They'd be weaker if taken apart, just making them sleep in separate rooms (on the pretense of therapy) is a blow to them. You're positing a need for active resistance, but that's not always how these mental illusory traps work. Sometimes the resistance is dissonance, distraction, sudden realization. A glitch in the…

Why did she put him in a coffin, and put Sydney to sleep?

She/it is trying for omniscience, that's the whole idea behind becoming everyone's bad therapist, only her attempts at mental torture were being rebuffed at every turn. She/it wiped out Amy's mind, but the others remained all too distinct and idividual, in pursuit of their own goals.

I share your uncertainty and your love. But Faye's era was the rebirth of documentary verisimilitude in cinema, so I think she always tried to keep it real, while the direction was heightening everything cartoonishly, a clash of sensibilities .

No, I'm not a big western person; Westworld only got me because : robots!!!

I find them very amusing; of course they say petty, obvious things, they're meant to be the gossips and nosy neighbors quarterbacking the train wreck that unfolded among the community pillars.

Of course she lied, she didn't need a decorator.

But that's just the editing: guns, cars, running, cliffs, the beach, we're not always sure who or where.

I remember her now! The lawyer's wife on Jessica Jones , the one given cruel orders by Killgrave to slice up her wife.

"Are there weapons in the home?" Could have been the alternate title of the episode.

When Perry cries at the airport, you almost get the feeling that … his over-reactions to mundane events are as extreme when he's happy as they are when he's mad.

You don't? That even in her fictive dream world, they were pursuing their own agendas and obsessions, not so directed by her? I think of it like the virtual world being used on Agents of SHIELD; if there are glitches or too much information that seems awry, the hypnotized start to wake up. Syd had that bedroom door to…

Cracker Barrel does. Usually overcooked.

I keep thinking of California Suite, and all the backstage emotions of Maggie Smith's character almost but not quite winning.

Totally, that's exactly what Lange is doing. Faye's mistake (if there was one, arguable) was to play her so very very straight; you have to have a little dreaminess and detachment to get at the particular way that Joan (not Carol, not Heddy, not Norma, not Myrna, not Greta) was larger than life, even at home among her…

Crystal always got her way, and looked great doing it (until Mary fought back, finally), so I think it's reasonable for Hedda to encourage Joan to get her claws out, rather than pussyfoot around Davis.

No, it was the rough trade's mistake; you could see Victor just go "yeah, sure, that'll work" as they headed down the stairs.

White hydrangeas! Because pink or blue would be just too much?

Pre-emptive backlash. Maybe Zelda really is that much better, as a holistic player experience.

You mean like whether Link masters a musical instrument? Because the background soundtrack is one of the best so far, and definitely defines each new place as unique.