Biggest question of the episode: Celeste’s lawyer didn’t think to ask Mary Louise if she had filed any claims with child protective services about Celeste’s parenting? I thought she was one of the best.

Absolutely. Wish we lived in an alternative universe where this was Exorcist II.

Father Karras seeing the face of his mother in The Exorcist. 

The scene in The Innocents when Debrah Kerr looks out into the garden: it’s a wide landscape shot so it takes a few seconds to see the ghostly woman standing in the reeds staring back at her. If I didn’t literally jump when I saw it the first time, my psyche did.

Stewart Copeland’s Rumble Fish soundtrack. It was the first soundtrack I bought and listened to obsessively. Still one of my favorites. 

Agree with all the griping comments, but also want to add—so, Abigail was real the entire time? What? Luke’s imaginary friend Abigail never came up in front of the Dudleys?  Their daughter never came up in conversation?  I think we’re supposed to believe they didn’t want anyone to know about her to keep her safe,…

I love how this episode suddenly put us in the middle of the drug-fueled disco scene 1978 NYC, a place many films and TV shows have taken us before, but never through the backdoor like The Deuce has.

At first, I was thrown by the new opening, particularly the use of “This Year’s Girl,” because the song is so familiar to me and jarring in its own right. Maybe it was the way the cold opening transitioned into last night, but this week it really clicked for me. It’s a fantastic opening. 

Saw this yesterday and loved it. Didn’t know much about it going in, but by the end, films like The Innocents and The Haunting did come to mind (along with The Uninvited and The Changeling). But it’s a lot less reliant on the supernatural than all those films. The review is right when it says it’s more a chamber…

A colon would be more appropriate, but the pretension level would spike:

Also, for me at least, the first season was a slog to get through. But the second and third are outstanding.

Have listened through once and love it. I get the feeling they were listening to Jackson Browne’s “Late for the Sky” a ton when recording this.