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S3, E3: “Murphy experiences being truly alone in an unfamiliar place and begins to realize how helpless she is without her friends.” It’s worth wading through all the lazy writing and formulaic dialogue to get to the impact of this one genuinely honest and well-executed episode - the only episode that had the substance every other 2D rendition lacked. If every episode looked more like this, I’d have great respect for the creator and the team. Vince Gilligan does it. David Fincher does it. Don’t get me wrong, the subject and overall plot are solid. Sadly, they had one good episode in them (perhaps two - including the first) that managed to reveal something beautiful and genuine in a corner of the human condition many know little about. For most of the time, though, they played it safe and rode the cache of a blind self-sabotaging protagonist who, despite the gut wrenching sympathy evoked in the one powerful episode I’ve mentioned, just becomes really annoying.