they have so many characters and so many dynamics to explore but they dont know how to juggle all of that so they create new characters to play off the main ones and have some sort of justification for this single character's trait (lisa to have nat die instead of a child, crystal to misty's kill my best friend sobbing, melissa to shauna's rageful paranoic urges) even when in previous seasons they didnt exist (crystal and melissa, in either timeline they werent traces of these traumas until s2) and/or in next ones theyre not touched upon (lisa non-existance in s3).
this, with the refusal to explain anything to the older cast and in the present timeline, makes the watching experience infuriating because they set up things just to drop them the next episode making it pointless to be invested (taivan conflict about the supernatural and lottie's significance in van's life doesnt exist in adult timeline) (genlissa and akilahmari friendships are forgotten because they are casted in new roles in s3 and need to be focused in other characters) (travnat and taishauna emotional intimacy is dropped without explanation because the conflicts they have this season could not be happening if they mantain those relationships).
And about the plot... is just the shocking revelations put at the end of the ep or in the teaser for the next one, and it's just getting glossed over in the next scene.
