i mean, a lot of what you are talking about makes it seem as if you didn't even watch the show, or had no comprehension or retention of what you watched.

>>- Marty's daughter(s) and the clear trauma they went through
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what CLEAR trauma did the daughters go through? did we see them get abused? did ANYONE on the show even hint at or imply that they were abused in any way? they had an absent and inattentive father who cheated on their mother. is that the abuse you are referring to? and dont come in here with some drawings that millions of un-molested kids draw everyday, or a doll scene that marty most likely saw in his head. wow, i guess 40% of kids growing up had CLEAR TRAUMA. go find some resolution for all the kids growing up in single parent households, or who have parents that cheat on each other, or fathers who don't understand female puberty, or parents work too much and ignore their kids.

>>- Dora' knowledge of the yellow king and her rantings
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DID YOU EVEN WATCH THE FIRST EPISODE?! the medical examiner says she had meth and lsd in her system. she was a known junkie and told her ex husband she met 'a king.' she wrote in her journal about carcosa, the yellow king, black stars etc. reggie ledoux and dewall ledoux were the drug suppliers. errol killed her and staged her body in the sugar cane fields. they didnt just snatch her up and kill her in one night, she was seen with them over several weeks. they used her, drugged her, and sacrificed her. the knife used to make the shallow stab wounds on her stomach is found in errols shed with his fingerprints on it and its also the same knife used in the rianne oliver murder.

>>- rust us really resolved regarding his own family knowing
>>that cabal of men are still out there? Not only that but
>>optimistic because they caught only one guy?

he wasn't optimistic at all! he wakes up from a coma and is still asking questions and still mad they didn't get them all. having just had a near death experience and just woke up from a coma were you expecting him to bust through the hospital window 'crash' style, scale the wall, and go back to his storage trailer? to collect more evidence on who, the senator? everyone else was dead or was only connected to the cover up and not the actual murders.

>>- that rigmarole on the boat
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WTF were you watching? they got the info they needed and let the sheriff go. thats it, thats the scene. and they warned him that if he talked or if anything happened to them that the info they sent out would implicate him because he was the one who took the original missing person report for marie and he was in 'possession' of the tape when they found it. what more needs to be spoon-fed about such a simple and straightforward scene?

>>- the rigmarole in the projects
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again, i don't really know what more you want out of something so simple. there's literally zero ambiguity about the projects sequence. it was just a means to an end that rust had to go through to get the connection he needed to reggie ledoux who was the drug supplier of the biker gang. without ginger there is no meeting with dewall, and without dewall, marty has no one to follow to find out where the ledoux compound is. dead simple.

there is nothing "deep" about the plot in this story at all and no one is looking for more meaning except for you and a few other people who were not paying attention to what you were watching.