Maybe. But it’s exactly the kind of thing that might work in a surrealistic short film that doesn’t have to contend with an ongoing mythology linked with franchises and assorted properties. Or even just from a consistency point of view, as we see both David and Farouk do things (teleport at will across any distance,…

Robots who look like women but with mustaches, a guy with a basket over his head

also let’s not forget he also tortured someone with a power drill in the last episode.

I think the reason it is losing viewers because this season is just weird for weird’s sake. Last year the weirdness was explained by it all being in David (or the other’s) minds, so some surrealistic imagery made sense. This season seems to be veering into pretension. Robots who look like women but with mustaches, a…

Jesus. You’re illiterate. He’s not saying it did, moron. He’s saying the reviewer wasn’t as horrified at Syd’s character for it.

It was just an unrelated minotaur who happened to be in the area and thought he could offer his perspective on the matter at hand.

Whataboutism is a specific method of deflection to excuse ones wrongdoing, not a get out of jail free card whenever someone points out a hypocrisy. No one, the show included, is arguing that David did a good thing, or even a right then, let alone implied that Syd “deserved it”.
 
Yet at the same time, “My girlfriend…

Also interesting that Syd shooting David with a gun didn’t provoke any reaction out of this reviewer.

I find it extremely ironic and somewhat absurd that your review is obsessed with the sexual assault angle and sees that as an ultimate black-and-white signifier of what kind of person someone is regardless of any other complexities of this situation and the person involved (of which there are many, including most…

The Syd’s head episode was the worst because the whole episode was a lie. he tries to understand but she tells him “Look again” so he does, and the audience does, and it never makes sense... because they never showed him or us anything that would begin to insininuate what they were trying to get to at the end. The…

So, couple things...

I’ve been upset about that since it happened, and it was infinitely worse than what David did. Dude gets sent away as a pedophile, not to mention traumatizing her mother.

That was one of the most bizarre hypotheticals I’ve ever come across, and one in service of such a mundane point that didn’t really need an illustrative example in the first place.

To be fair, Syd also raped her mother’s boyfriend and got him sent to prison for it. David raping Syd is also horrible. They are both questionable figures. I think Farouk is right that what David did was wrong, and Syd will forever hate him for it. The truth is that David is the villain and Syd with Farouk will have…

Do I.........do I need to watch Out of Africa?

It’s interesting that Syd’s experience with her mother’s boyfriend didn’t seem to provoke a similar reaction out of this reviewer.

David’s turn into villainy is SO narratively unearned though, and has happened in the span of what, 2 episodes? Now I really want to rewatch Breaking Bad so I can remind myself what a good “descent into darkness” narrative looks like.

OMG, I just realized—they didn’t have one of those damn Jon Hamm psychology 101 segments this week. And I don’t think I remember anyone else commenting about them. Probably because no one missed them in the slightest!

Yeah I’m with you on that... I keep waiting for Cary or Kerry to have a significant moment, am still mourning Ptonomy whom they somehow managed to make even more inconsequential than he already was, and most of all Oliver was so much more fun last season when he was an actual character instead of a zombified avatar.

Plus, as the review noted, pretty much anybody’s actions but David’s and Farouk’s, and to some extent Syd’s, are totally irrelevant. This makes the other characters feel like they’re there just to occupy space. I didn’t get this impression last season.