The things she does are fun, but outside of her being in a relationship with Pino and Italian, I don't know anything about her.

Go back to Modena and not marry Pino?

They're both making bad decisions, but Dev was the one who kept extending invitations to go on these magical adventures and whisk her off her feet. She agreed to go along, she overshared and as the one in a committed relationship stepped out of bounds several times, but she's hardly the mastermind manipulator here.…

I have been ruminating on the "killing half yourself" part of your comment, and I think it is significant that President Kevin kills the International Assassin Kevin, and not the other way around. It's like his executive function is killing the action hero wish fulfillment aspect of him. So I have a bit more hope for…

This is what I was trying to get at.

When the big bad police come for them, yeah, but that's after they act with aggression at the woman rejecting them, not in lieu of it.

Yeah up until the phone call it was going in a pretty clever direction.

Better maybe, but not great.

There is no evidence confirming that Kevin has ever died. We the viewer have never seen the condition of his body while he was having these (what I firmly believe are) hallucinations, and no one has ever said "yeah man we measured your pulse and you were absolutely dead for an extended period of time". The "mythology"…

It's the journey, not the destination. I wasn't really expecting more from all of this, but I know a good chunk of people were, so maybe that also affects how you feel.

I talk to no people from high school, and barely any people from college at this point. I'm starting to wonder if it's a me problem.

This was more like the equivalent of an addict flushing all their pills down the toilet.

Oh and props to Kevin on figuring out in gameplay ways to get information from the surrounding characters. "Prove that you know what the Fisher Protocol is" and all that.

Her calling Richard out on how much he moves his head was brilliant.

Well not literally everyone is someone he encountered in the real world. But for the people who we know to have Real World counterparts, they're all people that he either personally knows or has seen on the news.

Yeah, as difficult as the scene was to watch (I literally covered my eyes and peered at a bottom corner of the screen to wait it out) it was a moment of triumph for Kevin.

I was thinking more plot than theme, but this is also a good observation. And now I'm thinking "We're all stories in the end".

Maybe The Book of Nora is a book that Kevin writes after this all goes down because, dang, Kevin's subconscious can write a pretty good novel.

Considering how several of this season's opening song choices have been like little inside jokes, I wonder if they were banking on people having this very response to it.

When that sequence came out, so much about this excursion clicked into place for me.