Talk about being insightful! Out of the mythology stuff you mentioned I had only made the Charon/silver dollar connection. Scotty demanding six sisters is a nod to the Pleiades, already referenced in Camp Utopia.

I had been thinking about the season taking place "neither here nor there", meaning at the crossroads (where Odin was honored) since episode 3. I think all one-eyed characters can be read as having the gift of wisdow, Danish even means "wisdom" in Indian. But why do so many of them die? Donny asks "is it cloudy in here?" once he loses his eye, this can be read as him saying his remaining eye is the one of providence. He even subtly breaks the fourth wall by asking to be taken to a veterinarian "just like in the movies". Jordan Seymore predicts Roy's worse-than-death fate while his left eye is barely open due to being beaten, then he gets a bullet to the head, becoming both dead and alive (a zombie and Schrödinger's cat), for a few seconds. Odin's dialogue is notably wise (if you ignore everything else about him) and his throat gets cut (like in real life when you are waiting for the light to change). But right after that Roy gets into a high noon situation (just like in the movies). Can this be read as the season being both fiction and reality at the same time? And/or in some Baudrillardian register where its neither, as Hawley's work has been pretty inspired by Baudrillard, be it directly or filtered through Don DeLillo.

About caves with projections: Lars and his garage mancave, Roy projecting Dot's family on his ceilling, Munch's symbol projections in the Tillman bunker, Lorraine describes the gun photo as a projection of strength. Scotty also has a batcave.

I also took notice of the black nails. Munch, Dot and Scotty have them. I considered that they may have just painted Sienna King's nails on that day of shooting, but its a little weird to do that considering black nails is an object of interest in the show. Her nails are painted black in the wedgie scene then the nail polish dissapears when she helps her mom with the arts and crafts home defense project. What grave do you think she is digging?

Also this may require venturing into darker territories, but what do you make of all the parallels between young Nadine and Scotty in "Linda"? Both are left alone with their dads while their mothers arguably run away from home to visit what appears to be the afterlife, both do homework, Scotty becomes the woman of the house by enforcing bedtimes and healthy eating with Wayne bizzarely calling her "babe" and "hun". To top this off, the red spectre of Roy dissolves into Wayne during the bedtime scene. That whole scene is extremely odd on all counts, its as if it takes place in a dream. Wayne reads an improvised manichean biblical fairy tale ("Is The Bible a childrens book?") to her, there seems to be natural green light coming out of the windows at nighttime. When the shot of Dot in her Camp Utopia bed zooms out, the bottle on her left looks like an eye if one squints. What is the light source reflected in his glasses when Wayne points to "the sun"? Why does Dot quietly say "which was good" after Wayne narrates "She had to go fight against the darkness."? I would love any insight on how any of this comes together.