Yep, this needs to be Helen's show now. Unfortunately it won't be.

Does Vik dying mean we never have to see his fucking horrible mother again?

But I’ll admit that it was very helpful. I completely forgot that Alison died.

The future sequence really confused me, and my husband thought it was a whole different show. Thanks Gwen, for helping me figure out what the hell was going on. And as far as depicting the future: white, minimalist, and the future-as-depicted-by-Woody Allen is the go to color scheme for the future.