Holy crap - Hank and I had the same thought about the shoe in the tree in ep. 1. I thought it had been that of whoever got abducted prior to Rye noticing the aliens, but I realised instead it was Rye's.

I hope SOMEONE other than me notices the paralell between Hank's scribbles and the weird little mathematical book in "A Serious Man".

And we see once again that "I'm The Victim Here" are the four words most likely to get you killed (or at least horrible injured) in this universe.

After last week, it *was* pretty nice to get a reminder that Nick Offerman's third great passion after Megan Mullally and acting is Breakfast Food.

Honestly, as the "Missing Man" element I thought Rye filled in Bernie's role nicely. But it feels more and more like they're just borrowing the general mood of "Miller's" rather than plot and character arcs. I still can't decide who's the Tom Reagan in all of this. I thought it was Hanzee, Mike…if it's Bear, that'd be…

Oh hey, Bokeem Woodbine gets trapped with a stranger and the next scene involves someone getting injured in an elevator. Proooobably a coinkydink, but nice anyhow.

Who among us isn't?

Nice catch.

Given they announced that there will be a Season 3 today, I can't help but wonder if the talk of "Prohibition" and "Tommy Guns" from Ben Schmidt's boss is foreshadowing another leap back in time…

Well, on a personal level I've always thought it a moving story - Picasso, after all, did champion the idea of art going beyond simple picturesque representation and shocking or moving the audience, so even if it didn't actually happen the story is very much in his spirit - but on an analytical level, divorced from…

Not the point.

I'm not entirely sure, but the title of this episode may originate in an apocryphal story about Pablo Picasso. Famously, he was visited by the Spanish [division of the Nazi] Gestapo, who noticed [a photo of] his "Guernica".

I noticed that on a rewatch lately. Given Molly's drawing of the sun + coffee stain became a spaceship, maybe she had some kind of gift for foretelling the future through art in her youth? Probably not, and it was probably just a little sly nod by the writers, but it'd be fun, wouldn't it.

In all fairness, that could be any number of badasses seen or unseen in this universe - Gaer Grimsrud, for instance, or one of the weird little network of disabled hitmen Malvo describes to Mr. Wrench.

Holy crap, li'l Molly was drawing a Rhinoceros when Hank came to visit her last week! Why'd no-one else pick up on that?

It occurs to me just now that Peggy just has to survive a fistfight with Bear, and she'll have the whole set.

If you have to ask…

Fair enough - I recommend Snark if you enjoyed Jabberwocky, bearing in mind I fell in love with the annotated Penguin edition. It's just as lyrical and strange as Jabberwocky while also carrying a lot about exploration, religion and existentialism within it. But in Carrol's whimsical way, of course.

I think all evidence pointed to Leopold being severely mentally ill, such that he was deeply hurt when someone interviewed him in prison and painted him as a hideous murdering fiend from the bowels of hell.

Well, that and Leopold decided to be incredibly helpful to the police in their investigations, more so than an innocent but interested stranger ought to have been…