, both placement in credits or special additions like "and [x] as [role]" or even "introducing [x]" (source: worked in talent agency on such contracts)

I thought the same, and then realized he CAN act, after he showed some wonderful subtlety in the scene with Albert (ep 4?) where he turned his hearing aid all the way up and discussed the blue rose aspect of "Coop" returning.

Kate McKinnon surely broke because she couldn't believe dat accent.

Only SOUTHERN CA does that. NorCal would rather die.

Whoever handed him the wrong envelope

Gold. This is gold.

I thought the quick (though justified) firing was the least realistic part of representing the corporate machine. Do they know how much friggin' documentation and action plans actual corporations would require?

Nope — she went to Bryn Mawr. (Wellesley grad here.)