I've read you post three times to not overlook something ... Everything what you describes, hadn't any effect on me. In fact, some of them I see completely different. But thats the way it is with the personal taste . Especially the thing with the twists and turns ended for me after EP 4.
I think that show is quite average in nearly every aspect but if you get caught by the story and theme I can understand that people will love it.
Another thing to my choice of words earlier... maybe pseudo-philosophical and pseudo-social critical arent the right choice. I meant that the show fakes to be "deep" and isn't it really, at least not to me .