I’ve only seen the first three so far. Seems like there’s general agreement in the episode quality.
Episode 1 “Common People” was the most memorable for me. I feel like it’s the one you could easily recommend to someone who hasn’t seen the series yet. The idea was good. The story worked. It had a really bleak ending.
Episode 2 “Béte Noire” as others have said started out well, but the end was bad. Not enough to ruin it, since it was basically the last 5 minutes. Overall enjoyable, but probably a forgettable episode.
Episode 3 “Hotel Reverie” was weak. Way too long for what it was, and a bit unfocused. I thought Issa Rae’s acting was bad. I think at some level it was sort of supposed to be (like when she plays piano), but other times there was a big disconnect between the classic movie style acting of the old movie, and what the character Brandy was doing. The movie they were making would have been truly terrible. It also felt like the tech that was central to the episode was designed to serve the various plot points instead of developing a plot around the tech (For example, the idea that the classic film’s actress retained her own personality instead of just the movie character, and the idea that she’d die if she was taken out.). And the episode was too unfocused. There’s the tech part and the crisis it creates, at the start of the episode, then you get this love story in the middle, and then it feels like the love story mostly stops as we get to the crisis again to resolve the story. That’s not to say the episode was terrible or not worth watching. But it was easily the worst of the bunch.