Manousos, ‘nothing, on this planet, is yours.’
Fuckin’ epic. Loved that whole ‘stolen’ speech. Just before the hive offered to take his car with him I knew he was going to torch it. They didn’t understand, it was his sacrifice. (One of many.)

The episode however, as a whole, really laid out the most egregious issue I still have with this show. It’s slow. It drags. It’s honestly just poorly paced. There’s so much to explore, so many questions, yet only so much screen-time.

Some of it is art and artistry, but a lot of it just feels stretched rather than expressive and contemplative.
Here’s an example:

+ Carol listening over and over to the same line on the phone, is an artistic choice that relays the feeling that leads to her suicidal lack of caring at the end. It had meaning. A repetition she’s forced to endure. Albeit she could just ask for them to shorten it, she doesn’t. She’s choosing to listen to it. Even going about useless activities like the scratch’n’win during. That wasn’t stretching screen-time. It was… depressing. And she was, depressed.

- Whereas, Manousos’s montage of Paraguay could’ve been condensed. Beautiful location shots, don’t get me wrong. But when I want to watch a nature documentary I vastly prefer Attenborough. It wasn’t in service to the plot. We get it, red line, map, took a while.

The suicidal lack of moving at the end was good character development. And it’s been headed this way for a bit, notably when she laughed off staying with Diabeté.

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PS: As a Canadian seeing fireworks sold in convenience stores is weird. That shit’s dangerous, yo.