I think this season just lost the thread. it had elements that worked well, sometimes (Dylan and Gretchen; Ms. Huang, Mr. Milchick, Gemma) and a whole lot that doesn’t (anything involving “Kier”, the overall narrative momentum, the world building). I missed Ricken. Ending sort of worked but the characters remain just too thinly drawn and the setting too incoherent for me to care about their plight very much.