That mid-scene hard cut to black was wonderful. Reminded me, in the best way possible, of the ending of A Serious Man. Thank you, Sam Esmail.

I believe the opening music is from Bernard Hermann/Hitchcock.

I found the series to be almost soul-crushingly repetitive, from the "will various family members want Danny to stay or not," will Danny stay or not, to the endless haggling about the will.

Yay, Judge, thanks! I figured that the inclusion of Dan would narrow the field.

Got it. How about Max, Tyler, Joe, Dan?

If I can still get in on this action, I would love to get either: Tyler, Max, Joe, Jenn or Max, Tyler, Joe Jenn. (It seems that order counts.)

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You are correct, lookatthisguy. This is all (as in, everything) happening in Michael's brain as Michael lies in a coma or has his brain hooked up to life support (see Source Code).

I'm now convinced that the whole ritual of Trump announcing, "…and the winner (of the task)  is…" and cutting to a commercial is nothing more than Kabuki theater because the task sponsors have agreed to let Trump choose the winner.

Eh, have it on in the background while you perform other tasks that require full attention.

Agreed. Albert did what he could; Sophie, not so much.

I think that Savaii blames Cochran for his defection but they also blame Coach, and for that reason will not vote for him FTW.

I also am having a problem with people's admiration for Sophie. It was a major fail that she refused to participate in a 5-way blindside with the two remaining Savaii players. She, Albert, Cochran, Dawn and Whitney could have run the table and broken Coach's death/god grip on the game. 
And then last night she wanted…