I agree with your analysis...the show itself has some really bad production values...the editing is TERRIBLE...they've patched the scenes together in a rush...they were racing through half the scenes today and I couldn't tell what was happening.
Only thing that did register on me was the MAGNETISM of MR which has not dimmed one bit in all this time...it shines brighter if anything else...he looked AMAZING...the style, the AURA of the man is as unmatched as ever...in one bit when he put his foot on the wheel of the jeep just before they were about to arrest that guy, I was reminded of the time of Dutta's entry and when him and Baaji were giving a ride to Nakku and her family in their jeep and they stopped at a dhaaba...lol
MR got everything in this epi...a stern look, action sequences (two of them...he beat up one abusive husband and then that underworld don guy...lol), a scene with his MOTHER...lol, a romantic scene asking a girl out for a date...lol...tashan bhi poora in his dialogues...no nonsense cop.
And the icing on the cake...he's in a lawyer look in the precap😆...Now even if the Nikhil Advani movie takes a while to air, we've got our fill of MR in uniforms...lol
I don't have much hope from the actual story...but MR's screen presence made up for it...Looking forward to two more epis of him...lol