One thing I haven’t seen mentioned was one of the episode’s minor delights for me: how Yao was disturbed yet impressed by Laurie’s inhuman inscrutability (“At times, I find it difficult to know what you are thinking”) and by show’s end, was looking to emulate her. As a typically poker-faced Chinese businessman, he has…

I don’t have any expectations after seeing that Carrie Coon wasn’t even nominated for The Leftovers last year, sadly.

As soon as this ended, I immediately thought that this was one of the best episodes the show has ever done. Holy shit, it was dark. I said last weak that I felt a vague sense of dread and unease the whole episode. This week that was made more acute as a non-stop back and forth between intense anxiety and horror. I…

Lots to talk about with this episode, but I’ll stick with the dancing. Dancing works surprisingly well as a visualization of mental sparring, if that is indeed what they were doing. It’s been used significantly before in the series. Not only does it offer us something significantly more fun than vague lights or…

No mention about how future Syd only has one arm? Makes me very concerned about how we get that little story about the guy who chopped off his own leg after a delusional thought, and then we see the delusion crawl under Syd’s bed...

True. And The Leftovers.

Better not be. But, then again, look at The Americans.

So, I am suspecting maybe right before bed is not the best time to watch this because....