i think another reason this finale felt so fucking hollow and disrespectful is because i see so much of myself in maya and cody. living in small town PNW and having to fight tooth and nail against texas and california multimillionaire gentrification is an exhausting full-time job. i cried when brennan said he did actual homework about actual small pnw towns, when nancy was a fully fleshed out npc, when maya was bite-y and combatant--because that's what our reality is like and it was being reflected truthfully! it didn't feel fake!
but then toward the end of the season, more truth got revealed and it was just... more city people making fun of small town leftists for their own profit. sure, bigfoot (brennan) broke the fourth wall to encourage people to get into their own local politics. but the focus of the season so quickly became "murder the gentrifiers" when the people at the table are also the ones doing gentrification. we just happen to like them because they're the intrepid heroes.
i don't know. i have a hard time with the messaging on this one. i try not to take topics like this seriously when they don't come from small town folk but jeez, they fumbled the ball so fucking hard.