This episode felt like Robert King took the most remarkable elements of "The Decision Tree" (S5 Ep. 11), and rewrote them for Alicia while on a fever dream. And I'm not referring to Alicia's feeling ill. Parts of The Decision Tree, were told through Will's mind's eye, he used his legal pad to think through decisions, imagining multiple outcomes of his examinations of Alicia; Will's memories of 'that time in New York City' when they made love on the balcony that disrupted Alicia's thoughts, client Ashbaugh's portable classical music recurring like a soundtrack. I loved every single one of those elements, music cues, writing choices, in that episode. This episode took all those elements and raised them to 11. Maybe, I just need a re-watch. I don't object when a writer demands closer attention be paid to an episode. I remember "The Decision Tree" had wonderful coloring and camera tricks to question the veracity of memory: had Alicia worn blue or red at the Ashbaugh meeting in NYC? Initially, I found myself looking for such details in Alicia's fantasies, but then kind of gave up trying about 20 minutes in (second commercial break or so).
Oh, and I suppose the worst part of it all: after imagining so many ways this interview might go, and building up that suspense to what will Alicia say, we don't get the satisfaction this episode of witnessing Alicia committing to the lie about what and when she knew that Bishop funded her PAC.
