Bruh, you fumbled the bag on a trial that was right there waiting for you. Picking the 90 episode show was already a choice, but blowing the whole free trial on three episodes of what's basically the tutorial arc is next level pain. Those two side characters in episode 2 don't even matter yet anyway, half of them die or get forgotten by episode 20 in most of these shows. Honestly at this point just watch the 12 episode one first so you get a full story in a weekend, then crawl through the long one when you're actually paying.

Bought my 875s back in 2017 for about the same price and felt the same way walking out of the store. Six years later they have been resoled once and the leather looks better now than when they were new. I have beat the crap out of them at job sites and in the rain and they just keep going. The upfront cost stings but you end up paying like fifty bucks a year when you do the math. Cheap boots would have fallen apart three times over by now. Best money I ever spent on footwear, no question.