Just finished watching the season closer. Overall I like the show. Am glad they're setting up for a season 2 (I haven't looked yet to see if it's has already been purchased—I hope so). I was waiting for a badass black superhero and I think Luke Cage delivered on that front.

Also involving tracking shot of a limousine.

I think the many dark scenes are too flat. Compare to the dark scenes in Breaking Bad, where there is much more definition of the objects and people in a room. I've been wondering if that's a difference between shooting on film (as in BB) vs. digital?

It's easy to overuse cliffhangers—a few of them go a long way. I was pretty annoyed when Darlene answered the omnipresent Pounding On The Door and we didn't get to see who was there. All we got to see was the flicker of her eyes which told us it was more than one person.

The obvious reference point to me was Fight Club, when Jack silently watches from the sidelines as Tyler Durden does his leadership thing.

In the umbrella scene with Whiterose, Price reminded me of Danny McBride's character in This Is The End, if McBride had decided to go straight and had aged another 30 years. "I'll come wherever I want!"

Well I was kind of wondering about the angle of that pee-stream. OTOH sister clearly has some electrolysis to finish.

That's totally what I'm saying: we don't live in the world where 5/9 happened, but I don't want an in-story additional alternate universe.

I wondered what that was. And I wonder what Project Berenstain really is… I hope we don't go all Fringe and alternate reality — beyond the fact that they ARE in an alternate reality from the world the audience inhabits, if only by virtue of this being a fiction.

I really hope that's not all it is. That she wasn't letting Price bullshit her about being all Bold and such. That she's actually got some long game going that we can rally behind.

I just want to know if she really means it or not. With the shoe salesman I wasn't sure. Given the fact that she was drunk this time, it seemed more like she did. What convinced her to go over to the Dark Side? I don't remember a particular moment…

They made sure it was very sad. Even the lighting emphasized it—her face was pretty much in shadow.

To me, it added: a foreshadowing of Elliot's reconciliation with Mr Robot at the end of the ep—esp. the bookend action of a hug between the two of them. Also, it suggests something—though I'm not sure what—about the fate of Tyrell. It maybe did go on a little too long though.

You're right. Elliot's dad was a real person. I'm saying that Mr Robot is not exactly Elliot's dad—he's a self-inflicted simulation of his dad, sort of. I think he's not quite even that—he's not an accurate representation of the guy; he's a broken-off, angry shard of Elliot's own personality, in the shape of his dead…

Well MR is a simulation based on someone who might have been a loving person. But it is nice to see MR being caring, and esp. nice to see a reconciliation between Elliot's two warring personas—that *is* a character beat. It would be awesome if Elliot somehow merged himself and his alter back together. (I think. Maybe…

This ep also reminds me that people with dissociative disorders get that way because something happens that their personality just can't cope with and it shatters. So I'm wondering whether it was the guilt about letting MR's secret out, or the fall out the window itself, or (hopefully) something else we haven't seen…

For all the griping about the sitcom, I'm not seeing anyone mentioning how totally creepy it was to have the show's violence set to a laugh track. I think it went on slightly too long, but mostly because I was utterly squicked out by the whole thing. I was losing my mind even before Cisco And The Needle.

Totally voting for Kang.

I don't have strong feelings about the song, but I still admire him in the video for his insistence on walking in a straight line down a city street. I still have days where I feel like that.

Dom dissing Whiterose's clock was the real reason for the attack.