is facing the death of his gloomy and disapproving father Gabe (Mandy Patinkin)

The first 10 minutes is Han traveling to Greedo's son's hovel. Freedo curates the Greedo's Life Matters website that perpetrates that Han shot his father without provocation. Han shows up with the cantina footage showing Greedo firing first, but Greedo's son cries foul, claiming the footage has been altered. It was…

"But the Sudden Departure doesn't impinge on the story of nora in the same way that it does for Laurie and Tommy."

Seems like the magic hugs will be back at some point when they explain what happened with Laurie and Tom. But I like the "scam" angle they seem to be taking with it this season.

"The short answer is no."

I'm torn on this one. You'll still enjoy season 2 on it's own, and I think it would mostly make sense, but it'd be that much better if you watch season 1 first.

Isn't any story generic without atmospherics?

Well, there's a ton of that in the season too.

Yes. It reminds of season 2 of House of Cards. I felt that's when that show really found its footing—the tone that makes it unique. Season 2 of the Leftovers seems unshackled compared to Season 1. It's less dreary and more gonzo.

So Michelle Bachman seems to be living her own real-life version of the Leftovers:

In fairness, the direction did feel a little stiff.

Why would the real monkeys wear masks?

I thought the photographer in Madonna's Borderline video was Paul McCartney.

It's on In Through the Out Door, right?

I have a recent one: the line in "Personal Jesus" is "reach out and touch faith" not "reach out and touch me."

Just like "Myth" was "Eyes Without A Face."

Act of the Apostle I and Act of the Apostle II, motherf@$#ers.

Glad to see someone picked a sequence from The Producers. My first thought was first time Max and Leo meet, including the "my blue blanky" bit. The Springtime for Hitler production works too. But I think the funniest sequence might be the Hitler tryouts. To this day (and this has gotten me a lot of blank/horrified…

group hug!

The only thing that redeems "Piggies" is the sample of its harpsichord part at the end of Strawberry Fields on the Beatles Love album.