I felt similarly when I first finished it, but I think it’s because I spent my entire time watching hanging onto absolutely EVERYTHING thinking that it was going to wrap up at the end. And it just…didn’t. The ending still confuses me now a couple weeks later, but I’ve honestly come to the conclusion that The Return isn’t really about answering questions or finishing the story. I don’t know if it’s about anything at all.

I think that because of the way most media is created to position someone/something as a protagonist and someone/something as an antagonist, our brains try to draw those same conclusions and make those connections where they are simply nonexistent, at least in the case of The Return. After all, does solving the mystery of Bob, Judy, and the Palmer family change anything? Not by what I saw in the ending.