It was implausible to the point of ridiculousness and it covered ground this show has trodden over and over and over again. I think this season is really spinning its wheels.

I thought the person might be changing the word to reference something else, but even then it should be "but a whisper." No "with."

The conversation with Nora was the catalyst for her decision, yeah.

Laurie killed herself because this is a world where rational, psychiatric explanations don't help people anymore. Her job is to pop the beach ball before it hits the field and causes chaos, but in the Departureverse the beach ball is already on the field. I'm not sure what kind of statement this is making about…

I find her pretty one-note, tbh. In both The Leftovers and Fargo. She's fine, but I don't understand the worship.

I don't think the show is going to come down on one side or the other of the supernatural vs materialism divide.

Matt's encounter with "God" has made him give up on the whole thing.

Pied Piper's situation may keep resetting, but Gavin's character has been slowly changing over the course of the show. Come to think of it, Richard has also grown. Last season's Richard wouldn't have accepted that he needed Gavin. The show isn't static. Also, this season's episodes are so much better written than last…

This is ironic because IMO Lost Highway and Inland Empire were more evident in these first two eps than the other films you mentioned.

You are so right.

What a persuasive argument! I love being patronized!

I haven't really sorted out all the ways the theme is being worked out, but the idea that the search for truth or meaning is really just the building of a narrative seems central to everything that's happened so far this season. If there's no objective truth then there's no objective good and evil, either. Just power…

I think I finally got the hang of what Hawley is trying to do this season. The first two seasons, like the Coen universe in general, contained postmodernist themes, but this season is about postmodernism itself. I think this is turning out to be too ambitious and too abstract to be handled dramatically, but I'm…

It's going to keep her safe from Varga, who operates mainly through technology.

I think this episode revealed that Varga represents a more internal kind of evil than Malvo represents. He voices the fears and bad temptations that people already have, even if they can't articulate those fears. He's more of a specifically Devil character than the Cohen brothers usually use; he's more in the…

The phone Jimmy had in his pocket was a sour note, I thought. It was unnecessary, and there was too much risk attached to it for it to be plausible. How could anyone, even Jimmy, predict that Chuck would assume there was no battery in the phone?

I thought that in the episode it was meant to illustrate what Offred said to the Commander about "love" being the most important thing, the thing to live for. Luke takes it for granted that since he's love with June he needs to leave his wife. Love is more important than social institutions, in other words. I find…

Evangelicals are mostly fine with ivf.

I've been thinking pretty hard about it, and I think the main problem is that Carrie Coon's character (I'm not blaming Carrie Coons, of course, just the way she's written) is so opaque. Molly, her dad, and Gus in Season One, Lou, Ted Danson, Lou's wife in Season Two — these characters all had both a gravitas and a…

But these are obviously new occurrences — they wouldn't surprise her so much otherwise. They can't be the reason she doesn't use computers.