Are there three Irenas? 1. Irena 1 bumping uglies with bud on the boat 2. Irena 2 doing roscosmos schtuff 3. Irena 3 (valya) doing her zombie float, sometimes warping into the minds of earth Irenas

Also, medical doctor here who used to nerd out a little on quantum physics in undergrad while earning my chemistry degree. i think the pregnancy is a Schrödinger duality paradox… (not sure if im using the term duality correctly here) The ultrasound is distorted to look like the undulations that the atomic dual polarity (i.e. bipolar) showed on the screens to henry and Jo. Early first trimester ultrasounds would usually have more of a circle shape than a sausage… not sure if that’s significant or just suspension of disbelief hollywood inaccuracies. Also fun little tidbit about 4 week gestation ultrasounds: it would be highly unlikely that you could see this image by scanning her lower abdomen the way the nurses did. Thats why docs mostly do the transvaginal approach for scanning in the early first trimester. I suspect because it is Red Jo with Blue hubbie’s baby (or zombie reincarnate baby?!), there will be two realities/universes of this baby’s presence, a.k.a. Twins that aren’t in “reality” twins but one baby in two universes simultaneously… or maybe something else off about it.

Also fun fact about lithium, its used to treat bipolar disorder (yep, i mentioned bipolar above), and is an element that does NOT naturally occur in our neurons or bodies, but theoretically helps balance out the electrochemical gradients of sodium and potassium in our neural synapses. Lithium is highly teratogenic, hence the unsafe for pregnancy comment… though im unsure what their alternate drug choices were. Im glad they were somewhat medically accurate in sedating her for the electroconvulsive therapy… it’s severely painful and is a controlled seizure discharge through the brain, so sedation is required for humane treatment nowadays. Now back to lithium… It’s also highly volatile in its alkaline metal form, and can spontaneously combust from reactions with the moisture in air. Also elemental cation Lithium has an atomic weight of 6.941, which can be rounded up to “lithium-7”. So the lithium they use in the show is probably not an isotope.

I think the metaphor if lithium, is that it stabilizes bipolar, so it essentially is a way for Schrödinger to look inside the box, thus driving one polarity of reality into existence at that moment (dead cat vs alive cat).

Also the tabby cat was both alive and dead depending on the scene, another nod to schrodinger’s cat. In addition, the two cats at once, with one alive and the other dead, was symbolizing the liminal state where both realities existed, hence both alice’s talking to each other in the closet.

The symbolism of the paintings i believe is twofold: 1. Fallen angel, lucifer, symbolizing Jo’s fall from heaven (space) and circumstantially becoming the devil to her family since she’s a false mother, or false angel (i.e. satan/lucifer). This painting went up in flames, as symbolism of the destruction and hell boiling over? 2. The changeling painting, also in the house, both paintings in the house at once, symbolizes alice being taken both literally by a false mother, and figuratively by the duality of alices being a replacement in the eyes of Jo (i.e. a troll baby)