I did find this episode too surreal for my tastes. The stories with the main characters have been leaning more and more in this direction this season, but this was overdone to me. Particularly with Van, who I always thought was one of the more grounded characters. Van at the end talked about the timeline. She was in Atlanta 2 weeks ago. So within two weeks, she hung out with Earn for awhile and then assumed this whole life?. Not that convinced that the mention of Lottie would snap her out of her funk. After all, she left the kid back home to come on this adventure. And IIRC, Earn asked her about Lottie earlier in the season.
Surprised to see Skarsgard in this episode
My feelings on this season are mixed, but love it or hate it, there's nothing else like it on TV.
Candice looks like my ex-gf.