Just about the only moment in which my suspension of disbelief failed me this episode was when Eliot kept going on about stuff most of those people had to have thought of at one time or another, and not a one interrupted him to say "HELLO IT'S CALLED FAITH"

Fuck, this better not make Shayla Ophelia.

100% agreed. It was exactly as sophomoric as it was intended to be.

I have sincerely enjoyed several USA shows (White Collar, Covert Affairs, the brief life of the badly titled Barely Legal). I'm fine if they keep doing what they're doing and Mr. Robot carries on being the odd show out.

I watched part of one episode of Suits once a few years ago and hated it violently. I don't understand it either except that people will follow white boys anywhere.

Yeah almost as soon as I realized it was cement, I thought "This is how Eliot is processing the feeling of overdosing." I ended up being slightly wrong, but only slightly.

I get this, I really do, but I dunno that I buy it yet. Ray had a line about how the pastor was an old friend of his. We know Ray runs some sort of criminal, violent enterprise, and he knows things he's not, in theory, supposed to know. (See: his approaching Eliot for computer help before—so far as we know—Mr. Robot's…

That weirded me the hell out because I somehow missed that the machine was connected to him until he said it was his. I assumed it had been his wife's and she had died of renal failure, and his keeping the machine present and running (somehow, while not actually doing anything) was part of his general inability to let…

The bars seeming cagelike doesn't have to mean hospital. It could just be, you know, a metaphor.

Honestly, when they were obsequiously "of course"-ing after Price said "Angela and I are going to have one more drink," I was only a hair away from thinking they were assuming he meant he was going to take her home, now, thanks boys for the sheen of respectability.

God forbid!

Yes!! There are always more I'm forgetting, but the Dewey Decimal system, absolutely.

That was the workaround I went with as well, but I do think they could have made it a tad bit clearer.

He's a good dude!

Some of this was already kind of discussed further down, as it turns out, but basically the EPs said a) they got a lot of minor characters back, b) mostly for cameos, c) in most of which they're basically there to die, and d) they also got back some people who are already dead, I assume for flashbacks and not weird…

Definitely. In a way it's even more intense than Judge Dredd.

Yeah, but what he said was, "it sounded like a high-gauge rifle." (Or something like that, I can't remember exactly what descriptor he used from the rifle—but he definitely specifically said "it sounded like.")

Turns out they do, though with the way I have Disqus sorted it was actually below (hence the redundancy).

At a certain point when you have to work harder to reconstruct dishonest motives than you do to just accept what the show is giving you, maybe it's time to stop.

I did a big rewatch in order to be fresh!