The banter is cheerful; the will-they-or-won't-they is bit cutesy. But American Auto feels like it's closing in on something edgier.

The first episode, where the group is in the middle of the Hydra rolling crisis, doesn’t exactly reestablish what each person’s role is in the company, but definitely goes a long way of reestablishing their characters, just by showing how they’re reacting to the ever-escalating crisis. ... The second episode shows that the storytelling is still a little inconsistent.