Top of my list:

Kudos to the foley artists for their usual excellent, stomach-churning work. I especially want to highlight the moth-wings-against-glass - such a tiny individual noise, but they became almost deafening in aggregate and neatly underscored the tension of that scene.

You are not the only one - I had only heard the 10,000 Maniacs version before tonight.

Yes but that's comparing apples to oranges.

"Lucille Bluth when Gene Parmesan takes off his disguise" would be an accurate way of characterizing my reaction.

I liked the writing and adored the performances in this episode (as always, Kidman and Weigert's scenes were top of the heap), but I found the direction entirely overwhelming and distracting. So many quick cuts! So many silent montages interrupted by earsplitting sound cues! Just dial it back a little, guy.

Vulture ran a long (and excellent) feature before the premiere which included some details about a set visit. They kept it vague but I think we can pick up some clues:

Yeah that was my read - that Lenny is trying to further destabilize David by casting his sister as an enemy after forcing the truth about his adoption out of her last week. (See also: the leitmotif of a warm female voice calling David's name and saying "my boy, my beautiful boy," here perverted into Lenny coldly…

Madeline didn't describe it as assault, though - Celeste said "he assaulted you."

I didn't know that I could actually make the literal :/ emoji with my own face but boy, "I really love sweat on women" did the trick.

YES! I hadn't heard that song in years but it was in heavy rotation on my ipod about a decade ago; I recognized it immediately and it's back on my playlist as of five minutes ago.

Fantastic episode, from the shade-throwing at NBC to the rest of the high points noted in the review. I also want to highlight the great dress Diane was wearing with that chain - giant metallic textured paisley? It was killer! So happy to see Elsbeth back, AND to see that the writers have stepped back from that…

I hadn't noticed before, but in this episode it seemed like the Shadow King is wearing the tattered remains of the World's Angriest Boy's suit. And I think they're both sharing a sense of artificiality - the Boy looks and moves like a stop-motion puppet, whereas the Shadow King is in that rubber mask/early CGI Uncanny…

The episodes are lengthy enough, but there aren't enough musical montages.

HARRY IS THE MURDER VICTIM.

Slight tangent here, but "mania" is such a perfectly accurate description. I'm assuming Jessa and Adam are both still in recovery and neither has relapsed, but wow do they become dry drunks when they're together - every interaction is just them spinning each other further up into an increasingly manic state. Yikes.

One thing that jumped out at me: every time Syd flashes on the memory of David in bed with Philly, she sees the World's Angriest Boy immediately after. Love paired with terror, reflecting the empathy/fear framing of the episode (and it makes sense given her abilities, too).

"Beat poetry? More like I'll beat you… poetry…"

Not the most inspired episode, but I have to bump it up half a grade for the following features:

I've never loved the Latin Lover Narrator more than when he sneered, "I can assure you: it is nothing like the real Monte Carlo."