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If you arent having fun watchingManiac, I dont really know what to tell you.
Last episode we watched a lemur heist, for crying out loud.
And now, some tamerEyes Wide Shutrevamp that features spontaneous choreographed dance routines and Sally freaking Field.
Stop overthinking this show, and just enjoy it, people.
But the pleasure here is the high camp on show in the Neberdine mansion.
Just like last episode, there are more connecting strings back to Annie and Owens psyches, of course.
But the important bit is that Alonso Quijano is, in a word, delusional.
He embellishes simple travel tales and turns them into knightly conquests.
(Well take any sly reference toAlice in Wonderland, though.)
Back in the dreamscape, Arlie turns on Ollie because of course she did.
She pulls a gun (is it the squirt gun Linda Marino painted?
As Lady Neberdine she says little, but I could have watched her tremble and shriek all day long.
And Mantleray claims, as he interrogates her, that lying comes with a penalty expulsion from the trial.
And admittedly I was a little let down.
Of course our trauma comes from childhood injuries inflicted upon us.
Theres nothing riveting here.
Annie has made progress, and Dr. Mantleray puts it.
Shes reached the coveted 9.2 points.
But when Owen opens his eyes his sadness looks just as profound as before he went under.
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I think we have a serious problem.
I think our computer is horribly depressed.
Every time I get the spinning little rainbow wheel I think the same thing.
Theres a fun little play on words with the NeverDie cult that Lady Neberdine has started.
Is that some part of these hijinks?
Some attempt to live forever?
