I cannot believe they had a back-from-the-brink-of-death, 'come back to me my love', choosing life or death in purgatory, dragged down into the depths, hearing Stede's voice, fighting to get back to him, mermaid!Stede coming to the rescue, Stede staying by his side and crying, begging him to wake up, reunion.

Okay but on a serious note Con O'Neill ate in these first few episodes and left no fucking crumbs. Last season we ended on deranged Izzy; now we have an Izzy realizing how toxic things can really get and WISHING he could go back to the days when he was the only proper pirate among muppets. And he's TRYING so damn hard and it would be so easy to play that in a cheesy or insincere manner, but we have Con O'Neill swinging for the fences, crying, begging for death, disheveled, trying to undo everything he did to get us all in this mess and failing and looking both miserable and delighted in his misery because he's getting what he thinks he deserves.

I just remembered…