It's entertains it's sheer brilliance of almost intentional misfires, cliches, and horrible writing...it's hamfisted and on the nose about 95% of the time, and it entertains for this reason....I am not moved by the characters, nor sold on their motivations, or circumstances in which they find themselves....so, yesterdays episode:
The cocaine binge was over the top, and ineffective in establishing what I thought was Ray's bleak and miserable outlook....He did a good job, but they went way overboard, less is more with cocaine scenes....coming from someone who did A LOT of coke for many years, as a 17 year old kid.....the scene just isn't believable, and the soundtrack was all off, a slight score and a few lines, focusing more on the drugs depressive qualities would have been much more effective....As it was, it almost played as a scene in a 'Horrible Bosses' type comedy....
The knife foreshadowing is just too much at this point, we got the whole very telegraphed since ep. 1 Chekovs Knife thing....Ani mutilating her workout board moments before the party was just overkill....
Pauls scene's were near unwatchable, just dull writing and mediocre acting from Kitsch....
The 'elite power circle' orgy parties scenes were the small glimpses of what a more focused and better written show may have been....Not that this hasn't been done do death, but it's an age old urban legend that is always of interest...For all the houses in LA, that one was kind of unspectacular, but the music helped generate tension on the opening shots, and the bus trek....It's VERY hard to believe the conceit, that dozens of hookers participate in these events with well known and unknown '1%'ers' and no one is the wiser......but, the show sold it well enough.
That said, the whole plot was straight out of bad 80's and 90's thrillers and near Scooby Doo in it's execuetion.....Paul and Ray are going to just disperse with the guards, enter the house and find something incriminating? Hell of a plan. And Ani was going to hold out for how long, and what purpose? What the fukk was the thinking there? Is it really reasonable to assume incriminating documents (theres signatures all over these contracts() would be just laying around a house used for wealthy/creepy/connected politico/business orgy type parties? Maybe a rental would work better, I heard you can do that.
The Molly/PTSD thing has been discussed, and it's not a huge plot hole....those scenes were well played enough, never really carrying the weight or danger the show would like though. It never felt much more then a bad De Palma imitation as someone suggested. It's queasy and creepy, but Ani never seemed in danger. The men were familiar tropes. And the midnight charge into the full moon was just ridiculous.
This. Maybe I was just wanted to see Ani get smutted up at that orgy after all that cock talk at the addicts meeting and watching DP movies . The buildup to it was great, till Ani found a knife right on the table before walking up with old dude
From finding the signatures with very little effort, to getting by the 
security, to how they drove off in the moonlight. The effortless of executing the plan made the buildup to the orgy collapse like a house of cards.
