Pretty funny thing to be typecast as - a mental health counselor - but damn if Scott Lawrence doesn't play the part well with his authoritative yet soothing voice. Might hire him for myself.

I'd forgotten that Johnny Ray Gill was SO good, he and Daniel slip back into their rapport so easily, I teared up a bit.

He's definitely pathetic, but I'll never forgive him for trying to frame Daniel for George's suicide. So to me he's 99% a slimy piece of shit.

All great choices, but disappointed that I haven't seen anyone mention /Blake Lively setting a shark on fire/ at the end of The Shallows. So badass.

"What don't you want?"

Scrolled down until someone mentioned Swiss Army Man. The montage is great, but I also love the scene leading up to it - Dano carefully, painfully reconstructing from detritus the simple experience of riding a bus and watching a pretty girl get on board. Super-creative and one of the only moments that grounds an…

I did think Chloe's therapy request was purposefully stilted; she obviously knew it would be a difficult subject to broach ("this might run you off but…") and had been "thinking about it a lot." I think she suspected suggesting it was a bad idea but ended up doing it anyway.

Yes, I do believe the tapping was to have Louise write on the glass and communicate with them more directly (this seems to be the moment when she finally starts to piece everything together about the purpose of their gift and really starts to utilize it).

This is great, because one reason that Louise ended up succeeding is that she recognized this was not a zero-sum game i.e. that the aliens were offering a tool so that we could in turn help the aliens. Everyone else makes the assumption that the aliens must need something at humanity's expense - either to wipe them…

In either episode 2 or 3, when Ford is relating to Bernard the story of how he and Arnold created the hosts, as part of a flashback, and in a picture Ford shows to Bernard (standing next to someone we now know is the host-Ford-Father in the cabin from last week).

I was totally sold on the plausibility of it happening, but it did seem shoo-horned in via 1 or 2 quick scenes/reaction shots.

Yup! If you remember, in one of Louise's flashforwards[?], she tells her daughter that it's Louise's fault daddy doesn't "look at her the same way" anymore because she told him about a "rare disease," something along those lines.

I love this reading of the heptapods. Good stuff!

Not only that - I don't really believe that Gretchen doesn't think Jimmy isn't or won't be successful. Jimmy already seems relatively successful, has a nice place, etc.

That's from Austin-based band Balmorhea - they are really good, I recommend seeing them live sometime!

Haha I missed that, but of course he would. Good catch!

I'm with you on Teddy - he's really been a shithead in the past, and he's trying /so hard/ but you just don't know if it'll be enough, and you ALSO suspect that if it doesn't work out he might throw up his hands and become an even bigger shithead than before. He's teetering on the edge.

You got it, at least part of it, I think. On top of that Jon just in general views Daggett as part of the Paulie law enforcement crew that threw Daniel in jail in the first place and kept him there, so he's rightfully suspicious. After all, he's also correct in guessing that Daggett knows George Melton tried to talk…

Ooh, no, I think that's a really good catch!

Yea, I caught that too! I actually think this was much more than a throwaway line. I read into that line that genetic engineering is very much a thing in the world of Westworld - which of course creates a ton of parallels with the hosts regarding self-determination, free will, etc.