Well, it's certainly obscurantist writing, which, if dots are not eventually connected, will just be bad writing in hindsight.

I like this show as I am watching it. Then, the credits roll and I attempt to make sense of what I just saw and I get extremely frustrated. Every week. Maybe I'm just stupid.

It's probably a very superficial parallel, but I kept thinking about the Tony Soprano/Kevin Finnerty coma sequence from The Sopranos season 6a—what with the horribly depressing hotel conference setting, the lost/stolen identity issue, and the generally dreamlike (Kafkaesque?) quality of the middle chunk of the episode.