Honestly? Season 1 was campy and fun for what it was. I have no idea why the writers went as crazy as they did with superpowers, cults, a nuclear bomb(?!), but it's not like the series started off on a bad foot anyway
It sounds like the return of the classic soap opera but fur Gen Z
In the 2000s we didn't do soaps as much, but we just gave shows to writers who didn't know what they wanted to do, just as long as they included aliens and government conspiracies.