Also the constant switching of POV from second to first and back confused me,
Well, it didn't seem 'constant' to me, just one section that probably seemed longer than it actually was because I was over-sensitized to 2nd person narration from the previous episode (whose POV, as I explained in its thread, I accepted at the time, but which did saturate me for 2nd-person for a while).
I bet that in print (or pixels) it's a lot less confusing. I'm trying to think of a way to make it less confusing in audio but drawing a blank.
When people actually talk that way in real life, misunderstandings are a lot rarer (except in sitcoms). Part of that is context and part of it is pronunciation. In this case, we had the context, so, while I primed for, and therefore leery of, 2nd person, I also did suspect that it was exposition in a conversational style, which, of course, it turned out to be*.
What we didn't have was the pronunciation aspect. When we talk like that, we don't carefully pronounce all the pronouns, as in: "
You know how when
you talk in 2nd person but
you don't really mean it as a literal 2nd person description but are, rather, using it to illustrate a hypothetical situation that the person
you're talking to may or may not actually have ever been in, but
you hope they can at least imagine?"
Instead, we say "Y' know how when y' talk in 2nd person...". I think that if the narrator had done this, or even been closer to it, most of us would have understood the hypotheticality of it right away. That said, I did like the narration. This was an aspect that might have helped the listener, is all.
*Is there a word for that? Some case or tense or whatever?