Agree with everything! The Laurel-wasn't-dead thing felt very much like a soap opera plot twist to me. What's next, evil twins?
But I did enjoy the story itself. Sometimes episodes like this feel like filler when you want to just hear more about your favorite characters, but I enjoyed this one. Hai was an interesting guy, and it was fun to see that William and Laurel weren't the "couple" Randall might have assumed they were.
I knew he was heading into the lake to have his own scream therapy, and I think they should have left it at that. Sure, we often envision conversations that might have been (usually with exes or people who've wronged us, so that in our heads, at least, we can have that last word), but that scene felt more like we were supposed to think it was something almost supernatural. Ridiculous for this show at this stage.
Also, are they really gonna hand us a Randall-is-cured thing now? Because to my mind, he simply would be trading his frustration over his mother for frustration over his father (who wasn't very truthful about his relationship with Laurel, really). And if William dumped the baby at the station, then why didn't he see whether Laurel was buried or go tell her family what happened? Still some loose ends... and the kinds of thing Randall's anxiety-laden self would still struggle with.
I keep remembering that flash-forward scene with Kevin and his son... do we see the other twin at all? So now I feel as if we're going to lose one of the twins in this early labor...and that Madison might end up blaming Kevin in her heart for not being there for her.
From last week: I thought the confronting-Marc scene was ridiculous. I'm sorry, but scenes like that never play out that beautifully. They're often a hot mess, with the confronted party defending themselves at least a LITTLE more than Marc did. And, to be blunt, why didn't he comment on her weight? If he's a dick (and he is), he'd have said something, even if only to make himself feel better or less attacked.
It seemed too soap opera-ish there too.
But yeah, I'm still clinging to every word of this crazy show!