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This show (the whole series, not just this last episode) looked promising at first, but it's either too arty or too emo to make any sense to me. I don't even know what I watched, and the show didn't come close to delivering anything after creating all that anticipation with the teasers that advertised it. I'm not even interested enough to try to analyze or understand the premise(s) or lessons, if there were any.

I feel the same. Wth am I watching?? Did all the good writers die and get replaced by random AI gibberish or something?? If the plotlines don't lose the weirdness and return to funny immediately, I don't think I'll watch more than one more episode. It already feels like RIP, Brockmier to me. :( So far, I've forgotten about the show 3 times and had to watch it on demand. :/ 2017-2019 Brockmier wasn't nearly so easy to forget.

I'm starting to wonder if I was adopted, because my parents, brother, and sister don't think this show is funny at all. :D

Their conversations are hilarious. I figured it's more Lettie's brain misfiring form all those drugs, though. Not an actual haunting. I felt s sad when he was accidentally killed. He seemed like the good family man type. :(

Yeah. Disturbing. I think I feel a bit ill now.

LMAO! Yes, Charleston, WV does have drag. Broadway, on Leon Sullivan Way. Before that, I think there was The Grand Palace. Have never set foot in either place, though. (Still laughing!)

Yeah, humanized but still dysfunctional in relationships with women, apparently. It will always disturb me, however it was intended, that Joe called Cameron "the thing" when breaking up. My inspiration, my muse, the greatest love of my dysfunctional life, the woman who was always too far ahead of me, the relationship that I managed to trash twice, my greatest heartbreak:. Any of those would have been acceptable when losing one you love. But "thing" indicates a distancing, the relationship of man with an OBJECT, like his car. I cringed when he said that to Cameron. That is just not an appropriate thing to say to a woman. I saw it as disrespectful, especially since we saw hints of OCD and control freak behavior toward Cameron. And grieving over Gordon's death and not much grieving over breaking up with Cam. I'd have slapped that Joe into next Sunday, and said "Yes, and that's exactly why I need to dump you now." Joe, dam you, you just can't help being toxic, can you. Lol

Not completely out. Machines had dual floppies in my workplace in 1994 because a ton of data had been stored on 5.25". In fact, in 2004, they suddenly realized that they needed that old original process design data when clients came back to have us design plant expansion projects. I slapped together The Ultimate Data Conversion computer from old parts I had at home and work's old tape drive. Then spent 4 days copying 3", 5.25", zip drive, CDs, and tapes to DVD. Solved that problem real fast, lol.

Oh! That opening of S4 E1 Who Needs a Guy is part of Gordon's dying having scenes from his life play like a movie, wasn't it? The flashbacks must have started with work-related stuff, like the former Muting building and remodeling it, etc. Gordon is massaging his temples in this sequence. The scene of camping in the woods with Joe is completely nonsensical. That whole opening is a tossed salad of work-life. The preamble to Gordon's death at home, where he has the flashbacks of Donna and the kids before he dies. Isn't it? The lighting, the sallow color, the nonsensical dream-sequence of it (winter coats and hats worn indoors in California??) Joe, "... tasked with a mindless job scanning years worth of company records in the basement..." (per http://haltandcatchfire.wikia.com/wiki/Joe_MacMillan) and Joe and Gordon working in that basement timesharing the company's computers is flashback to Season 2? Joe has a cast on his arm, then he doesn't. I can't recall what episode that might have come from, or whether it was metaphor or figment of Gordon's imagination.

Okay, I am baffled by Joe's remark to Cam, when they were breaking up, when he said "You were the thing that gets me to the thing. It was always you." (or something like that) Wut? Wut is that remark supposed to mean? Maybe the writers meant it as a compliment to Cam, but it came across as insulting or condescending to me, if they were supposed to be a couple in love. Like narcissist Joe admitting "I used to think your were the greatest thing in the world, but now I see you were less than that." Maybe it's because I have trouble recalling what happened in the past seasons, but I never could gauge whether Cameron loved Joe more than Joe loved Cameron. Cameron seemed to prefer Joe's crazy to Tom's plan to live a predictable married family life on an even keel. And I always suspected Joe of using and controlling Cameron in S1 as just another vehicle for Joe to pursue Joe's goals. Then when Cameron landed Joe, she found that he wasn't really what she wanted after all, like she had grown up and moved on, but he was still stuck in their '80s relationship. Maybe that was the whole point of showing Joe micromanaging Cameron, and Cameron politely squirming away from Joe in S4. Gordon called it correctly, that the Joe/Cameron relationship had no future whatsoever. Too bad, because I really wanted both of them to find a soulmate that they'll live happily ever after with. I actually can't believe I have watched 4 seasons of this show. For whatever reason, S2 & S3 just didn't stick in my mind the way some other shows did. S1 made an impression on me, I guess. I liked the flip-flop in the Donna and Gordon characters between S1 and later seasons. I thought Gordon was a huge jerk in S1, and Donna was a likable professional woman who was getting shortchanged in her professional and married lives. Then, we saw Donna turn into b on wheels, and Gordon morph into a likable guy, a decent dad, and a superb boss and co-worker. Even Joe managed to turn down his narcissism and have consideration for others.

Who knows. Yet another plothole, haha. And Lettie's mother's house is way too expensive to be believable. But the flawed characters are likable and interesting, so zill haf another drink and keep wasthing.

Yeah, you're right. Jesse did pay "Eugene" at the cash register, not at the table. Jesse keeps seeing Eugene everywhere, so who knows. I was thinking that methane and other flammable gasses explode *up*, so if that was Emily in the control room, which appeared to be below ground, it might have been a messy but ultimately survivable explosion.

I don't have a recording of this show, and I haven't ever streamed anything to re-watch and study. But I have two questions after watching the Final: 1. Did the Roadtrip 3 even pay the bill for their french fries, or did they, too, say the hell with being good, and just skip out & beat the check? 2. I thought the woman wearing the bondage getup in the methane plant control room was Emily from the church. Did anyone else think that? (My TV screen is small, btw.) Even if it isn't true, I like that idea better so I think I'll just continue believing that's what happened. LOL

After this episode I'm no longer worried about Eugene in Hell. I think he's in a much better place, there. >;-D And apparently Genesis likes to booze it up a good bit? I dunno. Genesis doesn't seem to object to boozing, at least. heehee

Dang. That's amazing. I must have been distracted by all the (other) weirdness because it never crossed my mind that the old control system could be for Hell. But then, I gave up trying to analyze this show after the 2nd or 3rd episode. I never know what's going on. I just watch. lol