Volanis4

Alexandra La Roche is not a good writer. People who should be very different started acting alike in this episode. Temperamentally and linguistically. An old recluse tells the woman trying to cheer him up "you're bad at this." This is what a terminally online millennial woman would say but not him. In the next scene two teenagers are hanging out and you can barely hear a difference in tone. I was able to guess that this was not the writer from the last couple of weeks, as well as certain attributes about her person. Just from the use of certain lines. She clearly has an issue writing the voice of characters that are different than her and would be outside of her social circle.

The episode is just ok. The ending has a nice gimmick but it doesn't add to the threat level all that much. The main character ranting all the time is becoming pretty annoying despite the good actor. Most of the actors weren't well served by the writing of this episode.

People who have seen 2x03 know what I'm getting at with the twist.

This time it was watchable but the bar is pretty low. You have to do some mental gymnastics to make it work logically and part of the newsspeak dialogue was placed in inappropriate moments (even teenagers wouldn't talk like that in That situation) but it didn't tank the episode this time. Overall it was an improvement.