I'm also a layperson, but I know that Esmail is not in the same league as Kubrick or Lynch.

If I've just spent two seasons watching a superhero origin story I will be angry.

What makes this show thematically coherent, when it is thematically coherent, is its metaphorical underpinnings. If time travel exists or Elliott and Angela are actually robots, or any other sci fi thing people are speculating about actually happens on this show it will lose its metaphorical power. Also — an essential…

In the show's reality there doesn't seem to be a Supreme Court. You just have to convince a guy to do something unConstitutional for you.

Whiterose and the Dark Army are pretty much omniscient. There is nothing the Dark Army can't do, if it wants to do it. This only works as long as the Dark Army is kept very much in the background. There is no way to give a character like Whiterose "development" without diminishing her force.

I thought it was just that he looks so much like Dave Chappelle.

And he shouldn't have attempted that hash of a Southern accent.

The way this show uses the character of Jane to make anything it wants to happen is insulting.

Marco was the one who initiated the sex. He was at least as manipulative as Meg in that situation.

He should never have been on the case in the first place. He shouldn't be allowed to interrogate Meg.

Morphine!

Yes! I was reading down the comments hoping someone would say this. The opening of that conversation, the emptiness of the car, the fact that it never seemed to stop the whole time they were talking — none of it seemed real.

Footage! You're taking this seriously!

I loved the interweaving of those scenes from 80 Blocks from Tiffany's into the final scenes of this episode. I can't wait till this show comes back.

Whoops. This is meant as a reply to Migraine Boy. Big Fun in the Big Town, From Mambo to Hip Hop, and 80 Blocks from Tiffany's are all really good documentaries. 80 Blocks, especially, seems to have been a direct influence on The Get Down.

I agree. As a musical fantasy it's really, really entertaining.

Damages was consistently entertaining.

Because the voice said "Man and girl." That indicates an age difference.

As opposed to the grammar rules that aren't made up?

I have not been to jail and I could tell there was all kinds of stuff amiss about the jail stuff.