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In a sense, Trump himself is almost like the MacGuffin, the plot device that gives these characters an excuse to get together.

“Night Country” serves a wide array of MacGuffins to turn over, cutting all kinds of Season 1 Easter Eggs into the Christmas hash.

Though one might think it not hard to find — just sail until you hit it — a map to the place is the season’s major MacGuffin.

This sequence is ostensibly there to introduce the film’s MacGuffin, Archimedes Antikythera, a real celestial calculation machine with extraordinary predictive capabilities that in the film is bestowed with some otherworldly powers.

The resistance says no: “Algorithms love cliches,” declares JQ, “and there’s no cliche bigger than the quest for the Holy Grail — most overused MacGuffin ever.”