I can also say I felt this was way too much underhelming and borderline cliché. Stan's outburst is just meh... Completely uncalled and unprovoked and the way his attitude switches suddenly it's just cringy. There's been some moments I liked less in previous episodes or even in GGGB, but nonetheless things seemed to make some kind of sense, but this is the first time I feel like this was actually bad writing on Eva's behalf. We know from the past that she struggles with this character and here it totally shows. From my point of view, if you have no idea where to go with a certain character and how it's arch is going to develop, it's better to just ignore it and move on. I'd rather she had done with Stan the same she's done with Ed, then to go down this road.
Gillian's return also feels a bit forced and once again very cliché. I know many people want to see that and I can totally respect it, but to me it's not really adding anything to this story that we haven't already seen a million times in other story's. Maybe in the long run it ends up making sense and Eva proves me wrong, but to be honest this feels totally like a soap opera type of move, which is the same vibe I also got from the Stan's scene and also the same can be said by Louise's behaviour all along, which is why she's always been my least favourite character and the only member of the cast from which I feel zero sympathy. Everything about her is always soap opera drama, which makes her extremely annoying and in my opinion quite unrelatable.
At the moment I'm starting to feel like Eva has lost the ability to understand how tension works and balances itself out in a good story, since she keeps building tension and adding some unnecessary drama, specially from Lena's side, while not providing enough release points with a proper payoff...
It's really a shame to start seeing this story following the soap opera drama route, because Eva clearly is talented and she's capable of much better than this...