Foundation
“Creation Myths” begins with a device that propelled much of Foundation season one, but hasn’t been as prevalent in season two: narration that feels like a diary entry, courtesy of Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell). Gaal was introduced as a math genius but has seen her towering psychic gifts—including her ability to predict the future in a far more visceral and specific manner than the psychohistory of Hari Seldon (Jared Harris)—take center stage. “When I was a child, I used to ask my mother endless questions,” she muses. “What happens after we die? Where does our energy go? And what about the universe: can it die? How was it ever born? How could there have been nothing, and then suddenly something?”
We also have some existential puzzlements to work through, as it happens. Since Foundation began, Hari has taken many forms. After he engineered his own murder in season one, he’s popped back up as a hologram (in multiple places), and then somehow had one of those holograms transformed into an actual human body. Then, we saw that body drown, thanks to mind-mangling cult leader Tellem Bond (Rachel House). But then, at the end of episode nine, Hari suddenly reappeared in the nick of time, rescuing Salvor (Leah Harvey) and Gaal from Tellem and her army. How?
