I think something that really made it suffer was the two specific time periods running along side each other for the entire show. There was the past in which the girls were teens and had that typical slow reveal of Umbrella/virus/zombie stuff and then there was a future in which the girls were adults and it was years past the zombies wrecking the whole world. It would hop back and forth multiple times per episode. So basically the audience was constantly just waiting for the past characters and story to catch up to the future because we all know what was going to happen since they were literally showing it to us the entire time.

I’m not at all saying that sticking to one time period or story could have saved the show - there were a lot of other problems - but I think it could have helped. If it was just a show about either teens solving the mystery and experiencing the scares, OR a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland, there wouldn’t have been this constant feeling like half the episodes didn’t matter since we already know how it ends. If they absolutely had to have both these timelines, I think it could have helped to do it like Arcane, with several episodes in the past, a time hop and then the rest of the episodes in the future with events happening in order rather than going back and forth.

Again there was a lot of other stuff that was problematic bit to me even just having the past followed by the present would have improved it. Every time we had a teenage past scene I wanted to fast forward because there was no mystery or suspense. I just didn’t care what the teenagers were doing because I was constantly waiting for the past to catch up.