I keep sticking by this show but I'm not sure why. This episode was boring, but I see it as setting the stage, which is okay. The premise of this season does not look promising though, except for the "radicalized Muslim" case.

I just want to know whether Gunther is really doing any of this or if it's all an hallucination. I'm not sure I care about anything else. Watching Noah self-destruct and Helen still be in love with him is incredibly painful. Alison/Cole storyline this season is mind-bogglingly boring. I don't buy that they'd have sex…

The custody story line is BORING. Wish they'd shown Alison's decision to take the daughter to Noah and check herself in to an institution rather than a boring legal custody battle. Fragile, tentative Alison is BORING also. She has no spark at all anymore.

To me, the point was Helen is clearly still in love with Noah and it became clear to Vic in this episode. Also, there was the whole issue that she could be endangering the family if someone's out to get Noah, although that's kind of flimsy.

I feel like he knew what he was getting into. Helen had a lot of baggage. At some point he hoped for more, I guess, and Noah being there was the last straw.

Me too. I always fast forward through it. Hearing it once was enough.

The medical stuff was soooo boring and gory and endless. Not what I watch this show for. What was the point? Obviously Spector's going to live or there wouldn't be a show. What was the deal with nurse who looks like his victims? Is he going to miraculously recover and jump up and kill her? But then Stella gives that…

I'm only on the 2nd episode and I'm having trouble understanding how a British lawyer is representing an American death row defendant. She doesn't even live in the US. She flies all the way back home in the first episode, in a situation where that would be pretty unlikely. Usually death penalty cases are represented…

I thought Helen's doctor BF was an alcoholic? There was no sign of that in this ep. Last season they showed him drinking before going in to work.

Er what? I don't think he was angling for anyone. He's trying to adjust to life outside of prison, feeling lost and was just happy for some human contact with people who didn't seem to care he'd been to prison. He left because he had some kind of PTSD moment triggered by the train horn. Nothing to do with the…

Experience in the "real world" doesn't magically give you writing ability. You can write well regardless of life experience. His advice was incredibly dismissive and didn't address whatever the problems were with the student's piece. He should've dug in and said, it would help if you do x or y, or here's where you…

The preview showed him being taken to the hospital. Although I supposed that could've been a prison flashback? Anyway my takeaway from the preview was that it really happened. I was sure until then either though.

Wow, I had a pretty different take on the episode. It was disappointing it was all Noah, I agree. I didn't read the French professor as being attracted to Noah so much as attracted to a "famous author" who'd "been in prison." She said that explicitly! The old Noah would've loved it. Apparently the new Noah is too…

And he was constantly popping pain meds….addiction?

Haha, that's exactly what I thought about when they focused on her reading her story in the class. I was like, oh oh, Noah's gonna sleep with her… eyeroll. I wonder if his evisceration of her instead was supposed to illustrate how he's changed? Not necessarily for the better, but just how prison changed him.

I didn't think the DA was horrible at all. She was just doing her job. In the end, Chandra did seem like an idiot, which was disappointing. Her boss definitely was a self-aggrandizing jerk.

That was so overdone. It was mildly amusing at times and the symbolism was obvious, but it took up WAY too much time that could've been used for more interesting stuff.

Mixed bag of a finale. I absolutely hated what they did with Chandra. Her character as established wouldn't have kissed Naz or even less likely, snuck the drugs. They didn't show that she was willing to throw away her career for Naz, which was what that amounted to. Even though Stone's closing was really satisfying, I…

Oh, I left the room for a moment during the visitation scene, so I missed that. Also missed the sad eyes, or didn't get the implication. Well, of course, but at first I wasn't sure if he killed himself or if it had been made to look that way.

Me too! As it went on and they showed Naz's flashback to Andrea, I thought, oh, it's a dream, and then it wasn't, to my surprise.