Another great episode with amazing performances and Henry Winkler once again proves why he's the best actor in this show.
The camera work is impeccable as always and the transitions are amazing. The way they decided to visualize Barry's childhood flashbacks and "what could've been" fantasies in the desert and transitioning from the prison cell to there and to other places is just brilliant and shows how much care and love went into writing and making this show.
The cinematography is never boring. Even when there's a long 2-minute meeting with only dialogue, the camera is always moving and captures interesting shots instead of having a long stationary shot focused on a boring dialogue. Though some could argue that the camerawork might be often distracting and too obvious and immersion-breaking, which is a valid nitpick to some degree, but I think it's refreshing to see that they carefully craft every scene to make it as interesting and entertaining as possible. So I think the cinematography, direction, and camerawork of this show as a whole are just brilliant and they take advantage of cinematography in the best way possible.
Even though it's not (yet?) as obvious as say when they took a jab at Netflix's algorithm that just cancels shows on a whim in the previous season, I think we can see that they are kinda hinting at how social media and the media and people in general react to news like this how they just judge, jury, and execute even though they even don't know half of it.
And now for this final season, we have Gene Cousineau big braining to achieve... a goal I guess? I'm still not entirely sure why Gene is doing what he's doing and what his end goal is, but he's doing a good job at accomplishing it because we all know Gene is a great actor!
And the comedy of this episode is just gold and it's somehow even funnier than the first episode.
The plot line of Hank and Cristobal also gets more interesting and intertwined with Barry's at the end of this episode and we'll have to wait to see what crazy events this is gonna lead to.
I also appreciate them not wasting their time and our time with cliché prison stories we've seen a million times before, and just being a little realistic about Barry's situation and executing new ideas and inventive ways of storytelling.
Overall, this was aother great episode into the last season. Twice the funniness of the first episode and plot lines moving actually fast and shifting gears left and right . I just wish the episode were half an hour longer.