Nebulous AF

And it all builds on last week's Bobby scenes, both with his own wayward daughter and then (as if psychically manifesting guilt that we can only intuit from the status of his marriage) with the family outside the diner. The season has been full of father/child scenes/memories but they do seem to be building up steam.…

Okja, sort of?

One of my favorite movies of all time. I call it a reaction movie instead of an action movie.

Don't worry. I've built a machine that can take us to where all of The Leftovers Emmy nominations are. I don't know about the cast of Perfect Strangers but one half of Lenny and Squiggy is definitely there.

Think of it as a reverse Wizard of Oz with the Kansas scenes at the end instead of the beginning.

They'll all end up in the Ether after the Takeover. Kinja, what?

I'm sure they'll settle down for a nice life together in San Junipero.

For a season full of references to and resonance with A Serious Man, my favorite might be naming this episode "Somebody To Love."

Given the sociopolitical undercurrents driving the season I'm pretty sure Varga walks. I'd love to believe the opposite, but this last scene takes place in 2016. In real life I thought the smart capable woman would beat the crass criminal fake-news businessman, but I was wrong. Fool me once…

Right? Agency is one thing, but Mrs S is like "You heard her, ice cream for dinner it is then."

“Aporia” does end with Larue Dollard of the IRS getting a package full of presumably incriminating evidence

And Howard doesn't even know how right he is. He thinks Jimmy's always been Gollum, but we've spent the whole series watching Smeagol turn into this.

I would argue that Red, not Lynch, uses the guy as a prop to unnerve Richard based on Richard's likely expectations and biases. Or, since the scene is from Richard's perspective, that Richard manifests and isolates his own unconscious internalization of what a scary drug dealer is supposed to look like and then fails…

I do think Dougie's whole world could be a mirror universe, hence the junkie saying 1-1-9 instead of 9-1-1 every time the cops come.

For me, all those missed opportunities weren't really missed. I mean, all those things you listed were in the episode, and taken together serve as a broad critique of British imperialism. Maybe Gatiss could have picked one or two and fleshed them out, but I think he did a good job hitting a lot of points in a short…

Mr Wrench has connections that could handle the job (and that can tie this story in to Season 2).

The fucks are at it again!

Anyone else think of Certified Copy during the early Nora/Kevin scenes?

They definitely felt like an inversion of the Silence. Instead of secretly being around forever and acting without us even knowing it, they just showed up yesterday but want us to think they've always been here and we've always wanted them here. I think this a comment on how power used to be about puppet masters in…