After the dud that was the previous episode, I can actually start to forgive the show with this amazing return to form.
I'm tempted to say it's an homage to the wonderful movie "if..." for its themes of authoritarian schools and interplay of color with black and white but rather than switch between them Heimat style, they do the Schindler's List thing except a a thousand times better.
A brutal and riveting depiction of adultist bullying is our first act and it really got under my skin. We then have a delicious narrative of inspiring rebellion but as always, there are no easy answers in this infernal world.
Nanno here plays the role of heroin and since she's up against powerful, unsympathetic characters the whole thing is less of the horror series it usually is and more of a smoldering thriller as fighting back becomes more and more inevitable. But don't worry, there are few twists in the process that does punched into me, not only a pertinent message about how we can undermine the corrupt and powerful, but also a renewed hunger for social justice that Greta Thunberg tried so hard to do.
Cinematic and tense, comedic and no less terrifying because of it, not a typical episode but exemplar of what this show can bring.