The thing to remember about any TV show: There's a small horde of people in the writers room, all working to execute one person's vision. Sometimes that vision is pure, sometimes it's muddled, sometimes it's compromised by boneheaded executive meddling. https://twitter.com/garywoodburn/status/1253745244652204033

No single person, save the showrunner, can do more than pitch the best ideas they can in the room and turn in the best draft of their script to their ability. What happens to those ideas and those scripts are out of that single person's control.

Occasionally—and only occasionally—all the planets align and you see the same show that the showrunner sees, as do the executives. In that case, you can all work in concert to make the best show possible. If not, then its exponentially harder to produce quality.

So, to answer your question, @garywoodburn, I dunno if you should finish watching it. If you're not enjoying it, I'd say move on to something that you will enjoy. TV should be voluntary and not obligatory. Plenty of fish in the proverbial sea.

As for my involvement beggaring disbelief, what can I say? Every TV show begins with the best of intentions and the grandest of hopes. Given the abundant hurdles between idea and execution, the number of ways for story to go astray, I am constantly amazed when anything is good.