It would be false to claim that this series had no problems right at the beginning. No, it is not true. But, i'm gonna be wrong if i'll say that the whole series was bad, as well. Half of it was actually good(more or less), first half of course. Certainly, right from the start you can noticed unnatural and cringy staging/directing, poorly written dialogues and good cast that really tries to overcome bad directing. Speaking about the good thing: this show does cliffhangers and development(in the first half) a way better than most of GENERALLY PRAISED "GOAT" TV SHOWS, shooting( frames and picture set up) ain't gonna bore you, the cast is right fit, emotional pressure(appealed to the viewer) is high, though, clumsy and badly written sometimes. And you know, what can spoil the show? The most common problem that i meet all over( aside from just grey emptiness) is lack of ability to develop good part/good ideas that you've already had. You know when your good, worked out part of work is all in, and right after that every single one of those "genius" directors, writers and other starts to think that they are more than casual talentless jokers, that maybe just got lucky with couple of random decisions, they just start to think that they know something. Sure, they don't. They don't know a thing. That's why last episode of this show looks like a big big nail to the coffin. It is just looks like some guy with not that much or a brain wrote it all down, on the big wave of thinking how great is his writing, though he doesn't even give a damn about unfinished lines, about illusory connections between what we see on the screen and where it leeds us in the finals. Sick of it, honestly
P. S. No s***, writing is the biggest problem in cinema!