This is still a weird and quasi-frustrating experience. The thesis - that couture fashion is somehow crucially important in the midst of the chaos and horror of WWII - is not being supported by the drama. We don't see people being dazzled by the fashions, seeing their mood improve, their lives somehow change. We're just being told, over and over. Somebody needs to go back to Screenwriting 101: Show, Don't Tell.
But this episode is better than previous ones. Ben Mendelsohn's performance is very good and Dior is not an odious idiot, like Chanel, who is the most stupidly privileged oblivious moron I've seen on a series in some time.
I think I know what feels off-kilter about her. Her character type is usually reserved for comedy, so we can mock her idiocy. It's weird seeing it played straight here, as though we're supposed to regard her as noble and decent or even tolerable.
But it is gratifying to see her hounded out of Paris, even if it's galling knowing that her privilege insulated her from punishment reserved only for those who weren't personal friends with Winston Churchill. Maybe this series is being written by people just as oblivious as Chanel.