I think those two are synonymous. Doing something every day would be a ritual.

Why do you think it's a cult? It just looks like a version of a college student org that protests the government/Wall Street/the system on the weekends. Actually one of the least bizarre things to happen in the episode, imo.

I don't even know Liv Tyler's character's name, I and most people in these threads just call her Liv Tyler.

There almost definitely was. No way union would allow him to actually do it.

Yeah, but for this show it feels appropriate. All that bullshit the GR did ultimately accomplished nothing. Fitting.

Yeah I agree, I didn't recognize it as an aged up Carrie Coon at all, and was struggling to figure out who she was supposed to be.

For Laurie this is just another version of what she was doing with the cult manufacturing in season 2. For John, I figure that after everything that went down in the season 2 finale, his opinions on matters faux-spiritual if he thinks they're helpful have changed. His attitude about how to deal with the Departure left…

Agreeing to that 'small price to pay' is predicated on believing that is even the price for it. There's no evidence that she awoke from her coma because of the town. To her, Matt is using a delusion as a means to control her actions.

We saw Patti interact with Dean, and that's about when I felt comfortable that Dean was real, but even that scene in the woods was weird enough to possibly all be a hallucination. I'm sure it was even more validating for the interaction to be in such a normal (for Kevin) environment.

They're the organization of which Liv Tyler is the leader. When the leader of an organization makes a threat, on behalf of the organization, and the organization assists in the follow through, it doesn't just implicate the person who's mouth spoke the threat.

Nah these are your run of the mill college student protestors. Honestly they're 100% correct in their reasoning even if their tactics are foolish.

I liked it, but it felt very much like someone was trying to write a show like Veep rather than it just being Veep. Some of the jokes and one liners felt like they were trying to come up with the most crass possible thing to say, which this show has done effectively before, but it felt unnatural for much of this…

For most of season 1 I questioned whether Dean was even real, or if he was a projection/dissociation of Kevin's errant behavior. I think that now that Kevin is… well not better, but well managed… Dean's paranoia stands in starker contrast. They used to be equally unstable and now they're diverging.

Great consideration. This was a global phenomenon, and the scope of this show has thus far been isolated to two different small communities, which some brief glimpses at the broader US government's and commercial market's response.

A lot of people thought they had a bomb in the season 2 finale, too. They didn't. But from the outside looking in at a cult known to not care about their own life and safety, taking over a national park ie government property and maybe having a bomb… I mean, I can see how a nervous government might decide a drone…

And that was a deviant cell, full of people disgruntled with the mainstream GR's slow-moving tactics.

"Breathe Me" by Sia? I've used that for many a playlist.

I would say that a lot of the show is about accepting that some things are always unknowable, and so the audience goes along for that ride.

Some shows struggle to deal with the fall out of a season finale twist. This show? Government missile to take the whole antagonist cell out 3 mintues into the 'current' timeline. SHE. DID. THAT.

That piano theme makes you feel immediate empathy for whomever is in the frame, it's masterfully effective.