Second episode was... Different. It worse in a sense, that it felt slower, potentially much slower than it should have been, yet that slowness was not helping build atmosphere, as it probably could (and possibly should not have). It was better in a sense that it still felt more balanced, since we did not get the chasing sequence for half the episode. We also had more Eleina, and some dialogues suggests that she is a badass.
But I am mostly posting this, because I forgot one important thing in my reaction to 1st episode: drugs do not mutate. Existing organism does not mutate in the first place, since mutation is technically happening during creation of the organism (or a organic cell to be more generic), but drugs are not even organisms. Even if that was the case, the way drugs are tested, they would have caught the mutation 3 years in, because testing takes a decade on average. I know we need to just accept it for the "suspension of disbelief", but I think it's important to nitpick this thing.
Another concern I have is... Why a small group? Would it not make more sense to get as many people involved in the search as possible? I also do not see much of a point in a competition here, but I know that it's just me.
