I can't wait to binge watch this season... I feel like it's better understood as an epic; rather than as individual episodes. The waiting from week to week definitely adds to the chaos and confusion that is David's Mind. However, as a long epic, I think that it would be a more cohesive look inside the way someone who has disassociative identity disorder manifests internal conflict. His internal struggle is greatly amplified by his powers which causes those around him to become the unwilling participants of the shifting selves of David. If you really want to get philosophical, the whole show could be happening in his mind. He might even be all the characters at once. Who knows where David ends and the real world begins. It becomes a rabbit hole of possibilities. Back to simplicity. You could definitely love one part of David and hate his other selves. Which to me is what Syd was saying when she discovers his different faces. She says, "YOU leave me!" Not physically leaves her, but the part that she loves, the caring part that disappears as the Id of David manifest. He's is good and evil and all in between. A spectrum if you will. It would be hard for a "NORMal" person to understand this show in the first place. Maybe wait to binge watch over a long weekend, before giving up on this masterpiece...
Review by Matt DVIP 4BlockedParentSpoilers2021-03-18T04:53:58Z
The same time the writing is brilliant. Because the irony is: had no one tried to stop David, he would never become the future David they're trying to prevent. In the very end all the circumstances that occurred that made David into the villain (and the reasons everyone turned on him) were a result of manipulation by Faruk. He planted seeds of delusion throughout the season. I remember he said something along the lines of "It's the beauty of the execution of the plan that makes it worthwhile"
Is David a monster? Yes. But all of it were results of Faruk. The amazing thing about this season's writing is NO full absolute Truth. As it said in chapter 11 "In the end, what is the sound of truth? Waves on a beach, the laugh of a child. Or perhaps there are competing truths." David is wrong, and so is his team for going into a moral panic and trying to burn David at the steak and so willingly take Faruk's word as gospel and not even attempting to fix anything. They're dealing in absolutes, which the future is not.
Wow. Wow. Wow.
At face value I was mad but this is just NEXT level writing and forethought