S1: Chapter 6

Yes, hopefully. I LOVE that it's been renewed. The TV pinheads occasionally get it right. Occasionally.

I liked this episode as much as last week's. It wasn't as physical, but it was more cerebral, if that's possible. And it was even weirder in its own way. I can hardly wait for episode 7. I'm also looking forward to an explanatory you tube video. I've watched them for the first five episodes.
They've been very helpful. They confirmed some things I noticed, and pointed out a lot of things which I missed.

Thanks for taking the lead on this. Btw, it's eight episodes, right?

I liked this episode. It was less psychedelic than last week but I felt like it did some useful explaining, so I am slightly less confused.
Plus we got an awesome dance number! The devil with yellow eyes has some great gams.

Yay! for the renewal.

It wasn't as bonkers as the previous two episodes, but it was a nice rest pit for us to collect ourselves before the final two episodes. But again the end of the episode left me with arms in the air going "Aaaah".

So Lenny=DYE? So is "he" the dog as well? And Little Boy Frank too?

Lenny being all over David, again, super creepy. I'd kill for that silver nail polish, though.

And that dance number! I guess I'd be all happy too, if I finaly had the mind of a man I've been pestering for god knows how many years, all to myself.

And another thing. What's with the missing feet? It happened in episode one, when Syd goes to David's room. It happened againg this episode, when David goes to Syd. Has this been explained?

There's so much more with Oliver, The Eye, and Bird in the Bullet time with the Cheshire Cat eyes...

But anyway, enough of my rambling. I need to sleep on this.

Questions/Observations that popped up for me during this episode....
1. Why was Syd the one who was able to detect that Clockworks wasn't real? Was it because she was on the cusp of death or whatever from that bullet? Residual from swapping with David, again? Something to do with her almost being attacked by YED before they all were transported there?

2. Why bother going through sessions with all the other Summerland people? Now, I have my own answer to this and that was just Lenny's way of gaining information on them. Or was she constructing those memories/pasts for them? To bring further context to the environment to make it feel real? I figured it was just her way of putting more control on the situation while also garnering more knowledge.

3. Interesting mention of David not loving dogs. Just a furthering of that motif. It's a weird juxtaposition to how we know his attitude was towards King as a child. Now, we know King wasn't actually a dog and all, but...David didn't know that so why the turn towards disliking dogs? A sign he knew King was off all along? Did he do something to King in his mind?

4. I liked the inclusion of the bugs all over the food again. I assume that's the other layers, aka the white room, kind of spilling over...another signal that not everything is as it seems and is alright. Could it have been a minor defense in David's brain to signal this? I'm still somewhat unclear on if they share a mind since the parasite is its own thing with its own consciousness (as Cary suggested). I suppose, the word parasite obviously means it's feeding off his mind though, lol, so now I'm just talking in circles....ugh, this show.

5. The door that opens with no feet appears again! First with Syd and now David, anybody have any ideas what's up with that? Is it just another display of things possibly not being real? For some reason, this one drives me crazy...probably cause it's one of the little mysteries we've had the longest at this point.

6. Just noticed this second time around that Cary said he was already dreaming about Oliver's ice cube. I missed that before...why did Oliver pick him to be his conduit in a sense? Just easiest to get into his mind about it since he's already into that stuff? Or, Cary's just the person he's known the longest and most next to Melanie.

7. Why did The Eye pick on Kerry like that? I figured it was because he wanted to create some kind of chaos to jolt them all out of this and saw her as the easiest way to achieve that and start it off. Other than that I'm not so sure why. I thought because she knows how to kick some ass he was trying to awaken those abilities out of her to help get them out, but I dunno. I almost feel like he won't turn out to be as bad as we think he is....

8. It's sad just how easy it was to manipulate David into this reality. The whole time I just wanted to be like, "come on, man, snap out of it!" He totally buys into all these different realities of what people tell him, it's a scary and again sad, thing. I don't blame him for this one though, as he was saying how much he liked the balance and control he was feeling...he was content, for once, though I know that's what Lenny wanted him to feel to become complacent to her ways. Just goes to show ya what people give up for a little peace, really.

9. Interesting making Amy go all Nurse Ratchet. Why was that? To show her as an outsider to all of this? Her whole, "nobody wants you here," I get was psychological bullying or even an inner monologue of David's, but why was she given a "bad guy" role when she's been one of the only ones genuinely on David's side? His or Lenny's view of her in light of the adoption news? Trying to estrange their relationship? Just curious how she wasn't put into another patient role, but one of antagonism.

10. Do you think Melanie will sacrifice herself and jump in front of those bullets? That's the thought that instantly popped into my head after she couldn't touch them and couldn't seem to move David and Syd. Since the eyes were upon her, and she was pressured for time...I could see her maybe doing that in a split second to save them. Maybe not? And again, if that's not the real world still than what are the implications of such a thing? Is it just up to them to claw away at the layers still they get back to it?

11. I really enjoyed the ending between Lenny and David. Not only because they're the best performers (imho), but that relationship dynamic is just so strange and grossly intriguing. The ways she fondles his body like that over and over is always pretty disturbing...just a physical act of her dominance, it's almost tough to watch a little...or I'm just a Sensitive Sally :P Her nihilistic diatribe doesn't help either!

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Just saw it. Disappointed.

I won't expose my beliefs on this one, I think I'll wait until they decide to give me a damn story. I thought they were 10 chapters, turns out they're just 8. And yet, it has no plot. I'm done.

Hope the last one sums up this mess a little, though.

Ugh, yes, me again!

I just watched the episode again and there were a few other tidbits I picked up this time around....

- During the painting scene between David and Syd I paid more attention to said painting. The most obvious thing that stands out is that one of her eyes isn't colored in yet. This made think of two different things. One, perhaps it's representing Syd being somewhat aware of two different worlds/realities going on. Sort of like one foot there and one foot in the other, she's seeing into both places, as well as the unfinished eye is white so maybe a callback to the white room where she last was before Clockworks. Two, it almost looks like she could be wearing that white nighty, slip thing that she had on in the white room at first.

Now, we can't really see it that much because it's not a part of the painting all that much, but it seems to be colored white and it has those spaghetti straps that the slip had so I thought maybe it was a bit of that consciousness seeping into David's brain?

- Rethinking that Amy scene it seems more apparent to me now that she acted the way she did there as an offensive tool of Lenny's to keep David away from that door since that's what he was meddling in before she popped on screen. She also uses the word, "adopt," which we now knows carries much more weight for David and would make him uncomfortable there (who wouldn't be in that instance of being berated), in the place he was feeling so comfortable in.

So, it's very at odds with each other, to me. Perhaps it's a bit of Lenny as well as David thrown into what she was saying/doing. It's a really weird scene to me that I have trouble truly reading. Maybe it's supposed to be that way.

- Melanie came through the same mirror Lenny did into David's bedroom. I don't know if there is significance outside of the obvious mirror metaphors and all that, but they focused on that mirror a lot in Ch. 5. as well...so we have Lenny coming through it, Melanie coming through it, that's where we see Amy sitting, and then we actually go through it when Lenny pops in and scares Syd. I don't know if mirrors can be used as some sort of portal, if going through it was supposed to signify being in Lenny's controlled world now or what, but...mirrors have just become such a commonplace symbol in film/tv nowadays that I always notice and read into it.

-David's biological dad knew about YED, well...according to Lenny, if you believer her. I think she's telling the truth there, but you could just as easily say the opposite. Still, it's interesting to think this parasite was maybe a familial problem or that his dad knew it was after David or could thrive off of him somehow...curious-er and curious-er...

Okay, shutting this up now 😋 just needed to get that out here!

Ho hum. Yeah, this show is hanging by a thin thread of interest left in me now. I mean, it has got a good cast, great creative visuals and a unique trippy feel to it. But the story is just moving at a snails pace. A whole episode to flesh out the idea that they are all trapped in a reality created by David under control by YED/Lenny?

The only really interesting new progress to the story was the scene in the very end where we learned for sure that Lenny is some evil influence that has been within David since "the womb", that wanted to poison him and move on, but then saw the potential of using Davids strength in combination with whatever evil powers they have.

But this comes after 45 mostly boring minutes of trippy weird sequences all viewers paying a bit attention know is not real, and which serves little to no progress in the story or fleshing out the different characters.