[cgbg]

all the characters are so painfully stupid I didn’t care what happened to them.

That was the gritty realism--most people are &^%$ing stupid.

[hopespringseternal]

I can’t really connect with stories composed entirely of dysfunctional idiots. It devolves into a story about stupid people shooting themselves in the foot.

Besides, it isn’t realism at all, at least not in my experience. At least outside the Biden administration anyway.