I watched E8 and E9 last night. I am very curious if the sequence of time jumps is the same in the book as the show or if they took liberties. The way the true nature of characters and interconnections are revealed is just brilliant. It also had to be a ton of fun doing this show with the same places being used and just aging them. Its also interesting how the story focuses on a very small pocket of actual real estate. This is happening all over the world but since the whole world isn't connected the way it once was, the world of this story is in fact very small. I can't wait for the last episode.
the switch in music in E9 was extremely interesting to me. The whole show has been primarily just dramatic music and then all of the sudden in E9 you have a couple of 80s pop songs. Seems almost like it was done to hint that some other parts of the world might be slightly more normal. That at least seamed to be true for the world of Jeeven once he lost Kirsten.
I don't 'Reddit' much, until recently, but someone put a very comprehensive chronological breakdown of the show--not bound by episodic constraints-- and I found it really interesting...and I missed a fair amount of connections from the first few episodes. It seems from a sampling of the various replies that it has sort of gone in its own direction from the source material, but I have no idea...
I found it slightly interesting that in the books they refer to it as the Georgian Flu, and even shot the first few episodes referring to it that way...but then pulled it in later edits.
The music is so on point in this show. Very stoked for the finale.