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The chorus of complaints about S4 being 'confusing' or 'a mess' is the best unintentional compliment it could get. Its a perfect self-report that you fundamentally misunderstood the project because you were expecting a normal tv show. Season 4 was designed from the ground up to be actively hostile to the passive viewer, it was an elaborate filtration system. Unlike the packaged content meals you get from other reality shows, designed for you to half-watch while scrolling your phone, S4 demanded you work for every single scrap of narrative and it punished you for not paying close enough attention. The jarring cuts, the deafening noise blasts, the lingering on empty rooms while chaos erupted elsewhere—that wasnt a production flaw, that was the entire point. It was a test designed to shake off the tourists and the youtube clippers. For those of us who embraced the chaos and treated the feeds like a puzzle to be solved, we were rewarded with a depth of experience that is simply incomprehensible to an outsider. So when you say the show 'pushed you away,' you arent lodging a criticism, your simply announcing that you failed its entrance exam. You're admitting out loud that the show’s primary artistic goal of filtering out the passive consumer worked flawlessly on you. It wasnt a show for everyone, it was for us, and the fact you felt alienated isnt a sign of its failure, but its triumphant, unapologetic success.