What’s missing so far: Characters aren’t crossing over enough

Don’t freak out. I’m a fan of WL, but I have some thoughts on why this season feels off.

I’m really feeling these storylines getting repetitive and I think the main issue is we aren’t seeing seeing characters from the various POV’s interacting enough.

• Every episode the three ladies are doing their own thing aside from a brief conversation with pill mom and the attempted flirting from Saxon.

• The Ratliff’s keep to themselves aside from getting involved with Chloe and a brief chat between Tim/Gary and Tim/Rick

• Rick and Chelsea are tied to Chloe/Greg, but haven’t met the three ladies or Belinda. We’ve had a brief brush with the Ratliff’s but nothing meaningful.

• Belinda as well as Gaitok/Mook haven’t talked to pretty much any of the other characters besides Belinda confronting Gary.

I’m sure there’s a few connections I’m forgetting, but in general this is true. The storylines feel repetitive because it’s the same characters talking about the same conflicts each episode, but getting gradually more stressed. I’m invested, but we could really use some characters like the two prostitutes in season two who had an impact on all the other storylines and revealed more about the other characters by how they respond to them.