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You know, I’d initially mentioned bipolar disorder but removed it because I didn’t know how often those with bipolar experience hallucinations.

Was Maximus’ explanation of the cycle of going off his medication, seeing things/writing letters (to the librarian!), going to the hospital, etc., every few months a good indication that he is likely schizophrenic? I was thinking of his alien encounter and the fact that the onset of schizophrenia is often in the late teens/early 20s. Maybe it explains his odd hatred of Fixico that his friends didn’t understand as well?

GAH! It’s Evan Adams! Besides playing Larry, Adams is also a medical doctor in real life. Larry, I feel you on La Bamba. That is still one of my favorite movies. Rita, Natalie, and Bev letting Cookie go broke my heart a bit. I had a close friend die in a freak accident when we were in our 20s. I still sometimes dream about her. Nearly twenty years later and it still hurts that she was taken far too soon.

I agree 100% and at the same time I would absolutely watch a spinoff series about Irene, Brownie, Bucky, Mabel, Maximus, and Fixico both now and then.

I really enjoyed seeing the elders’ origin stories. I feel for Maximus in particular and how sad it is for such a bright kid to be hit by something that affected him so profoundly - and not in a good way. Young Irene was played by Quannah Chasinghorse, a successful model and the real-life girlfriend of D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Bear).

Elora is thinking about going to college. I know she dropped out of high school - did she finish or get a GED at some point? Did I miss that?

Graham Greene has said before that he wanted to see more humorous Native American characters on TV and in movies as so many portrayals were so dark and sad. Hearing that I hoped/figured he'd show up on RD at some point. I really liked how Maximus' story was tied in with Irene, Mabel, Brownie, and the other now-elders in Okern. I hope we see him again before the end of the season. Yay to the return of the Deer Lady, but what a rough episode. I don't know much about residential schools other than that they were incredibly cruel. Why exactly were the kids being killed? Were they disobeying? Koda mentioned he wanted to go fishing - did he and the Deer Lady go and were discovered? Did the young Deer Lady sort of give up her mortality to follow the deer in the woods and eventually became her present self? I figured the old man knew who the Deer Lady was and expected she was there for him. He was lamenting being a terrible father and was looking over the pictures of the school when she arrived. I'm a little surprised she didn't kill him before now - I figure he'd be number one in her book given what she saw as a kid. I know the Deer Lady told younger Officer Big in the first season that she had known his grandma. I'm a little surprised we didn't see the young Deer Lady meeting her at the school.

I knew about the student the Gies' hid and that Jan worked with the Resistance, but I don't remember Miep's brother being gay or anything with the landlady or her family. I'm surprised Bep's (the blonde secretary) father, Mr. Voskuijl, hasn't been seen. He's the one who built the bookcase and built/repaired much of the furniture in the Secret Annex. He was the supervisor of the Opekta warehouse located just below the hiding place and threw the scent off of warehouse workers who heard noises from the rooms above. Mr. Voskuijl died of cancer before the Secret Annex residents were betrayed and they along with the Opekta employees were heartbroken about his death.

Of course Skully has a hamburger phone. Of course he does.

I am a diehard Narcos fan and this have 100% faith in Pedro Pascal doing a great job in this.

Small nitpick: I think Domhnall Gleason must have a very uneven complexion. Not a big deal, but I understand why that would need to be evened out when he’s onscreen. But I swear that make-up chose a foundation color a shade or two darker than he needs and then decided to freaking bathe the poor guy in it. Seriously, it’s just caked on. Makeup department, the direction that Sam needs layers was not meant for you.

I listened to an interview with Sterlin Harjo last year about the show. He said he and Taika were having a conversation about their respective indigenous upbringings and found a lot of parallels between Harjo’s life in Oklahoma and Taika’s in New Zealand. I don’t know if Harjo was working on the idea before the conversation or not, but it sounds like that’s what brought Taika in.

Holy shit if this episode didn’t make me think of my three college friends and smile. Granted, we’re all married and not looking to “snag,” but the four of us meet up once a year, rent an Air BnB, drink a lot of alcohol, shoot the shit about jobs/husbands/kids, and have a long weekend much like Rita, Teenie, Nathalie, and Bev. (Thankfully we aren’t permanently missing a Cookie of our own.). That was one of the best episodes I’ve seen. 😊

I took to Marcus right away. I kind of have a thing for chill, diligent, intellectually curious dudes even if they often have zero sense of time. It seems odd at first that Carm would want to leave the five-star dining world for a blah sandwich shop, but it made sense to me by the end. There was the family connection, and naturally the fact that Mikey never let him work there was a big motivator. But the flashback scene of the chef verbally tearing into Carm as he was making the dessert and his long monologue at the Al-Anon meeting explained it well to me pretty well. Carm had to prove his worth to his brother by taking the fine dining world by storm. And he did it! But in the process he isolated himself - no family, few friends, no love interest, and shitloads of verbal abuse from an asshole superior. Going back to the family restaurant was a way of taking charge of his life more on his own terms. Sure, he’d still be stressed to the max because he was running his own business, but now he wasn’t proving himself to an impossible to please head chef or to Mikey. He was doing it for himself and in the process creating a life and family that he’d missed out on up until that point. That’s something that was probably still years down the road - if it happened at all - if he stayed in the five star dining world.

Of course the spirit guide takes a snack into a port-a-potty while he doles out helpful (?) advice. 😂 But I'm glad Bear has him, he needs someone in his corner.