It's bad enough that the contrived problems keeping the sundry characters from getting to the main problem even happened in the first place... Watching them fail and then have to try to solve them twice is painful. Argyle doesn't work. Indiana sheriff Hopper being stuck in a grim Soviet prison because of a supernatural portal doesn't work. Joyce has never really worked.
You wouldn't think after three seasons a show like this would have problems earning its emotional beats, but this episode and it's slow Soviet prison scenes sure show it can happen.
You wouldn't think after three seasons a show like this would have problems earning its emotional beats, but this episode and it's slow Soviet prison scenes sure show it can happen.