Fair enough. In this case l'm inclined to wait for the payoff to see if the cliffhangers are relevant other than as just pacing devices. I do like the idea somebody had earlier in these comments that the one with Darlene opening the door is a bookend for Elliot doing so at the end of last season. It can also be seen…

If you just want something to jack off super-quickly to, why don't you just wait until the series finale has aired, print out an article recapping the major plot points only with maybe a few photo still shots from that final episode for visual interest, then read it really fast while spanking your monkey, and you…

I've seen this subject discussed a little in other places on this thread, but I decided to jump in here. Others have said what I'm about to say in other ways, but for me the key takeaway here, other than that the scene works on multiple levels, is that even when a person is well-intentioned and trying to be supportive…

My other comment was so long that I didn't try to include this: I can't say I exactly agree that Elliot "had to" get Vera arrested to protect Shayla as well as lie to her about doing it. At least if he'd told her what he did, she would be warned. She might even have been able to skip town in a hurry to keep Vera's…

Since this review is a go-back-and-do-the-ones-you-ignored-the-first-time sort of thing, I wondered if the reviewer would review as if not having seen the rest of the season or with full knowledge of how things play out.

Oh noes. A duplicate entry. Sorry about that.

I agree with you. It also felt like a consistent choice for the show in that they frequently subvert our expectations, which are usually based on our collective and individual experiences as audience members for TV
and movies where we base our expectations on what we know about a character both from what we've been…

Thank you. I also agree with you that our lives definitely wouldn't stand up to Elliot's hacking. That's one of the things that made his confession to Krista about hacking her and about what he found there even more powerful. Her look of shock at having some of her deepest secrets outed illustrates so vividly some of…

I agree that the show keeps telling us that most of the time when we think that a trope, especially a character trope, is clear, that we are judging the surface identity that the kind of person the trope is supposed to designate in real life either wants to project or is projecting without realizing it.

I don't always assume that one specific usage of a phrase is definitive. I was thinking of the more recent usage when political figures espousing diplomacy argue that these methods are more effective for long-term peace and stability rather than dropping bombs on civilians, which tends to have the opposite effect. I'm…

This is going to be super-duper, essay-level, tl;dr, so fair warning.

I agree with you. I haven't given as much thought yet to Tyrell's murder of Sharon Knowles, but I believe that with Shayla it isn't as much about the trope itself as it is how this show plays with and twists tropes, something that various reviews I've read have also noted. In particular, the show took the trouble to…