Patrick Wilson plays the younger version of Keith Carradine's character from the first season, and the father of Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman), the heroine of season one.
Lifespring, whose motivational seminar Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) wants to attend, was a real company and part of the New Age "Human Potential Movement" of the 1970s. It was accused of being an urban cult and was shut down after numerous lawsuits brought by people who suffered psychiatric harm and by relatives of Lifespring followers who committed suicide.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie.
The song played during the closing credits, "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby," was performed by writer Noah Hawley.
The closing song "Didn't Leave Nothing But the Baby" was also sung by the Sirens in the Coen brothers' (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).