Seaon 1 Episode 4: Please, Carol
Air Date: November 21, 2025
Synopsis: Carol tests the boundaries of this weirdly honest world at the expense of her ego. Far away, a resolute individual learns he’s not alone.
Directed by: Zetna Fuentes
Written by: Alison Tatlock
Well, at least she stopped driving the shitty truck.
This episode felt like twenty minutes of material stretched out to an hour. The intro scene, much like the Sprouts one last week, just went on way too long. We all knew what was going to happen but it’s spelled out for us anyway.
And of course just as the episode starts getting good, it ends.
Yeah, this episode gave me Severance season 2 vibes. Hopefully it picks back up because the first two episodes were really well paced, but I’m starting to skip 10 seconds constantly and not missing anything in the shot.
IMO the whole show is about vibes more than advancing the plot.
There’s maybe two paragraphs of plot in the first 4 eps, but the magic is in how it’s presented.
Because it’s an Apple show they can let the stuff breathe and have silent bits where everything isn’t stated out loud for the Netflix drones doomscrolling while they “watch” the show.