Some of my favourite shows have a very slow pace. But so much of this story was frontloaded in the first 2 episodes, it created a stark difference in pacing compared with the rest of the season. I thought it’d likely return to the fast pace in the finale. I imagined Gilligan’s process setting up the premise and having some big twist planned, with the middle episodes mostly serving as a means to get there. But now it seems like he just came up with the premise and once established, now wants to explore it slowly and methodically. That’s totally fine for me, but can totally understand it having less widespread appeal than how it initially seemed