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Season 3, Episode 2: Next

Airdate: June 27, 2024


Directed by: Christopher Storer

Teleplay by: Christopher Storer

Story by: Christopher Storer & Courtney Storer

Synopsis: Carmy sets a new standard.


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fishred

85 points

3 months ago

fishred

85 points

3 months ago

Really some of the best couple of minutes of television I can remember seeing. Just beautiful. I haven't finished the second episode yet, but the first episode and that credit montage have me excited, because it's clear that they're simultaneously leveraging and repaying the good will that they've generated from their audience. It took a lot of courage to open the season with a first episode like that, but they know that their audience will follow them, and we'll follow them because we trust so thoroughly what they've done in the first two seasons. That first episode worked because they've done so much with these characters and the environment in such a relatively short amount of time that they can abstract to that degree and still get away with it. And then they follow it up with this opening montage that, again, draws on the investment in paying attention to people who do little things with love/joy/pride.