Christina Ricci and Jenny Lewis carry this entire ill-conceived series on the backs of their respective (massive) talents, but that doesn't mean they can make it good.
The truth is, this series is lurid, it's grim, it's unreasonably mean (every character has the meanest possible reaction to every plot development, constantly) and totally contrived. It is also *far* too interested in the sex lives of all of our characters when that really has nothing to do with the central mysteries playing out at a glacial pace across the season except make them even slower.
This should have been a one-season limited series, not truly having enough meat on its narrative bones to sustain interest much longer than that.
If you insist on watching this show, I recommend taking a metaphorical shower after every episode - personally, I would watch something with adults behaving reasonably and treating each other with a baseline element of respect. This crap can rot your brain if you live in it too long.
The truth is, this series is lurid, it's grim, it's unreasonably mean (every character has the meanest possible reaction to every plot development, constantly) and totally contrived. It is also *far* too interested in the sex lives of all of our characters when that really has nothing to do with the central mysteries playing out at a glacial pace across the season except make them even slower.
This should have been a one-season limited series, not truly having enough meat on its narrative bones to sustain interest much longer than that.
If you insist on watching this show, I recommend taking a metaphorical shower after every episode - personally, I would watch something with adults behaving reasonably and treating each other with a baseline element of respect. This crap can rot your brain if you live in it too long.