If that was what they were setting up, they could have done more to characterize them, show us what tendencies or how their lack of ideology makes them susceptible to manipulation, the message I got was just "look at these paranoid, incompetent, trigger-happy, overly-dramatic idiots.

Like there’s historical examples to draw on for what Dedra is planning, from the IRA assassinating their own after British intelligence fabricated evidence others were traitors to Russian police having SR assets on payrole who participated in assassinations to get in with SR groups and identify them in the 1800s, to the FBI’s varied tactics to destroy or render groups ineffectual that would all be more interesting than some group that’s easily manipulated because they’re just a bunch of morons.

I kinda felt like there was a lot of filler. They didn’t need to spend an hour of the first two episodes focusing on drama within the group of dipshits who presumably