Actually, tonight's Critical Role should be very character oriented. I don't want to ruin anything for KahlessNestor since he mentioned not seeing last week's episode yet. I don't know if it will be a great jumping in point, but as he said, the best thing about Critical Role is that the players take the ROLE part of RPG extremely seriously. The in-character stuff is amazing. People complain that one player is extremely annoying, but she's just playing her character's low charisma perfectly. Two of the players are playing twins and they play the brother-sister dynamic very well. etc.
Matt Mercer will give you DM-envy. You'll wish your DM was Matt or that your DMing was like Matt's. He is that good.