I haven't ugly-cried at a film or TV episode this much since... Toy Story 3? A complete break from the show's tone, format, and execution, in the best way possible. In a way, it take what I love about my previous favorite episode of the show, "Be Right Back" -- characters come first before moral lessons or sci-fi world -- and push it even further, only revealing its world in tidbits and as little as necessary in the early-going, to get us to be familiar with these two characters and their relationship before bending our minds. Its sci-fi world has a purpose and feels like a given to us as it is to the characters, and the moral lessons are buried deep in their anguish, hope, and dream first. God, what a beautiful story.

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