I didn't particularly love the premier but I'm often willing to forgive a lot in a premier - it's a tricky thing to avoid painful exposition and hack lines to establish character personalities. So I ignored all that and just focused on the basic premise and action. Seemed like there was potential if they could get past the awkward writing.
Instead they ratcheted up all of those problems in the 2nd. Abysmal expositional dialog ("...back when we were stationed together in Peru." Who SAYS that shjt?), every stupid side gag becoming a call back in act 3 (safety card, coaster...) and awful awful awful attempt at character development ("You only need part of the answer").
Maybe all of that was there in the first one and I didn't notice/remember. I did watch it in a hotel room, which, similar to the airplane effect, gives movies/tv an artificial entertainment bump. But that's neither here nor there. This episode was atrocious.
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