While dealing with his withdrawal, Elliot suffers a series of hallucinations about his life, while Shayla helps Angela take an unexpected trip.While dealing with his withdrawal, Elliot suffers a series of hallucinations about his life, while Shayla helps Angela take an unexpected trip.While dealing with his withdrawal, Elliot suffers a series of hallucinations about his life, while Shayla helps Angela take an unexpected trip.
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- TriviaTyrell (Martin Wallström) and Joanna (Stephanie Corneliussen) don't speak the same language: He speaks Swedish and she speaks Danish. The languages are both so similar that native speakers normally can carry on conversations the way Tyrell and Joanna do (The closed captions incorrectly identify both languages as Swedish).
- GoofsThe crew is stealing a minivan with bumper stickers from a mother in a New York City neighborhood. The van appears to belong to the family. However, when they link up the computer in the van the Air Conditioning has "No Smoking" stickers on it, which is generally only placed in rental vans. This likely indicates that they used a rental van for filming and added bumper stickers to make the van seem more like a family's.
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Qwerty: Don't be shy now. You can come closer. Unsettling I know, your pet beta fish chatting you up. But time's money, Elliot.
Elliot: You need something? Your water, does it need changing?
Qwerty: When you live in a fishbowl, ain't no such thing as change. My entire life's been spent in this thing, my whole world's on your side table. I look around. Same shit, different day. The lighting, the furniture, even the sounds. Always the same. I'm on a loop. And it won't stop unless my life does. I'm exhausted with this world.
Elliot: What can I do? I wanna help.
Qwerty: I think it's pretty obvious. There's really only one thing you can do for a brother in a fish bowl.
Elliot: What is it?
Qwerty: Move him to a god damn window!
- ConnectionsFeatures Hackers (1995)
And to be fair to myself, I really do think that you would need to have watched the whole show to fully grasp what's going on in this sequence. Now that I have...holy crap, this episode is a masterclass in foreshadowing. However, I completely get it if anyone considers the whole withdrawal trip scene to be pointless on their first watch, and it does take up a considerable chunk of the episode.
All I can do without spoiling everything is assure you that it is anything but pointless, and anyway, I think it reveals just enough subtle little details about Elliot's character to feel like it isn't just there for foreshadowing reasons.
Sure, neither Darlene nor Angela's parts of the episode are as fascinating as Elliot's, but they are both necessary, interesting on their own, and don't feel like they kill the pace or make the episode boring. And anyway, writing something as fascinating for either Darlene or Angela when we haven't delved into their minds nearly as much as Elliot's would have been virtually impossible as far as I can tell.
If you don't get it upon first watch though, I get it. I'm not gonna come to your house with a pitchfork. Promise.
Edit: I've decided that, at least for a while, I'm not going to be writing reviews any more. For the sake of time, my mental and financial health, other things I want to be doing, etc, etc, you get the point. It could be for a short time, but I won't lie, it could be forever. Depends on how it goes, but I'll still be rating things so you can get mad when my opinions are wrong...just not in as much detail.
- TheCorniestLemur
- Sep 7, 2022
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
- 16:9 HD