Interestingly, the “previously on” playback at the top of the show didn’t make it at all clear what the stakes were for Noah Salloway or his extended dysfunctional family. It’ll be fun, because my notes for the first half of this premiere have a drastically different tone than my notes from the second half, which is a kind of fun mirror to the approach Sarah Treem has taken to the final season of “Noah Solloway experiences what it’s like to be a woman when he is (probably?) prison-raped, but then is still somehow terrible at not being a misogynist pig to his students.” But before we get to that second half of the episode, which didn’t take a different narrative gaze so much as became a MUCH MORE HORRIFYING SHOW, let’s just go over the parts that I wrote before I watched Dominic West (spoiler alert) SLIT HIS OWN GODDAMN THROAT in a shitty, off-campus apartment at…I want to say Rutgers? I know you went there, Vin, but I’m pretty sure it’s Rutgers. This is NOT the show that we returned to. I mean, there were like eight solid Franzen burns total, but I condensed it. That was literally the whole second season, as best as I could remember it.
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