Episode 5

Wow, how the mighty have fallen. The fourth season is a shadow of its former self. The "O" storyline is infuriating. The new schools are a joke. The character development is awful.

I used to like the story, the characters trials and tribulations. Now, this show has become cringe worthy. Another thing, the show used to have the best music; now it seems that they've decided to save some money and gone with generic background musak and sprinkle in a song here and there.

This has been rant surrounding the whole show, but this episode is really awful, and it's the "O" storyline alluded to earlier. The show, while wild and avant garde but used to be grounded in reality. Anyway, watch the first three seasons and just make believe the fourth season didn't happen.

This show started out so edgy and cool, it was fresh, it didn't conform, pick sides or follow set rules of stereotypes which was nice, like every show though they've gone full over to the way the world is going, what I find genuinely scary is people think that this is good or progressive.

The fact they're all in therapy is a bad start but their interactions, their "personalities" they're all fake, there's constant passive aggression, there's control, manipulation and gender domination, but they've masked it behind being "better" people. They're not, so many of these people who grace your phones aren't role models, such a tiny % of people seem to have all forms of entertainment fixated on them and it's getting tiresome, the group Eric joined I felt was too much. It took the tone away from reality to make believe.

This is before you see how bad the writing is, how pathetic the characters are and realising the only people worth watching are the extras, Adam, Amy, Isaac, Jo, Martin and especially ruby have been the stars this series as frankly the main characters are genuinely terrible. Not remotely likeable or endearing, hypocritical children acting like they're deep adults.

Glossing over the fact they look ridiculously old for this stuff, also being 18 why would police need your parents? Or are they still pretending these mid to late twenties people are mid teens? Insanity.

Maeve was once the edgy cool girl but now she's just a mumbly annoying pathetic mess, she's so insanely selfish, self indulgent and narcissistic. Stealing booze? We get the moms died but the writing is so desperately trying to avoid a love story it's spat at quality and made this garbage instead. Maeve uses people, so mean to poor Amy. The whole "cool" vibe died, she's now just a tragic mess.

Gene, was sn afterthought given a storyline to keep her busy rather than involving her properly. Blows my mind they have Rebecca out of Ted lasso and don't use her more.

Eric is so cringe, so easily manipulated and persuaded, he instantly believed Otis no longer gets him, for no reason other than colourful people don't like straight people (but it's ok if it's the other way round) his outfits, acting, just too out of reality for me. Do not understand how this dude is Dr Who! He's just extremely shallow and has lost all the good characteristics he used to have.

Lastly Otis, he's such a drip, he's uncool, however that's irrelevant, the fact is it's ludicrous thinking a supposed kid can walk into a college and just say their a sex therapist and expect it to be so, even more insane that there's already one employees! I know we are in the generation of people pretending to be deep and layered but I can't believe people would queue let alone to see someone like Otis. Kid is a child. He's so immature, over dramatises everything, like this episode,, was an easy excuse, ruby wants revenge, we worked and dozed off, yet it's now a drama? It's so tedious.

His patronising nature, his I know everything voice when his life's a mess and his relationships are literally all unhealthy makes the shoe even more annoying for me. Aesthetically he's not a great looking guy, I find it unbelievable that both ruby and Maeve would be that interested in him. He's another selfish ignorant narcissist.

The extra characters are great.

99% of the storylines are just based on poor communication. This show died in series 2, it's rotten now.

The portrayal of post natal depression in most media more often (when you say, orphan) than not makes me feel weak or small or embarrassed or compartmentalised or judged. This just made me feel relieved. And a little bit less alone.

Gillian Anderson has been phenomenal this whole time, but seeing her nuanced, vulnerable, strong portrayal of early motherhood (and isolation in general) is both heartbreaking and comforting.

The other storylines are a bit hit and miss. But no more than the other seasons. And I assume that's because they cover such a broad range of topics and emotions. The 'misses' from me are likely 'hits' for others.

I was a little late to the party with this show. I powered through the first 3 seasons, but have been slowly getting through this 4th season. It's fallen a bit short. This is not unusual with shows that have been on for awhile or are winding down. Stories get thin and characters become less enjoyable. Eric was the first one to lose me. I loved his character from the beginning but the way he handled the Adam situation was bad in my opinion and frankly made me not like him as much.

The new school this season has the worst people. From the teacher that tried to use the old headmaster for sex to the students that go on about how they don't gossip when they really aren't nice people.

Maeve frustrated me in the last episode when she made her best friends wait in the car for what seemed to be an entire day while she did a crossword puzzle. I've lost my mom, it sucks. But that was rude. I feel like the supporting cast, Aimee, Ruby, Isaac ... have made this season worthwhile.