i really am starting to put the pieces together now, it feels like the theme of this season was "running from the law". i feel like Burt concocting a ridiculous schizo theory, but its starting to make sense. the several references to jail, the laughter about the twist in the investor stream, the jumping from house to house, knowing they were already at risk of getting kicked out... im not saying this was their preferred outcome, im sure they wanted to make it to the end, but they knew this shit could get shut down at any moment and thought they could get away with it, and now its backfired horribly. im honestly sick of seething at production, it requires too much negative energy, but im KIND OF getting the people calling them scammers, although i still see it as more of irresponsibility than maliciousness. if you're going to be irresponsible with other people's money, you might get called a scammer. it'd also explain the season pass price drop from $60 to $10, as if they knew it might not make it the full six weeks to minimize backlash.
the main thing holding me back from going all out on them is that i hate karens, tattle tale boomers and bureaucrats far more than i could ever hate them for being incompetent, because at the end of the day, i love their show and they're actually creating something, not destroying.