Compared to the first season, those 2 episodes were great.
I'd say it's like we're in a 19th century insane asylum and they decided to serve the good gruel. So we're very grateful, we're telling them, "Oh, thank you so much for the good gruel!" Than a new, relatively sane patient arrives and sees what we're eating and tells us, "This is shit, this is awful, why are you eating this?" Than we all look at him and go, "But this is a good gruel, man!"