I wonder if any of the other roommates ever said, even to themselves, "Oh, Irene was right about how we were being manipulated and pitted against each other; sorry I called her a paranoid head case for it."
David said, of the show in general, in the Jezebel interview linked upthread, "I learned ... three or four months in: If they were asking specific questions, they must be building a story in this lens. ... I knew that they had a storyboard and came to that realization real quick that they’ve got a job to do, they’ve got money to make, and drama sells. Whatever little I’ve seen of the episodes, I cringe. I’m like, 'Oh my god, they twisted it in that way?'"
I finished the season, and I'm so disgusted with the producers. I actually don't mind the roommates deciding Stephen could stay because the anger management therapy he so clearly needs would be mandated - I do mind them being so dismissive of what he did to Irene based on not hitting her harder (the fuck?), and saying she knew what she was in for provoking him like that - but it should never have been put on them to decide in the first place.
It was nice to see Stephen indeed seem to benefit from therapy (which he would never have sought on on his own, since his mom had taught him it's bad). But, while Irene admitted in Vulture that outing him was one of the worst things she's ever done, I can't find anything where Stephen acknowledged how horrible his actions were. He walked all the way down that pier and out to the car that was already in motion, tapped on it to get the driver to stop, opened the door, smacked her in the face, and then came back gloating about it and calling her a bitch for the umpteenth time.
The producers can also go fuck themselves with having the remaining roomies go learn about Lyme disease and putting that "for more information" card up after the episode. Assholes.
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