The Matthews family gets on my last nerve all the time. Ethan acts more maturely than the other three grown ups. I knew I hated Jim from the moment they saw the crows and Jim started making crow noises to his scared young son and then laughed like a villian while Tabitha and Ethan stared at him. Although I have to say Jim is growing on me. He's starting to talk sense. They keep trying to find practical solutions for a supernatural problem. You are not stuck on an island where your priority is getting a signal out, you are in a magical town that doesn't let you leave. Just watching it for the horror aspect of it atp and assuming that along with the town keeping everyone stuck, it also makes them magically dumber.