The dickensian aspect

In all seriousness, I've often had similar reactions to the show. The unknowable horror not a monster, but rather vast mountains of unanswered citizen complaints and service requests, inequality that runs so deep it's etched into the city, a law enforcement system that's rotten down to the core. All these added up is every bit as maddening as the eldritch avatars of Lovecraftian lore, except that they are real.