I made the connection before the titles came up, but it was still a goosebumps moment. I really enjoyed this! I think the reviewer was unnecessarily harsh…

I hadn't been keeping up with any of the press/promo for the show, so when Carrie Coon showed up… well, actually, when she first showed up I just didn't recognize her, all bundled up in that hooded parka. But when I recognized her I started practically hopping up and down in my seat. Weekly double helping of Carrie…

{slow clap}

That first scene had me more thinking "The Lives of Others"

Cheryl is currently filling the femme fatale client role that Katya would most naturally fall into… though if you're gonna noir why not have multiple ffcs?

Speaking of Fargo and The Leftovers…

Yeah… I was thinking drag king until they showed future-Poovey with male pattern baldness, now I'm just letting the delightful genderfuck be a delightful genderfuck

I kept expecting all the syphilis humor to lead to a(n anachronistic) "please clap" joke

Ka-kaaaw!

HOW DOES HE STILL GET WORK!?

SAME!

Ceremonial burning of the wig after every breakup… only way to go

Oooooh, it's an acronym now!

I liked how the (generally not terribly likeable) boss reveals that he has Stan's back. I kept expecting that to be Stan's takeaway when he told Renee the story: "I never thought he would have my back like that. I didn't think he was out to get me or anything, but I wasn't expecting him to go to bat for me."

Never for a moment. I hate what is happening to her, my heart breaks for her at least once an episode.

"Oh, she's the anti-Martha!" was my exact reaction to that scene too. It was the moment she snapped into focus for me as a character beyond just a mark. At first I was wondering how Philip would work her if she wasn't the needy one, but he seemed to do fine scoring some dry-as-bone-but-ultimately-useful spreadsheets

"If the left wants a liberal Captain America, why can't they just make one up!?"

It was ambiguous. I don't think it was meant to imply that the followers were killing themselves earlier. The smaller congregation seemed to imply that the incorrect predictions were losing the preacher followers. Including, eventually, the woman's husband. The bit at the end, like I said, was ambiguous. Whether or…

I was more expecting the camera to pan up to her electrocuted corpse, six of one…

Matt's story about the calf brain hallucination was the bit that had me laughing out loud. The burning bush asking him (in Spanish) to put it out? Comedy gold, Jerry!