I thought it was total *wish-fulfillment furnished by Jackie’s dying brain.
(*Initially, until the body’s vague awareness of something very bad happening intruded, hence the full apology, hot-chocolate. group-hug love-fest blending into the dead welcoming her).

I don’t think it’s either - Lottie speaks French and Jackie speaks only English. In Lottie’s imagination French is appropriate for spirits. The guy’s plant book was in English, wasn’t it?

I’m sure that was intentional by the writers and will come back to haunt them..

It’s strange, because he speaks English in her, um, death vision (?) but French when he’s possessing Lottie (?), unless that wasn’t him at all.

I agree - cults are usually a kind of narrative crutch when the writers can’t figure out any more believable way of making people behave crazy. Plus, they come with all the appropriate negative emotions already loaded, so the writers don’t have to do anything to make them seem evil because the audience assumes that…

That was my takeaway as well, though the way the show presented it this was all a guilt ridden dream/premonition of Shauna, not Jackie.

I thought the man who invited Jackie was the guy who died in the cabin?

Hers and Laura Lee’s demises will prove crucial in hindsight.  LL was both a source of hope and optimism and dare I say strength, and she kept Lottie’s visions grounded.  Her absence deprived the group of all  those qualities, while Jackie, for all her seemingly shallowness and inability to adapt, and her throwing of…

There is more to Adam. He is likely part of Lotte’s cult. He has the symbolic tattoo. He talks about taking Shauna to a cabin in the woods to meet his “friend”. The “loan sharks” are part of the cult and made Jeff give them copies of Shauna’s diaries. This led to them knowing the type of guy to send to seduce Shauna.…

Yeah at this point i feel like Javi is a decent guess for the murderer, being younger feels like he might be more likely to be “Someone who reintegrated into society secretly, having never given up whatever whacked out social Darwinist ideology developed in the woods”.  although i guess the next trailer somewhat…

Regarding Shauna, I think your question is a good one, and my answer would be that Shauna is really good at reacting in a split moment.  She had nothing for dinner and was pissed at her daughter?  Feeds them a rabbit she kills.  Callie threatens her marriage?  She threatens to ruin Callie’s life.  She feels threatened…

I loved Nat and Taissa’s reactions to the death. Yeah, a little shocked but then like “well, now what?” It’s so funny, yet so revealing.

Also, she asked God for a sign, and a little bird gave her the crossword clue for “fly away.”

It’s not “arrows shouldn’t be able reach that high!” it’s “The game constantly interrupts you by forcing you into dumb scripted segments.”

Yep.

Have you played a Far Cry game? I haven’t played the whole series, but I played the last two and both of them were trying to make political statements. They just weren’t doing a very good job at it.

I don’t know how you can look at Far Cry 5 and 6's main storylines as anything but poor attempts at trenchant political statements.

I’m not seeing that argument in the article. What I am seeing is an argument that this series’ general tone-deafness is, as usual, on full display.

Because they don’t reflexively gush over every AAA game like most outlets?

Only watched the first episode, but I thought there were already some hints about the Second Foundation. Gaal Dornick seemed to be a sensitive.