Glad it's not just me that gets the black screen, but I was able to watch it a little earlier and while the episode itself was fantastic, the focusing and shaky-cam should definitely be remedied in the future.
I watched during Desert Bus and saw most of the clubbing happen, but I didn't know Alex had strapped all those club sodas to him back then! Awesome how I'm still finding out things that I missed in November, even though I had it on as background noise basically 24/7 (thank you free internet).