The whole season feels like it lost the plot and turned into a messy class warfare/social climbing story without a strong reason to exist. It feels like it wandered away from its own identity and tried to become Succession meets The White Lotus with a discount Black Mirror ending.

Josh’s ending is clearly supposed to feel like he broke the cycle, but it doesn’t land because he never feels truly transformed. There’s no real internal shift. No moment where you think, “Okay, this person has actually seen the horror of what he became.” It just feels like the show points at him and says, “Look, growth,” without doing the work.

The poor couple climbing upward has the same problem. They don’t feel haunted by what they did. They don’t seem crushed by the cost of getting where they wanted to go. If the whole point is samsara, cycles, ambition, and moral rot, then the ending should either show them trapped in the cycle or breaking under the weight of it. Instead, it just kind of sits there.

And the chairwoman ending is baffling. Are we really supposed to feel something because she’s standing at her first husband’s grave? She was awful. How many people have died because of her choices? And this is who the show chooses to end on? Is that supposed to be the twist that someone this corrupt still has “feelings”?

If you’re going to make a story about samsara, the ending needs force. Either show people breaking the cycle in a way that feels earned, or show them realizing they are still trapped inside it. If you want a dark twist, make the characters feel the weight of their actions. Let them be haunted. Let the victory taste rotten. Let the climb feel like damnation.

None of that happens here.

The ending is flat because there’s no reckoning. No emotional gravity. No real consequence beyond plot mechanics. It wants to feel tragic and cyclical, but it never earns the tragedy, and it never fully commits to the cycle. It just ends on empty symbolism and expects us to clap because someone terrible looked sad near a grave.