I think I'm not really feeling the stakes yet. Also the TVA agents being all "oh no the timelines are being pruned" when a day ago that was literally all they did isn't quite landing for me either. I get it, "this changes everything", but I dunno, it feels like the development there's been a bit rushed.
And yeah, when you've only got six episodes, spending the majority of one of them on Brad... ehhh. But supposedly this was considered the only bad episode from people who saw the first four, so I'm not losing hope for the season or anything.