For the record, it is not the AV Club’s fault that you’ve never seen that Random Roles. First of all, it took me, like, five years of requesting to even get on the phone with him at all, then I got less time with Slater than I requested - I asked for the standard 30 minutes that we request of all RR interviewees, they…

This show singlehandedly propelled Rami Malek into the A-list, resurrected Christian Slater’s career giving him accolades he never got from the awards people and the critics even when he was at his peak, and made a name out of Sam Esmail and a lot of the cast. It’s just too bad that second season scared away much of…

I very much took the final scene in the movie theater as not only the personalities ceding control, but as a merging into a finally complete Elliot. And the stream of images (memories) flooding the screen (mind’s eye) serving as a visual representation of that newfound mental oneness.

Am I the only one who took that final sequence to mean that the real Elliot is the viewer? The four personalities sit down to watch... something. Something where the camera is. The camera doesn’t directly show us what they’re looking at, but the image on the screen they see is literally just a reflection of what’s…

I would love to believe that our Elliot was born with the Hello Friend opening speech of the first episode. That those were his first words.

I don’t think the show confirmed that everything we were watching was all delusion or fantasy. The show had plenty of scenes from perspective of other characters which I’d argue made it clear that the stuff with f-society, E-Corp, and Whitehall actually happened.

I’ve said this at the end of each season, Alex, but once again, thank you for these pieces. They’re what I wish for most from reading reviews. They added to the experience, highlighted things I might’ve missed or provided context or trivia I might not have been aware of, and had an insightful point of view.…

I’d say Real Elliot will remember all of it. All his personalities are part of him. They have no reason to hide anything now. Nothing in his mind is closed off anymore

And then he’s in the real world, staring Darlene in the face, and he realizes that she’s the one he can’t lie to. She brings out the best in him, even when he doesn’t want to admit it.

What an incredible journey

I’m sorry but have you lived through the last 20 or so years of human history? Goldman Sachs? the Panama Papers? HSBC laundering trillions for terrorists and drug traffickers? the fixing of the LIBOR rate which was literally a multi-trillion dollar scam? Jeffrey Epstein? Donald Trump becoming President and staying…

I just want to point something out here: Think of any other prestige show you like - by the penultimate episode, we more or less know what’s going to happen, or at least we have a pretty decent idea of it. Even on shows like Breaking Bad, the Sopranos, the Wire etc (and that’s not a knock against those shows).

Ah yes when a huge multi trillion dollar company is revealed to have done bad things. It instantly gets wound down and put out of existence. That’s how it works in the real world!

Though he kind of brushed it off when it came up, which I thought was a nice touch.

A big one is Doctor Who’s “Heaven Sent,” which is IMHO a pretty astonishing episode. But “Here I Go Again” has stuck with me for a long time.

What qualifies as recent years in regards to time loop episodes? Would Person of Interest’s “If Then Else” from 2015 count? Cause that would win for me for sure just for the loop where the Machine speeds through everyone’s dialogue.

I agree with splitting the episode MVP honors between Katie Cassidy and David Nykl—I have always loved Anatoly (the KGBeast!)

My favorite things about this season are:

I hate to contradict Anatoly, but I think Barry is the fun uncle and he is the cool uncle.