I haven't read the books but I wasn't expecting much dialog given where S1 ended and Juliette being an introvert. It would feel off if she started monologuing the entire time.
The flashbacks were good too for adding context. A lot of times I don't like them since they tend to be filler so it's good to see them used well. It did scare me though that I though with the dinging noise that she was hearing. I had the fear that she was going to find it being caused by the toy that she fixed. That would have made no sense.
On the try/fail cycle, I really liked that they showed her engineering the tries. It gave it a real feel. What she was doing felt like how I would have gone about it. I have a couple scavenger builds around my house where I acted like that because I didn't want to get dressed and drive to HomeDepot.