Overview
- The Rotten Tomatoes audience score for Season 5 has fallen to roughly 56–57%, the lowest for the series after the Dec. 25 episode drop.
- The penultimate installment, “The Bridge,” is now the show’s lowest-rated IMDb episode, reported around 5.4–5.7 from tens of thousands of reviews.
- A Change.org petition demanding release of alleged cut or unseen material has topped 300,000 signatures, fueled by a circulating Google document of unverified claims.
- Actor Randy Havens publicly rejected talk of a secret alternate cut, and Netflix or the creators have not confirmed any “lost” version of the season.
- Backlash mixes complaints about pacing and heavy exposition with disputes over a coming-out scene, as others defend the moment; the finale is scheduled for Dec. 31 in streaming and select theaters.