I watched this over the course of several days on Hulu, and I enjoyed the gripping drama, but I had to suspend quite a lot of disbelief. As other reviews have pointed out, quite a few logical inconsistencies show up in the series, from some unbelievable character choices to some established facts being contradicted in later episodes. The writers did a wonderful job of keeping my interest in the struggles of these characters to get their crazy lives together. Unfortunately, by the end, it's clear none of them has, and most who seemed to have had some backbone at some point ultimately dropped their spines for the sake of some magical mumbo jumbo. And that's where the real problem of the show comes out. Though the series does a great job of depicting the corrupt and amoral workings of a cult's leadership, the plot's final verdict seems to be that if a cult is nice to people, everything is okay. It's not. Cults are destructive, evil things that should be avoided, ridiculed, and shunned by society at large. Any organization or person who offers magical answers to real life problems is dishonest and cannot be trusted.
