I will agree with this, the transition did feel jarring. Now narratively it did work, it did connect Kamala with some of her heritage, and gave her and her mother a chance to bond.... but it also consumed a fair bit of time, and probably could have been mostly handled in the Jersey setting without too much trouble.My big takeaway from the first season is maybe the Karachi stuff would have worked better in the second season. The two opening episodes did such a great job establishing Kamala in Jersey City; putting a character in a place like all good fiction is supposed to do (well, most), bringing both to life that when the action moved to Karachi it felt jarring. Something was lost.
Than second season could be mostly focused on Karachi.