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What class are you in? (I wrote my senior thesis on Breaking Bad. Don't know if you could do the same with this show.) btw another commenter had a good idea re: the cliffhanger. Kill Abraham at the end of last season,THEN kill Glenn at the beginning of this season. It'd make for a great fakeout, even if it's still

I watched it first because I like Mackenzie Davis and she's never let me down. I'all be keeping an eye out for whatever she's in (Always Shine looks great)!

No love for the poor sap consistently failing to hit on Mackenzie Davis? Surely he's this episode's emotional equivalent of Barb …jk he got to play DDR with Gugu so it's all good. Also how can you be mad when you see they are OBVIOUSLY THE MOST PERFECT COUPLE EVER FIGHT ME.

He did?! No wonder it was so damn beautiful

They're very different books. That's what I love about the series; every book is very different from the last.

It was like the scene last season where Elliot had his "what's in the box?!" moment with Shayla in the trunk, except stretched out into infinity. And I thought *that* was a masterful buildup of, if not necessarily suspense, then overwhelming anxiety.

I didn't think it was possible to maintain tension for *that* long! Pretty much the entire second half of the episode was wonderfully tense, in large part due to the editing and that amazing score hammering away in the background,slowly increasing in volume, connecting all the disparate scenes to a remarkable finale.

You probably enjoy the 1975…

There are a few memorable songs (Freedun is my first "I'm old enough to know that I'm listening to M.I.A. song beside Paper Planes obviously" M.I.A. song, and I quite enjoy it) but there's a part in the middle where her rapping becomes very monotone and repetitive and it all just starts to blur together. At least I

It's on Amazon Prime people! :D

I found the tonal dissonance fascinating. It was at once intimate, and sprawling, using Naz's situation to ask really big questions, sometimes maybe too big, but I give it props for trying. It's right in the titles: you'd think a naturalistic show like this would avoid biblical sounding titles like "Samson and

I always saw the off-center framing of character's heads as evocative of how individuals are almost afterthoughts in the new world where the Internet makes us all webbed and bound together and therefore a giant collective entity.

He's not literally in the bathroom(at least we don't think!); it's just the mental image he projects/visual cinematic language to represent that he's not mentally present when Mr. Robot's talking to the others.

It makes zero sense story wise, but thanks to you I'm shipping Angela and Dom!

It makes zero sense story wise, but now I'm shipping Angela and Dom!

I like the "I don't care how my hair looks" look!

How could they forget Bob Loblaw, attorney at law with Bob Loblaw's law blog??

True, and shared universe stuff has been around since Lovecraft (pretty sure that's correct?), but I feel like some creators take those old ideas from specific sources. For instance Damon Lindelof is a self proclaimed big fan of the Dark Tower, and the ending of Lost proves that he had the same idea in mind for his

"At least he's reading!"

Is it just me or is the Dark Tower a secret huge influence on a large portion of the storytelling world? The whole notion of ka, the circular storytelling, the shared universe mythos, etc.