Lumon’s apparatus reasserts itself with serrated precision — Milchick’s narrative reconfiguration, the veneer of reform, the promise of “visitation,” all reinscribe control as benevolence. Mark and his cohort oscillate between complicity and rupture, striving against the panopticon of severed memory. The episode stages subjectivity as a terrain of constraint and revolt, and it does so with disturbing elegance: a reinauguration of power under the guise of choice. - Full Review