By the time we get to Black Rabbit ’s final flashback intro — the show’s go-to narrative framing device — the lore of the original Black Rabbit crew coming together is well established. The actual scene of the team assembling plays out pretty much as the lore would suggest. Jake is sweating bullets, having just quit his job and signed a $30,000-a-month lease on the new restaurant. Vince is telling him, “It’s not a prison sentence.” Wes and Estelle are conveniently having their meet-cute by the jukebox, while Roxie and Tony are back in the kitchen, about to be swept up in the “Isle of Joy” Vince is desperately trying to build.

Most of these flashback intros have reiterated the same thing: You’re about to watch a found family fall apart. And we’ve been through this episodic structure enou

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