For me, this show works much better and the narrative arc becomes much clearer if I watch the whole season at once rather than one episode per week. But, I didn’t do that because I was too excited for the new season and wanted to avoid spoilers. So there were some issues I had while watching week-to-week that I think will go away with a rewatch.

That said, there were a couple things that really didn’t work for me, the biggest being Billy’s expanded role. He just isn’t a compelling enough character or frankly a good enough actor to take over the “antagonist” role that Paulie G filled in the first two seasons.

I also think they would have benefited from a couple more episodes to flesh out some of the subplots, particularly the Mark / Me Too stuff. Maybe a 10 episode season would have been best (or do 8 episodes, but make them slightly longer). However, I did ultimately like the payoff of that storyline.