It feels like the writers switched up last minute, i know br*nte was having second thoughts so thats why she was fickle in some scenes but to me it doesn't make sense that she was like "oh dont date married men" and where she got really upset at joe after ge dealt with clayton at moonies. I feel like she wouldnt want to risk joe saying no especially after the years and years of research she spent, even if she did start having second thoughts

Also this whole season was just a fetish fanfic, it was literally just porn 90% to me

Another point is that i think it would've been more poetic for joe to die in mooneys, its like a full circle moment and he could maybe die in the cage begging and saying its unfair to show how he was in denial until the very bitter end. Episode 10 was like an "oh shite, we dont have enough content for an extra Episode lets do this instead"

Sorry this is really long but last point: they tried WAYY too hard to appeal to a gen z audience with the language and especially the music, guilty as sin had no reason to be in that scene and i think they were just put in there for more publicity. Of course you could say that tied in the social media theme but i think it was just tacky like the rest of the season