The series began hitting its stride and finding its unique voice around the hundred dollar baby episode.

“I did i didn't feel like watching it that we are really with the show hitting some sort of stride where we're like well this feels like a tv show where you know you watch the first season and you're like wow what is this what are we doing and then by by this time i feel like we're we're finding our ”

Glenn Howerton argues that the show's dark humor and potential serial killer themes are clearly satirical and intended to be seen as cartoonish rather than realistic.

“there there's an argument to be made that like making dennis a serial killer or like like we're suggesting that maybe he is is less potentially less evil than what we're kind of doing in these episodes because because once you go to that place you're like oh this is like a cartoon it's very clearly ”