Ben Lindbergh

And by the standards of this season, at least kind of drilled down on a couple of core characters.

That's a tough act to follow.

And this episode didn't try to sort of stick with the pattern that last episode set.

Not so much.

This was one of the busiest episodes of the series.

I liked a lot of it, but we do see almost everyone except Norm and House.

And Steph, I suppose, although felt like she was there because she certainly plays a part in the proceedings.

But a lot of lore like last week, but maybe not as well integrated into the story as the lore last week was.

You could kind of feel the strings being pulled, the table being set, which I suppose is appropriate at this stage of an eight episode season.

But it ultimately works for me just because the themes tie it together and

As always, we'll be pointing out some parallels among characters and timelines here.

So it works for me.

But you're right.

It was a one episode blip where we kind of focused on one thing.

And here it's everything.

All of the plates that have been spinning all season, they're spinning in episode six.

So the more complex the Fallout episode, the more complex the recap podcast.

But nobody thinks about that.

Won't anybody think of the poor recap podcaster.

Tough to know even how to structure this pod, but let's go Barb, because she has waited for her close-up long enough.