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A technically competent and visually pleasing show marred by a facile interpretation of the inner lives of young people.

What started as a (probably) well-intentioned story has, over the course of the season, morphed from subtextually Freudian to blatantly so. The overarching plot could have been a good analysis of the challenges faced by teens, especially girls, in society, but the lead writer's total lack of comprehension regarding said challenges (especially the difficulties of being an outlier in gender identity or sexual orientation) leave a bad impression. Will likely be completely irredeemable by the final episode, regardless of how "pretty" it is.

When the writing ... tries to be progressive and speak on social and cultural issues, it falls flat and derails its own message. If you watch, prepare yourself for:

- binary biological gender essentialism
- weird romanticizing of little girls when it seemed like the show was trying to critique that
- unnecessary edginess to make the point that bad people are bad
- [POTENTIAL SPOILERS] the sexual assault of a trans character shown onscreen
- [SPOILERS] suddenly introduced larger villain whose supposed influence on the big plot makes no sense
- and more nonsense!