I finally caught up over the weekend... and it's not very good! The actors are great, it navigates the various tones of the sitcoms cannily, but why? I don't see the point. So much of this show is running in place, I'm just sitting through the sitcom pantomimes waiting for when things get weird for 30 seconds at the end (and it doesn't help that I have no affection for the sitcom affectations anyway). Obviously something is going on behind the scenes, but it's like if THE TRUMAN SHOW or CABIN IN THE WOODS waited to cut to the control room until the third act. It mistakes hiding the very premise of the show for being the same thing as presenting a mystery.
And then when it finally starts starts to "reveal" things its not so much a reveal as just a confirmation of what had to have been going on. And more than one scene in the last episode should've been right up front in the first episode. Saving those moments maybe makes those scenes land harder when they finally come, but I'd argue they'd have made all the other scenes in the first several episodes land harder. It would've placed them in a solid emotional context. Instead they opted for mystery box bull****.
And some of the reveals just muddy things. Episode 7 ends with "it was ______ all along!" but then episode 8 is like "yeah but not really. Just kinda?" There'd better be some form of reckoning in the last episode too because where this show has positioned all the pieces and reveals so far has left one of the main characters in a really dark ugly place that I'm not even sure the show is acknowledging.
