I've seen it, but didn't realize it was the same actor under all that beard.

I was sad to see him go, but I got the sense that he was just done and purposely made a mediocre dress. He stayed in long enough to get to make a decoy collection for Fashion Week, got some national publicity, and that was enough for him.

May the ghost of Nina Simone haunt your dreams.

Maybe Wayne was expecting to raise the children at his compound before it was raided? Then again, if all the women stayed at the compound during their pregnancies they'd know they weren't his only special chosen one.

I think the creepy unrealistic factor is because they manufacturers only had a couple of random stolen family photos to go by for the design.

It seems like his whole character arc was a poorly written one, with lots of telling but not showing.

That grope was a type of sexual assault, CeeLo.

But it seems like the Chopper dude was more a red herring (red demon? demon herring?), which leaves us Eleanor, Fausto, or some other nebulous force at work on the border.

"Rakshasa" (from Britannica): "in Hindu mythology, a type of demon
or goblin. Rakshasas have the power to change their shape at will and
appear as animals, as monsters, or in the case of the female demons, as
beautiful women. They are most powerful in the evening, particularly
during the dark period of the new moon,…

I was glad to see Charlotte put up a fight, and using Eleanor's ledger as a weapon was a nice touch.

No, they didn't show what happened to that guy.

Nice detail: the row of multiple standee cutouts of himself stored in the garage.

Sadly, the paperwork had a lot more dramatic suspense than the Chopper digging.

Yes, the closeup shots were distracting. In terms of storytelling I'm not sure what the tight shots were trying to convey.

It compares on a very surface level: lots of interesting characters, specific location, plotlines examining corruption and power and survival. [mild spoiler] Each had a "serial killer" story that many viewers found annoying and convoluted.

Now that is truly terrifying.

Good catch on the language protocols. That adds another layer to the power dynamics happening in that scene. I also thought the gift of a rare book was a sloppy way to try to subtly demean Fausto by way of showing an education and class-based distinction between them.

In her conversation about her sister's funeral, Sonya said it was a closed casket, which got me thinking it might be. But I find it hard to believe that she hadn't had some role in IDing the body or seeing photos from a coroner's report.

I was thinking along those lines as well. The review mentions the Till murder, which came about in part due to racist stereotypes of Black people as more sexually active and sexually aggressive. A sex study that had a lot of Black subjects could play right into that stereotype, so I can understand Hendricks wanting…

It seems like they're downplaying Sonya's autism in favor of the tired stereotype of the sexually adventurous woman who is obviously traumatized (because godforbid a woman have kinks and/or like casual sex AND be emotionally well-adjusted).