Eight episodes down, only two left to go, I’m gonna go right ahead and say Season 11 is as much a dud as Season 10. Of those eight episodes, I’ve only liked three: “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat”, “Kitten”, and “Ghouli”. Everything else has been insipid.
At this point, I’m just gonna run with the idea that the last movie and last two seasons all take place in the parallel universe from the ninth season episode “4-D”. That’s why the present characterization and mytharc doesn’t align with that of past seasons; that’s why no one talks about Doggett; that’s why CSM isn’t a small pile of ash.