Worth pointing out: the "it was actually noop noop" joke twist reveal doesn't change the fact that sober-Rick THOUGHT it might be Morty who was the answer to the final puzzle. Which means all the things he confessed under the pretext of a hypothetical (feeling insecure about Morty liking the Vindicators more than him…

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They subtitle something when the language barrier is relevant to the plot of a scene. When it isn't, their dialogue is "dubbed" in English. Pretty much that simple. It's the same way dubbed anime has always handled it when English-speaking characters encounter Japanese ones.

Like those dead pirates they used to hang outside port-towns.

Aaaaghhh, I *LOVE* the cinematography in this episode. I have never seen shots like this. Whole scenes of exposition with 6-8 actors involved, and the camera never once leaves Clive's Owen's face. That's BONKERS!

No, I agree. That's well-put.

That's the whole point: to remind you that despite being bad-ass enough to track down and tackle Typhoid Mary, in accordance with the strictures of the time, Cornelia HAS no agency. All her power and authority extends from her role at the Knick, which extends from her father. Like Algernon's, her authority can vanish…

And I don't think Thackery gives two shits about the prestige coauthoring that paper or perfecting the previa surgery brings, except insofar as it's fuel for the further advance of Knickerbocker Hospital and medicine itself.

House will be the go-to comparison for the rest of foreseeable fiction. He managed to land the archetype of the "mad doctor" in precisely the right way that allowed it to take root in public consciousness. He is now the character people think of when someone says "mad doctor" the same way you think Sherlock Holmes (or…

"Why aren’t they telling these guys to stop eating peach melba?!"

I love, love LOVE how Molly and Gus *became* Marge and Norm from Fargo. Such a full-circle moment. Like you could just feel the writer snickering and going, "NOW do you get what we were going for?"

She went from "hot dog, we got him" to "son of a bitch, we lost everything" in the space of a single sentence. It hit her in the parking lot like a sack of bricks.

Even if that's not strictly true in an absolutely literal sense, it is DEFINITELy the intention of the writers. Malvo is fucking Satan. His name is fucking MALVO! If there's a more evil, demonic-sounding, Faustian-flavored name than that, I've never heard it.

The kid didn't "happen" to beeline to the secret floorboard. He was there when Abe stuck the book in for the first time (and, presumably, subsequent times since).

Why the hell was that crowd chanting "God Save England"? WHAT England? England doesn't fucking exist yet! How did no one on the Vikings writing staff catch that? That's kind of a major fuck-up, considering the whole premise of the show is the Viking invasion of Britain!

Agree on all counts

This very review expresses concerns that the visions signify the intrusion of supernatural elements into the show.

That was a common punishment back then for heinous crimes.

The one is Ubba. He'll be a pretty big deal, down the line.

His dogmatic beliefs in Christianity—drilled into him over the course of a lifetime and a monastic career—are clashing with his sincere love of the Viking people and (most aspects of) their culture, which are still fresh in his mind. The "visions" are just the show's way of depicting this internal struggle. People…