I think that's what this episode seems to indicate, but it cuts against so much of the cosmology that we learned in earlier seasons and FWWM. Is the Leland/BOB saga just a giant misdirect? I hope this much gets resolved before the show ends.

This is clearly the best inference based on all we've seen, but then how does she give birth to Laura, who has repeatedly been presented this season (and in this episode) as absolute, angelic good? (Something which seems strange to me given the things Laura was up to before she was murdered.) I have loved this season,…

Who were they? I was totally mystified by them.

Her whole behavior is strange. She ignores him to swat the fly, then cries meaninglessly after being told it was no big deal, then ignores him/treats him disdainfully. It's like Opposite Day!

I've been thinking about this all season. Like in A Clockwork Orange, the ultraviolence, when it happens, is sustained too long for you to just wince and turn away. It's piercing through your comfort zone as a viewer and going beyond the horrific to make you have to watch it. I can't tell if it's just DL communicating…

That was my sense too - it clearly was able to host by the radio intervention of the Woodsmen, who we know are evil, so it has to represent some manifestation of evil. Not Laura.

I want to believe. They show glimmers of the S1 greatness now and again - maybe even flashes of humor or the soliloquies - and it gives me hope. But then the tedium kicks in. I fell asleep in almost every episode of last season and fell asleep during this one too. I want the "comeuppance" arc to start just so we see…

Did you see the other DT supporters in this post? They're here.

VEEP seems to be more attuned to how the current political situation is playing out than House of Cards.

FINALLY, someone mentions this! Yes, that was bizarre. Did someone compare this to what Hank had drawn all over his office?

Well, sure, there are allusions, but when you say it was "primarily inspired" by it… A Serious Man has no violence in it, unlike pretty much every ep of Season 1 of Fargo? They just seem totally different to me in tone and aim.

It's like A Serious Man in that all the scenes are set in the physics department and the kid's bar mitzvah…? Yes, I think you're misremembering.

Lol. Btw, +1 for the esoteric Dan Clowes avatar!

The Wire is a better show, no question, but BB has a lot more more immediacy and effective emotional manipulation of the audience. It is much more relatable to most people, I think.