1x04 Under the Big Tree

Where is this going? Christopher Nolan suggested that the ending goes in a way that you wouldn't expect but when the whole show is something that you wouldn't expect and you can't tell where anything is going, you can't expect it to end in any specific way. Going into the show I was prepared for much of the strangeness without knowing specifics but I probably expected it to be more overtly funny. The laughs that come are emerge from scenes where you mostly feel uncomfortable so it's a different type of amusement to what you would feel in a show with a light tone.

I will say at this point that apart from Emma, one of the biggest stars is the sound design and music, it really lifts the show and gives a sense of something happening even when nothing much of anything substantial appears to be happening.

Some of the elements in the show don't seem to make a lot of sense and it seems that they may have used that as a tool to make the show feel uncomfortable. When Whitney is talking to Vic about his stove and missing packages, he says that the package was an Alienware computer and as it was delivered they won't send a replacement and yet when he changed his stove, he just discarded the expensive conduction stove next to the bins rather than selling it (or figuring out how to make stir fry on a conduction cooktop, which would have been much cheaper). I know Alienware are quite expensive but the stove was $7000. Sometimes people do strange things in real life so it's hard to say that it isn't "believable" but I think it adds to the awkwardness because it just doesn't seem right. Vic doesn't seem like someone that would be interested in such a house at all so the whole thing is weird and awkward. If he was interested in a sustainable home then he would have known that a gas stove was a dumb idea, especially in that house.

...and still we push through towards the end and whatever release it might provide.