This is my whole point: the only opinions you consider valid are your own and the few commenters who agree with you. The series has gotten great reviews across the board from actual TV critics (not that this necessarily means anything, but it’s true).

I think a lot of people here don’t understand the feeling of leaning into a bad choice but still going for it in the moment. Camille isn’t imagining some happy ending for her and John. She knew it was a dumb thing to do. She also knows/feels that there’s no turning back from what her life has already become so why not…

John said his sister’s nails were painted, and that she would never have painted her own nails.

I’m almost positive it’ll be possible to charge Alan with a lot more than just “knowing and not stopping it”.

And the nurse in last night’s episode was working in a methadone clinic. But that’s what I was thinking, that a party pill and a clinic don’t really reflect how pervasive it is in these small towns. If it was more present, that would do more for me to believe anyone staying in a town which seems to have a motto of Welc…

My wife, who read the book before me, feels the same way. While I haven’t loved the pace, I can see what they’re trying to do with it in terms of mood (both of the place and the mindset of the central character). It works for what it is. I won’t argue over the continuity issues, though they are explainable.

For the record, I feel she was completely in the wrong to hook up with John Keene, regardless of gender. It was a stupid deplorable act. Don’t mistake my meaning in my previous comment. I would feel that way gender swapped or not. The show and characters — especially Willis — narratively said what should have been…

The previous episode has Camille and Amma going to a houseparty where Amma gives her oxy before taking them in and then they take X. Feels accurate.

What do you think Jackie was saying with her box o’ fun times candy that she gives Camille? She’s on benzos and vodka every damn day. No need for opiates if you’ve been drugged up since the 80s. 

Adora telling Alan to “go listen to your music” was chilling. He knows what’s happening. All those shots of him all season with his music means he’s internalized his guilt of knowing and barely keeping it together.

I find this show really difficult to watch but I force myself through it because it’s so good. Usually I’m relieved when an episode ends but this one ended too soon. I don’t want to wait to find out what happens!

It’s an unspoken agreement between the sexes: Women are paid less but get to bang 18 year old dudes.

Actually, if a male had been through tremendous trauma and who we empathized with through the entire series did this we wouldn’t condone their actions but we would have some sympathy for the character as a whole. That’s my opinion. We’ve grown to know Camille through seven episodes. Of course, there can be a double…

Broken people often tend to attract each other as they can somewhat empathize with each other's pain. 

Adora couldn’t have done it alone, though - there’s no way someone like her, traumatized by a prick from a rosebud, has the strength to wrench teeth from a corpse’s head. So who’s helping out? Her husband? Is that why he seems so wracked with guilt? Or the chief, who seems to always be at her beck and call? Bob Nash,…

I think she nodded her head towards the blood stain she found on the floor and cleaned up a few episodes back. She didn’t know where John Keene was, but she was able to give them the evidence they need to lock him up.

but watching Adora grind down pills with her pestle and stare intently at her brightly-colored vials doesn’t conjure images of a green-faced, bolt-necked beast: I think of Dr. Frankenstein, the man who made the monster—and became a monster—because he wanted to be as powerful, as extraordinary, as God. Adora has been…

Well that was a gut punch of an episode. Camille making bad decisions, but you’d have no heart if you can’t empathize with what she’s been through. I’ll say the same for John Keene. Even his two-faced adoring girlfriend abandons him, as expected.

This episode successfully rebutted the complaint that the murder mystery wasn’t moving fast enough,or was on the backburner while a dull drama was playing out.

That was brilliant. We were clued into the twist early with regards to Adora but the slow reveals as seen through the eyes of Camille, most especially with the aunt (Perkins) was masterclass. Motive to come but ending the episode with a 110 year old song, a song (Down in the Willow Garden) I heard my grandmother…