Another great episode of, I think it’s fair to say by now one of the best sci-fi TV seasons ever?

Sure why not, give it another shot. And do The Maxx too while you’re at it.

I’m pretty sure both Twin Peaks and the Young Pope resent that last statement.

Well I didn’t think this finale was perfect but not for any of the reason this review mentions. I just can’t for the life of me reckon with why Farouk has been freed and is wearing a nice suit and sunglasses rather than standing trial, while David is. Seriously? If David deserves this, then surely also Farouk? And…

Also interesting that Syd shooting David with a gun didn’t provoke any reaction out of this reviewer.

I find it extremely ironic and somewhat absurd that your review is obsessed with the sexual assault angle and sees that as an ultimate black-and-white signifier of what kind of person someone is regardless of any other complexities of this situation and the person involved (of which there are many, including most…

Dunno about being obsessed with tradition, I guess it just takes a lot of balls to change a 4-5 thousand year old alphabet and nobody’s had it this far. Also if you think that’s Hebrew’s biggest problem... how about having extremely ambiguous vowel letters? Or sounding like a biblical figure trying to cough up flem…

Well said, completely agree except instead of throwing out those episodes I would just change this last one.

I also wasn’t sure so I just re-watched the last bit of the episode, and I’m 99% sure the torture is entirely in the mind realm as when Cary finds Oliver he seems to have no marks, bloodstains or tears in his cloths. That’s also reinforced by Oliver starting to scream when David initially just touches him on the…

Yeah, I can find potential excuses for and/or look past the stuff you mentioned in brackets but the other points are pretty galling. A show only needs to conform to its own internal logic but it doesn’t feel like they even did that very well in this ep.

That’s a different one

Yeah I’m with you on that... I keep waiting for Cary or Kerry to have a significant moment, am still mourning Ptonomy whom they somehow managed to make even more inconsequential than he already was, and most of all Oliver was so much more fun last season when he was an actual character instead of a zombified avatar.

Only if you feel like a TV series’ excellence is primarily based on its ability to tell a grander story and not, say, equally by its ability to create incredible individual episodes and even moments, as part of this larger puzzle. I also usually find myself frustrated by such bottle episodes, I hated TV back when it…

I felt there was a severe lack of Pam-hallucinating-on-frog-poison scenes. Otherwise good episode.

As far as I can tell it says תחוי רעותך which makes no sense. It could be a slight misspelling of תחוי דעותך which would mean “express your opinion” when spoken to a female. I’m guessing there were no Hebrew speakers at the tattoo shop that day...

I wouldn’t go that far... if you mean the two episodes about David’s ‘alternative universes’ and Syd’s maze of memories then I’m forced to disagree with you, as I found those two episodes delightful and very inspiring pieces of art in their own right. I mean sure I agree they didn’t add much to the story but is that…

Almost no one had a big role there, he was arguably the best and most engaging character.

I’m pretty sure both David and Syd are supposed to be very intelligent and have mostly been that way until this episode. I feel like it was just a patch of bad writing... hopefully just a one-off though and not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

The thing is when he sleeps he really just turns into Christian Slater and goes around town planning conspiracies so it’s not such good sleep.

I’m guessing she is, but whose plan do you think it is, David’s or Farouk’s?