I find that show can often be pretty wry! Why the contempt?

I don't think you mean the word "apathetic".

"Dominative" isn't a word — maybe the author means "dominant"?

I wonder if the author here is familiar mostly with t.v. and movies rather than other forms of literature. This show has a lot of sophisticated writing that is based on science and literature. It seems like the people who review and comment are not so familiar with books — I wonder if they have read Robert Musil's…