1.   Amy Brenneman is leaving the show, so policewoman Janice Licalsi will be gone after the second episode.

2.   And the second episode is a disjointed salute, more or less, to Bob Dylan.

3.   Bill Sims, whom we learn is a blues singer in the second episode and whose plaintive voice is heard throughout the series singing original compositions, is black.

4.   Actress Sara Rue has a scene in the second episode where she movingly discusses her weight problem.

5.   But overall the second episode is by far the more gripping.

6.   By the second episode, the New Orleans flavor has already been diminished.

7.   Cromwell was too polite to suggest, even before he had the job, that citizen Baines might be picketing a fast-food joint in the second episode.

8.   During the second episode, Gene coaches the boys in a soccer game and throws out his back.

9.   For Jenna, the alleged incident was the second episode involving underage drinking in a month.

10.   In a marvelous second episode, for instance, we learn just how difficult life is for superhero sidekicks when Arthur falls in with some disgruntled ones.