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I'm going on promises here. Because I know the character and the usual direction of the show, I'm going to sit back and let it happen. Episode was more of a conventional. We've got Simmons, Dern, and Thornton doing their things as old men creeping through life. It will be interesting watching them. The surrealist stuff is a bit much but I guess it has gone with the territory since the show was conceived.

A lotta Goliath fans hated Season 3... I did too but then it grew on me...

But it seems the writers didn't care because so far this is Season 3 all over again...

Instead of Chinatown in theme it's Chinatown in location...

And like Dennis Quaid had his own old school singsong dream sequence, that same thing's handed to new villain JK Simmons (you can see the producers saying, "We need a great villain's villain to end things with!")...

That song was about nuts and this one's just plain nuts about painkillers, which is the scapegoat this season... big Pharmacy Corporation is the Goliath and Billy in this episode continues wandering around in the gunshoe fashion...

The difference is that the other seasons had you wanting more and wanting to know more while this season is relying on the built-in knowledge that soon enough we'll be binging...

BTW: A thing about Prescription Drug Addicts. No REAL ADDICT of said drugs rely entirely on their doctors providing them more and more drugs because NO REAL PILL ADDICT takes just enough pills as prescribed. To be a Pain Pill addict you need to go to the big leagues and find a dealer who provides much, much more than a doctor EVER can.

If you're in a hurry for blood and guts splattered across the Golden Gate Bridge you're watching the wrong program. This is a mesmerizing program that slowly sneaks up on you. The best is yet to come.. as it will. So settle in or change the channel.

Slighty better than S4 Ep 1, but In the first few minutes of S4 Ep. 2 you get more hallucinations and a ridiculous song and dance number straight from a Broadway-type musical. Only problem is, this show wasn't supposed to be that. It was a gritty drama when it started a few years ago and now it's gimmicky and buffoonish with a few interesting scenes woven in to keep you engaged. This season is trying to be too many things other than what it was when it most enjoyable. The writers obviously checked out a few years ago and are now working on a project in which they're more interested. It's shocking how far this show has fallen.

I loved the first two seasons of Goliath, season 3 was bearable but what is up with the writers and all these dream/song and dance sequences. Shocking.

This gets episode gets 2 more stars than the 1st episode. The dreaming, the singing, the terrible music & the awful intentional dark lighting almost made me switch it off but once they actually start telling the story, it starts getting good. Don't know why in the world they had to add all that arty, ridiculous, unneeded stuff. It could actually be good without it.

This is my first ever review!

Too many meaningless flashbacks. Most of scenes are at night or in very DARK offices - actors don't stand out The film moves way too slow. The screenplay is excellent.

I didn't write a review for ep.1 because I didn't want to give this series a one star rating, even for a single episode. Two thing are ruining this series for me: the ridiculous surrealism and the unlit scenes. Even the daylight scenes are poorly lit.

The surrealism started in the 3rd season, and made the season almost unwatchable for me. I've concluded that some self-impressed showrunner (or team of that sort) has taken the reins and has made the series all about stroking a few egos behind the scenes.

I don't want to blame the director of the first episode since it's Billy Bob Thornton, but maybe the director of this episode is one of the team I mentioned.

At any rate, this just isn't "Goliath" anymore, it's "Look everybody at how cutting edge we can be". This series sucks now. I'm going to try to watch the 3rd episode, but it will probably be a slog for me..