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A review of this week's The Vampire Lestat, "Toronto" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I call the food an Uber...
Alan Sepinwall
As some of you know if you've either been reading me a while or are familiar with the traditions of the Jewish holiday of Passover, there's a song sung at the seder table every year called "Dayenu," which is Hebrew for "it would have been enough." Each line of the song lists a different miracle that God performed for the Jews in the story of the Exodus, and ends with everyone saying "dayenu" — i.e., even if God had done that one thing and none of the others, it would have been enough.
Many many years ago, I introduced the idea that certain episodes of television are so overloaded with wonderful things that the only way to properly capture the experience of watching them is to make like it's seder time.
"Toronto" more than qualifies.
If the episode had only featured Louis' massacre of the Fang Gang's headquarters, depicted largely from outside the building, in the style of Lorne Malvo's similar assault on a local mob in Fargo Season One... dayenu.