This series is slooooow. It promised us a cool mystery about people living in a silo who may or may not need to stay there and are afraid to take the risk and find out. Is this story a one-trick pony? When we're actually allowed to see the point of view of a character venturing outside, will that be it for the whole story?
Why are they dragging this out so painfully with a lot of obvious filler about boring relics and a boring murder mystery about an unimportant character. Oh he wasn't who Juliette though he was? In the first place, why is she so credulous to believe that story and in the second place, I don't care about George's backstory anyway, whether he is good, bad or ugly.
And I gotta talk about the acting. There are a couple actors in this among the ones still alive and kicking who are good. Tim Robbins (the interim mayor) and Harriet Walter (Walk, Juliette's mentor) but their performances just remind me how stilted and uninteresting most of the performances are, including Rebecca Ferguson.
I do like the guy who plays Billings, however or maybe I like the character. He doesn't seem like a great pick for sherrif, just an average guy trying to get by. No doubt he's the pick of the powers-that-be because he's malleable.
The end of the episode has a reveal that is not actually all that surprising but at least it represents some forward progress.