I disagree. Let's not forget that, awoken-Mary, Laurie, & Tommy aside, Kevin HAD this life, with this family (mostly), for nearly the entire season. It took dying twice in twenty-four(-or-so) hours to SEE that he's "home," but it's not like he hasn't been there, at least physically, before. If there was a sense of…

Am I the only one who loves Hanzee & felt such sick relief when, after all he went through & sacrificed for, & to get to, Dodd, he stood there hearing even more of those fucking slurs, & just straight-up shot the motherfucker in the head ? Rarely do I feel any sense of catharsis from an on-screen death, but that one…

This was easily one of the most entertaining episodes of the season, which is funny considering that more than half of the runtime was spent showing the other side of a story to which we already knew (at least part of) the resolution (i.e. where the phone calls would lead; where the stuff with Hanzee would lead;…

Wait — what ? Is this for real ? (Edit: I just went back to Episode 1 & watched the cricket scenes. The sound of the cricket changes between chirps. It's not consistent, which is inconsistent with being a ringtone. A ringtone is always the same. Each chirp is slightly different: there are single- &…

I think Isaac's point was, not having the foresight that she was about to die, Meg's mother was simply going to tell her something inconsequential. Like when you suddenly remember something you wanted to tell a friend: "Oh my god, remind me to tell you something" & it turns out you just want to tell them that you ran…

I think the present was so obviously the cricket that he didn't even need to open it. If he opens it in the finale & it's something else, I might even be slightly disappointed.

I think the whole handprint thing was meant more as thematic irony: John is so angry about Isaac's handprint readings that he burns down his house & essentially excommunicates him. Then he essentially takes-over for Isaac by asking everybody for their handprint, which he feeds into a computer, which will "read" it &…

I, too, had that thought at one point. First, when she met Evie in Jarden, my gut told me she would come back for her & possibly kidnap her. Then, when they flashed a frame of the bridge for a split-second, I started to wonder about a TDKR-type attack on the bridge, either to trap everybody in ("We are the nine…

I know that it is a hallucinogen, chemically-speaking. However, it functions (incidentally) in a very similar fashion to a stimulant, boosting the sympathetic nervous system, & affecting a very large number of receptors (whose names you can find elsewhere), some of which combine create an effect analogous to that of…

No, I don't. That's exactly what I'm saying. It's not Patti. Patti is a symbol. She is the EMBODIMENT of everything he can't deal with. Whether HE manifested her or she manifested from some supernatural realm, she is, all the same, the manifestation of everything Kevin is afraid of dealing with in a post-departure…

I've been thinking a lot about what Mike Milligan said about REVOLUTION ("change" vs "rotation") & I think it actually, perhaps incidentally, holds tremendous thematic significance over the show itself.

Not to be a stickler or anything, but LSD is a very very powerful stimulant, typically much more powerful than anything like caffeine or amphetamine, so high doses of LSD would keep you up for days on end. No catatonia for that guy.

(I responded to this comment, too, in my response above to @Kumagoro:disqus )

I disagree that it's "damned if they did, damned if they didn't." But that's the thing: I think you, like the reviewer (Josh), never really liked the whole Patti-ghost thing ("they did"), & therefore hoped the show wouldn't pursue it in a major way ("they didn't").

At first I didn't know what to think about the Jeopardy story. I found myself surprised, & a bit confused, but captivated, even glued. & then, slowly, as the story progressed, it dawned on me how deeply sad it was: how overwhelmingly ridiculous & convoluted & even perverted a "goal" being a Jeopardy champ is, & this…

After the second iteration of the TV freakout (before we saw his father), I thought, for some reason, that maybe the TV disturbances were somebody trying to resuscitate him using a defibrillator or something like that, & it "intruding," as it were, into the dream.

I had the exact same reaction as Kevin. I turned to my father next to me, with whom I watch the show every week, & said to him, "Just like THE GODFATHER," & then, just a moment or two later, Kevin turned to Virgil, & he asked, "Like THE GODFATHER ?"

I agree, & I think that THAT is what makes the episode, & for that matter, the show, so interesting to begin with: this pervading question of WHAT DOES ONE DO in a situation that a) calls into question all present logic / reason / reality, but b), too, creates an entirely NEW logic / reason / reality as a consequence.…

Am I the only person who disagrees with the whole "this confirms the existence of some OTHER SIDE / phenomena" take on this episode ?

Also: I felt the strangest feeling of satisfaction when Hanzee killed what I THOUGHT was both the Kitchen Brothers, & which was quickly undermined once I saw that one of them survived. Anyone else feel happy to see them go ? I think they're the single (double ?) worst part of this show, by far.