Clear change in writers compared with earlier seasons/episodes.
This episode serves as a microcosm for what's wrong with a great many shows and movies in the modern era: writers who apparently have more experience on Twitter than they do in the real world.
Characters are reduced to one-dimensional caricatures of themselves. Pretentious politically charged dialogue that serves as a heavy-handed allegory for modern politics. Characters being used as a direct mouthpiece for the writer's own political views (Shivan). All of this sums up to interactions between characters that don't feel believable nor are they engaging.
This episode serves as a microcosm for what's wrong with a great many shows and movies in the modern era: writers who apparently have more experience on Twitter than they do in the real world.
Characters are reduced to one-dimensional caricatures of themselves. Pretentious politically charged dialogue that serves as a heavy-handed allegory for modern politics. Characters being used as a direct mouthpiece for the writer's own political views (Shivan). All of this sums up to interactions between characters that don't feel believable nor are they engaging.