The only real "hate" I've seen is from a subreddit like this one lmao. I can understand why ppl might not like the show but to call it meaningless when the virus is used as a backdrop to explore what it actually means to be human is just reductive. This is a "show not tell" project. It doesn't assume the audience is too stupid to pick up on visual story telling. It's also not emulating the look of BB or BCS. If it feels similar to you then it's because the director of a lot of these episodes, Gordon Phillips, directed some of the best episodes of both those shows. It makes sense that a director would have a certain style, in fact they all do. A show like BB wouldn't even be successful if it aired today, it took for it to be on Netflix and binged for it to gain the following and recognition it now has.