The music actually made more sense here than in 2001: it's called "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima."

The red room is a waiting area between the White and Black lodges.

A lake? I saw that as an ocean, since the Lodge was placed on what was so obviously a sea stack.

I don't think Laura did such a great job, if that was her mandate.

Artistic symbology — at least for an American audience — would dictate that insect = bad. Insect crossed with frog crawling into the mouth of a sleep-induced young girl = VERY bad. I don't understand how people can think that's meant to be a 'gift' from the White Lodge (I.e. Laura).

Just don't open any windows in the Administration wing!

CUT MY COW! IN TWO PIECES!

Also, she isn't exactly "dosing her daughter" anyway; the doctor at the hospital likely prescribed it for her post-traumatic anxiety. And yeah, Valium is like, nothing. Less effective than a glass of whisky, even.

I agree that it's not clear who actually assaulted Alex. The way Jay looked when he said something to his father about "you just assume that I did it" felt sincere.

This comment was better than the entire review. I get so tired of Zack's reviews not saying anything.

Brain Dead!

So, both proper nouns joined by "and" — what else?

But that problem with devices was Gloria's problem. Never Emmit's.

Thanks, that bugged me, too. Should have read ahead before I posted!

Yeah, but: how did Emmit just pull away like that? What started that whole mess was his car breaking down.

It's in the interview linked below, and she basically says nothing except to imply that there's more to the story than him simply retiring.
http://www.vulture.com/2017…

Yeesh, that brings up unpleasant associations, like if you poke him…he'd explode and spray the liquid of putrefaction (or just garmonbozia) all over you.

I think urine good company with that opinion.

And I don't think he *sounded* wrong before now, either. I think his voice got distorted when real!Dale came through the socket, because the real person and the doppelgänger aren't supposed to be able to exist together in the same plane. We're meant to understand that one of them has to go back to the Black Lodge,…

They've all pretty much been different flavors of dream pop.