Hotel Reverie

Spoiler. How did the simulated Clara remember something that happened after the actress played her role? Like if she has Dorothy’s memories, how can she remember her own death and the aftermath?

I was wondering if at some point Clara/Dorothy was aware that it was actually Brandy and not Alex? The way they were acting and showed she was a lesbian seemed to make us think that. Plus she wasn’t frozen like the rest of the cast during the technical malfunction. However, it didn’t see that moment was clearly defined. You think if she started seeing a woman versus a man, there would have been a more defined moment.

When the company sends Brandy a way for her to communicate with Clara again, it's not even Clara she's talking to, it's Dorothy.

At the start of the episode, Brandy researches Dorothy Chambers before landing the role of Alex and watches a video. You can see the company recreated the footage (from the ending) of a video called Dorothy Chambers Screen Test, so it's not even a version of Clara she's talking to, but a version of Dorothy playing her role as Clara. It's not even a semblance of the character Brandy managed to fall in love with, but of the actress who hasn't even started playing the role in the movie. Same face, but totally different person. Makes the ep's ending more bleak in my opinion.

(realized this when I was writing it in a comment)

Did people not like this episode? I just finished watching it and checked out some reviews, but the majority of the feedback doesn’t seem too positive. I really liked it personally. What did you think ?