Goodbye My Damaged Home

I am messy crying and feeling elated/hopeful at the same time. Having read the book, I wasn't sure how they would turn this into something special. What they have done is a revelation. Absolutely perfect.

One of the best hours of television that I've ever seen. I didn't realize it until the end but it was so good that I found myself wrapped in a blanket at the end. I felt the cold. It was that good. 10 stars.

The 5 minutes of Frank singing "Excursions" brought me the most joy of any five minutes of screentime I can think of in recent memory. Joy amid catastrophe - so beautiful, as was the whole episode.

Flashback, bottle episode, dream sequence episodes are often uneeded, not so here. The episode is basically a four person play in an apartment during the end of civilization. Matilda Lawler, my goodness... spectacular. All four of the actors that played the focus of the episode were fantastic, but Ms. Lawler truly shines through. This is, easily, the best episode of the series, I just wish the rest of the episodes weren't so incoherent.

I watch A LOT of television and that might be up there with one of my favorite hours of TV in 2021. If the show can stick the landing with the ending I think it could be one of the 10 best shows of the year.