That's a really good point. I'm not sure the investigators even mentioned a gunshot wound (or wounds). They reported that the murder victim suffered a broken pelvis, a fractured skull, and a fairly sizable scalp laceration. Oh yeah, and a "putrefied and liquified brain". While the latter two conditions could certainly…

Right, I meant that those scenes are symbolically hinting at Jane wanting to hunt down her attacker. She didn't actually run after the guy after being raped.

I'm pretty sure if Perry ever finds out about Celeste's one-on-one session with the therapist, his reaction will not be a simple, menacing, "Why didn't we discuss this?". Hopefully Calamity Jane - I mean Dr. Reisman - can glean enough about their relationship to keep it a secret (even without Celeste having to ask).

She's dressed as Eliza Doolittle, Hepburn's character from My Fair Lady. It's the famous Ascot dress, with the big striped bow.

Doesn't it?? I'm completely enthralled.

Exactly. It's a professional diagnosis. Shouldn't that count for something?

And Jane already met Nathan, on orientation day, so (as long as we're speculating) that narrows the pool down to Perry or Ed. Perry certainly seems to be the likelier of the two possibilities, but like you said, Ed's looking more and more like a wolf in sheep's clothing. Between sneaking glances at 16-year-old Abigail…

I'm not sure it's a coincidence. Jane might in fact be trying to track down her rapist, to confront (or possibly kill) him. The shots of her running along the beach, literally tracing his footsteps, seem to suggest that she's actively pursuing the guy. And I suspect that she's not going to target practice for self…

Another recurring set piece? Those stairs leading up to the community theater. The ones under repair. I'm pretty sure this is also the scene of the putative murder (but by all means…re-watch the very beginning of E01 and tell me I'm wrong). Could it be that the cause of death was actually just a drunken tumble down…

Oddly…I don't think the dress covered up the marks on her neck, which were definitely visible in the shower scene. And presumably the shower preceded the therapy session. So…maybe she used concealer?

I think they throw around different verb tenses in the interrogation sessions to encourage speculation about who the murder victim is. Another witness - the principal - describes Celeste in the present tense: "She is an accomplished attorney and some people in this town resent that". Meanwhile, both Madeline and…

You describe it perfectly. I think this is exactly what Kelley intended to do with the title of the episode. Great observations all around.

"Should I get into this I'm really tired of the whole rich white people problems"

I raised not one, but two eyebrows, when they showed this.

That's a really interesting point. They totally DO shoot this scene twice, one representing the assault as it happened in real time, the other representing Celeste's memory of it. Her flashbacks, brief though they are, do show her participating somewhat more actively in their congress. I wonder if this is her…

Great observations. It certainly is hard to discern Renata's true motivations. The show doesn't exactly go out of its way to portray her as likable, much less relatable. Even when she - rightly - comes to her daughter's defense, it seems to have less to do with ensuring Amabella's safety than with Renata's personal…

Totally agree. Also worth mentioning is that the sex itself lasted all of 10 seconds. What woman can honestly say they get off on getting unceremoniously pounded from behind for 10 seconds? Celeste clearly did not derive any pleasure from the experience. The moment it's over, she pulls up her pants and gets the fuck…

I love Edward Gorey, but I don't know that the Gashlycrumb Tinies - or any Gorey book for that matter - is appropriate reading material for 6-year-olds. Still, props for using it to tease the big reveal that Skarsgård's character is actually an abuser.

Winnick and Ludwig are both Canadian, I think. He does give off the California surfer-bro vibe, though, doesn't he?

Yep. The prophesy was that he would be born with the image of the ophidian dwarf-turned-dragon Fáfnir—a mythological beast her father had supposedly slain—in his eye. I was pretty disappointed that they only showed his coloboma (the snake-eye) twice: once at birth, and again here. That is one gimmicky effect I…