Overview

• The penultimate installment delivers a faster, shorter episode that accelerates momentum into next week’s finale.
• Corporate rivalries on Neverland Research Island escalate as competing forces jockey for control of assets and intelligence.
• Noah Hawley emphasizes he is not giving a character a pet creature, framing the development as a tentative alignment that may not endure.
• Critics note the episode challenges a long-standing franchise dynamic, a swing expected to energize but also divide the fanbase.
• Parallel threads advance Prodigy’s experimentation with new lifeforms, including tests that suggest nonhuman intelligence, as the hour closes on a cliffhanger.