All right, this episode was definitely not one of the stronger ones. While it definitely was not bad, it just felt a bit too middle of the road-y. We do get to know some things about the characters but not enough to keep me entertained for 40+ minutes and it seems like the murder mystery was put on halt in exchange for a lot more generic high school drama that really started to get on my nerves as I could not be bothered to actually care what was happening this time around. We get to know more about Emma in particular but not really in interesting ways that reaches above just being very typical teenage love drama that we have seen before. I really hope this is not what this series is going to continue focusing on because there is a story to tell here so do not push it further away to include more high school drama just so you can pad the runtime a bit more. If you feel you do not have a story that justifies being several seasons long then do not write it out to be several seasons long.

This episode also put a lot of focus on making sure the music was too loud in several scenes, I really do not even think the music was necesseray most of the time. It just felt like they were trying to force the emotion the characters are going through down our throats instead of letting the writing and the performances make us feel for them in an organic way. It is a better episode than the pilot but it is a major step back from the past two episodes who really started to build up some momentum - which this episode made sure to get rid off. I am still on board with the show overall but I am keeping my expectations down for the next episode.
- Lucas
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