[Discussion] Just finished watching 'The 8 show' and felt a bit dissapointed

The show had potential but went completely off the rails in the last 2-3 episodes. It had glaring plotholes, like not just buying items from the courtyard to leave instead of waiting and locking people in, we never got to know who the show was for and I found the psychological torture scenes quite disturbing. It felt like the show took itself wayyyy too seriously and wanted to push a Lord of the flies-esque 'humans suck' narrative when in reality humans in such situations tend to collaborate lol like the real-life Lord of the flies.

Ofc this was different bc they needed to create drama and conflict to stay longer but it felt like the show was giving " Look how far desperate humans will fall" and kinda of failed bc of far they went