The job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and subplots, and establish new ones for the next season (if there is another one). I felt that this finale did half its job. The finale kicks off with Nathan and Nora trying to talk by the Torrent. Nora tells Nathan that Oliver and Choak sold
Read moreNow that we know who Nathan’s murderer is, it’s time to try and establish his motive.
Read moreThis episode contains the moment we’ve all been waiting for…the reveal of Nathan’s murderer. In all honesty, due to this episode’s humorous subplots, I wasn’t expecting Nathan’s murderer to be revealed, but the way they were revealed is very fitting. The episode kicks off with an alarm going off at Lakeview in the middle of the night, waking Nathan up.
Read moreThis episode was all about family day and the Ludds taking their revolution up a dangerous notch. The episode kicks off with Ivan, Matteo and Nora breaking into a biomedical lab where the bodies of uploads are being stored. The bodies are being stored in tubs with heads being grown back separately. Matteo tells Nora that the heads had to
Read moreThis episode re-explored classism in Lakeview. The episode kicked off with Nora and Ivan on their way back to New York so Nora can return to work at Horizen to help the Ludd movement from the inside. Even though she’s going for a cybersecurity job, she thinks she would be good at design, but Ivan laughs this off. Back at
Read moreNow that the premiere has aired and set up the new season, the real fun can begin by going deeper into the emerging story arcs and subplots. The episode kicks off with Matteo and Nora kissing and Pastor Rob watching on, unpleased. We then cut to Nathan and Luke in the schvitz bath discussing Nathan’s situation, with Luke pointing out
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to carry over any story arcs and subplots established in the previous season’s finale, as well as establish new ones. The episode and season kicks off with Byron checking him and Nora into a motel, only for Dave to meet up with Nora, and Nora deciding to go with him instead. Dave and
Read moreThe episode kicks off with the Lakeview residents waking up after the update. Luke is happy that the bagels are now decent and Nora wakes Nathan up, greeting him the same way she greeted him in the pilot. As Nathan is waking up, his damaged memories, now restored, are playing. It’s revealed that Nathan and Jamie turned down an offer
Read moreThe penultimate episode of the season kicks off with people lined up in front of the Freeyond store – a free digital afterlife. Nora and Yang are walking down the street and see a long queue already formed, despite the fact that the store won’t open for two days. Meanwhile Nathan and Luke discuss Nathan’s decision to break up with
Read moreThe episode kicks off with one of Nathan’s damaged memories being played in the memory parlour, showing him and Jamie fighting about their software, with Batia remarking she has never seen anything like it before. Batia tells him that enhancing stressful memories isn’t recommended, instead suggesting he enhance a happy memory. He chooses a memory where he and Nora were
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