The 4D chess has been replaced by someone playing one dimensional checkers, but unable to tell the difference between opposing pieces.

The implications are four dimensional, complicated, disrupting – and the precise reactions and consequences of those reactions are largely unknowable and unmappable.

He tells Salon, “It had some really fascinating angles, but the whole narrative was one long slog of a monologue from Dolores, which made it feel one dimensional, and to be honest, raw and unrevised.”

A filmmaker with a queer focus, he writes characters that are especially liberated from morality, making them dimensional but also dangerous.

The hypnotic sequence, animated from three dimensional scans of Scott, became one of the series’ calling cards when it first premiered in early 2022 on Apple TV+.