She's right in the middle of the action.

She's got a very clear Kiwi accent.

I suspect you're going to get some shit for your post, but you're completely right. The show's barely about mental illness, in the sense that it's utterly uninterested in depicting an actual illness, and more about that special kind of thrilling mental illness where it's like being on a roller coaster while at a pop…

Anyone get a Kubrick vibe off of all of this??

I think it's a function of serialisation and the need to demand audience attention — every episode has to be an escalation of the stakes, so and audience feels the show demands their attention and is suitably affected by the show's drama. But the needs of serialisation mean that every episode has to be a direct…

Yeah, the shortened season order probably won't allow them that kind of mini-arc freedom. That said, this episode still managed to do the kind of thing you're talking about.

Another thing that I noticed: Am I the only one who feels like the episodes feel procedural?
Like each episode has a self contained ''problem'' which starts and ends in each episode. Weird.

She's a Kiwi, (i.e. she's from New Zealand), she's not "Oceanic". You might as well say that Juliet Mao was an oriental.

It's already happened. Residue was cancelled after its first season.

Iron Fist’s first season drops April 21 on Netflix.

They're being sarcastic, jesus.

And while we're at it, does anyone know the story behind the promised — but never materialising — season wrap-up review for BrainDead last year?

I've never liked the show, but I'm sad it's cancelled.

I guess I just have to accept that this site is now all about This Is Us and Riverdale type programming

And, frankly, the show's been a lot more kind and contemporary in the its willingness to explore the various subaltern spaces within that historical milieu than it had to.

The show's conditioned me to expect sudden death from the recurring cast, so I expected Echo to bite it when she was monologuing about seizing power and cutting off heads. Glad she survived.

Nah, I'm with you. The season borders on repetitious towards the end, but it's probably the most viscerally exciting and entertaining the show ever got.

canonically he (offscreen, between episodes) floated Kelly Hu's character from the pilot-

Yeah. Most of the show is loosely plotted at best, and generally trends towards tangents and stand alone storytelling, so the idea of there being filler on this show doesn't make sense to me. Doubly so in this case, since this episode seemed to actually move one of the arcs along.

Wait what? Filler on Adventure Time? Well I never!