wow. I am so use to snark hereabouts I figured your first words were sarcasm. I am a reluctant participant to online forums, a sensitive skinned one who usually avoids them via disliking the unwarranted dickishness that abounds. I know there's smart convos going on, don't get me wrong, but as in the 'real world',…

I figured Joanna's play was going to be accusing her boy-toy of the abuse, AFTER he did her the service of exonerating the 'divorced' Tyrell. Just a thought. And since there's a million comments here, if I'm unknowingly commenting on a dead horse already beaten, all apologies.

I'm thinking you're right, on a lot of points, and I think I now see in my post I was trying to describe how one has to change 'lenses' so to speak moving from FC to Esmail's more nuanced take on 'our current condition.' And via Elliot, Esmail has literally began from where Fincher's film breaks off, that is via, the…

ferfook's sake lad, this ain't freshman essay 101.

While the episodes leading up to the finale were great, the latter was a bit of a letdown. Its a strange and interesting thing Esmail is doing, but at times I wish he would change it up. By this I mean, it seems the show remains heavily microcosmic in its 'close-up' depiction of its characters and their minds,…

Yeah that's kind of the MetaCritic way, which seems only a more efficient way to see that the whole Circle O' Critics tend to follow the other's lead, leading to self-fulfilling spirals up or down. Tho this tends to be the case for Books more than Movies or TV. I don't know. It seems like TV is the one place where, no…

With each episode it seems a character (Angela) is revealed to have some form of doppelganger, a human variation on the new nature in which they are surrounded, that is the 01010101 binary world, and though doubles go way back into the mythic, it seems like here, at least with Eliot, the show is trying to go beyond…

not familiar with that show. is it on any of the streamers, Netflix,etc? There is that moment earlier in the season, maybe episode 1 or 2, where she asks Alexis [sp?] about 'when the end of the world' will occur.

Mullholland Drive, Lost Highway, Twin Peaks (show). What I like about this episode's was its cinematic breadth, moving though Lynch and Kubrick, and not afraid to have fun with Casablanca as well. And though unintended perhaps, Elliot paralleling Marty Feldman's 'Eye-gor' role in Young Frankenstein. Don't get me…

I'm a purple. That giraffe question was the toughest. and yes, that decadent room was pure Kubrick. The interrogation scene was sort of Lynch, minus a dwarf speaking backward. There was a bit of the Kafka absurd there too. And, via Lolita, there were a lot of allusions preceding this (Darlene's 'Star' sunglasses, and…

Good point. But what if the series is straight the other way, i.e. : a-,b-,b+, b+, a-, etc? Either way its a far better system than the E/Or silliness of the 80s Siskel/Ebert. And if any show needed nuance of response, with good things here, maybe not there, etc, it'd be this one.

One of the tattoos, on her right upper arm, appeared to be an 'Ourobouros/Ouroboros,' the mythical snake swallowing its own tail usually representing the endless nature of things, eternitiy, etc. A minor contribution to the ideas of Time circulating through the show, esp via Whiterose. Though the disconnect you…

Or witch-burnings in the 17th. Or the Goat-boy hut in the 'freaks!' section of a carnival in 1930.

yeah, I skipped reading all the comments until after. never good ;). But thanks for taking advantage of the situation to reveal your deft skills at snark.

'Red Wheelbarrow' is a reference to William Carlos Williams' poem.

I agree. The last two episodes, especially this latest one, were underappreciated, grade-wise. (and the pluses and minuses are overused, perhaps they allow the critic to have it both ways rather than, with As, Bs, etc, be forced to organize a more solid argument supporting a strong conviction)
I don't mean to bag on…

hey DDB9000 are you in here, or below, I haven't read the comments yet cuz i'm excited how we were onto something in the 'logic-bomb' episode, with its many somewhat obscure Lolita/Nabokov references therein!! Though far outnumbered I'm sure in comparison to many on here, I feel worthy. How are the pts administered…

I agree with others below who thought this ep to be quite good, in comparison with the last 2 or so episodes. The critique of 'cliffhangers' seemed a bit 'inside baseball re tv critics and not even good 'inside baseball' if it is trying to propose that a non-serial show to have some little closure by the end, or how…

That's a really good line of thought. The music starting where it does via her own self-actualizing soundtrack…

-"Still, each beat of this sequence played out beautifully, like a Mission: Impossible rejiggered for the age of paranoia." While I liked the structure of the show (it always keeps you on your toes), it felt a little like the jarring music and laughtrack, et al, of the first half seeped a little into the second half,…