Let’s start with the former since the episode does. “Orion” returns primarily to the locations introduced in “Crash,” with most of its time spent in Afghanistan and outside London. But overall, “Orion” didn’t move much forward and felt like one of those transitional episodes that need to exist to get characters from Point A to Point B. I am soothed by the efficiency of Mitsuki taking charge of investigating what happened to Murai, and intrigued by Aneesha’s increasingly cutthroat method of defending her family as she sees the terrorist-boogeyman winds gathering around them.
Trevante haranguing the Afghan man Kuchi (Aziz Çapkurt) who is feeding, healing, and protecting him and accusing Kuchi of serving him “goat piss”: exhausting. Invasion started strong with “Last Day,” expanded its interior world with “Crash,” and then hits a wall of forwarding progress with the deeply uneven “Orion.” A Lord of the Flies retread with Casper and Monty: boring.
