'Jamestown' Recap: Season 2, Episode 5

Previously on Jamestown: James Read experiences a personal tragedy, Henry gets married, Jocelyn makes an extremely poor romantic decision, and the Governor’s plot to swindle the natives doesn’t work out as planned. It’s a soapy romp, and the best episode of Season 2 thus far. Read our full recap of Episode 4 for more details.

Reminder: Jamestown is a WETA Passport-exclusive series, meaning that in order to watch it, you’ll need to be a WETA Passport member (If you have Amazon Prime, you’ll also be able to watch the series week-by-week over on the PBS Masterpiece channel.)

Jamestown, it seems, has settled into a pattern in Season 2 – one that involves an exceptionally entertaining episode one week, followed by a disappointingly mediocre one the next. Last week’s installment was a soapy romp; this week’s is an uncomfortable and generally painful slog, focusing on characters we’ve never really cared about a plot we know from the jump won’t go anywhere interesting.