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THANK YOU. I thought I was alone with finding nearly everything perfect with this season except for it's use of music. The scoring is great. But goddamn, these songs with high in the mix vocals and blunt lyrics are a buzzkill to every scene they appear in. So out of place with everything else that they've constructed…

You make a great point that she has self-sabotaged most of her relationships in one big selfish play for unrealistic gains.

I want to steal that home.

The house scenes mostly take place at night. But they also have the moodiest, warm, calming lighting out of most of the locations. I don't see it as depressing at all. It's actually the safest place in the entire show.

The scariest thing is that her friends are very realistic. Everything about those girls are toxic, but that doesn't make it untrue.

I agree that it's lazy writing. While yes, they ramped up Laura's obsession in this episode due to it intersecting with desperation. That's still not enough for the home invasion to make sense. It seems clear that they needed a way to make this confrontation happen and have it feel intense. To me, a better approach…

Emmy isn't trying to shake Alex. She's attempting to normalize the concept of an open relationship and is approaching it via the "fun" aspect: adventurous casual sexual encounters.

I can't recall any single episode of TV, aside from the Carnivale pilot, that so effectively established a bunch of characters and the world they're in.

Looking back, it's strange that the pilot almost positions Alex in the main protagonist role.

For me, the Randy encounter was the worst part of this episode, and possibly the series so far. It started fine, but quickly fell out of reality and into movie logic. It felt like from something else entirely. Delivering a "here's what wrong with me" monologue to a stranger was not the way to show that Valerie was…

He's unintentionally trying to drag them down. It's clear that he has to bring people down to his level of depression. The most dangerous thing about it is how honest he's being. The actions aren't taken with direct malice. He's unfiltered AND sees life through a nihilistic lens.

I reallllllly hope in season 2 that they either retcon Laura's age or do a time jump. The actress is just so obviously older. I can't shake it. Everything about it is wrong, and is going to make the likely teacher-mother dating drama hard to believe.

Well, the scene in the developing room with the hug is *the* moment that Michael realizes that she's pulling a Lolita move. Or at the very least is pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable.

The discussion about him killing her if not for the stipend read as only a half joke.

God, I hope he dubs this trailer too as Jiz.

I do believe I kept it vague enough to not be any sort of spoiler.

The cigarette ash into the cup scene is my everything.

And Red with Norma's reunion. It's just that all of those things happening in the same scene lessens their impact for me, and most of those experiences could have happened at any point in the episode. The only thing that needed to happen at the lake was Black Cindy's conversion, and the general distraction while the…

Yeah, ~20 minutes of splashing around in water while looking giddy isn't the best use of running time if so little is actually changed during this scene.