Crime, Punishment, War, Peace, and the Idiot

Episode Summary & Review

Summary

Beverly asks Bernice if she knows anything about Grandma ma’s past. The coma bound Grandma-ma recalls her past in a series of flashbacks that involves a tortured romance with two characters who look and sound a lot like Cornfed (Petrov) and Duckman (Trigorin) with Russian accents.

Our Take

A weirdly ambitious bottle episode that plays like a Russian literature fever dream, with Cornfed and Duckman reimagined as dueling suitors in Grandma-ma’s memories. The parody bits are hit and miss, but the melancholy undertone sneaks up on you and lands harder than expected. Worth a look for fans, though newcomers will wonder what they just watched.