Thanks to quarantine, I binge watched the show in two days. Unfortunately, binging it makes plot holes more apparent than watching it week by week. Things I’ve noticed - feel free to explain if I didn’t notice that they filled them / I misunderstood something, or to post other plot holes you noticed, or theories about ones I’ve noted :

-Olive is pretty upset over the loss of Danny, a father figure in her life. She makes it clear she still wants him in her life and says “He’s my dad, too”, and Danny says he wouldn’t be able to stand losing her as a pseudo-daughter. They show her spending time with him with rock climbing to maintain her relationship with him, but after the first half of the season or so, she seems to forget about him and climbing Acadia. I understand that these things can maybe happen off-screen, but if I remember correctly, they run into him on the street at the end of the season after Grace finds out she’s pregnant, and Olive and Danny both seem distant, as if they haven’t seen each other in awhile and have no plans to see each other in the future.

-Grace borrows Danny’s truck. Ben says to tell him thanks for the favor or something like that. Grace says “IF I see him, I will.” ... She’s gonna give the truck back but maybe not see him? I guess she could drop it off in a parking garage or something and take a cab home, but you’d think you’d see the person to at least give back the keys. Probably nit-picky, but it bothered me.

-In General, for it having been a major plot point, they seemed to have dropped the Danny story without really explaining how Grace has coped with essentially losing a three year relationship with a man she was very much in love with. I get it, her husband is back from the dead, but that complication deserved more story time than it got, at least as far as Olive is concerned. Something simple such as the occasional comment from Olive “See you guys later, going climbing with Danny!” could have saved that plot.

-The Internal Affairs investigation of Mick! They completely drop this after Jared “arrests” Mick, with no explanation. IA just completely forgets about everything they were going after her for?? All of a sudden she’s part of the undercover op and out of hot water that even the captain seemed unable to stop. Jared, too.

-Was Mick already a detective when she came back from desk duty? It didn’t seem like she was at first, just a regular cop, and then one day she was a detective like Jared, with no mention of a promotion. She was super impressed that Jared received Detective status while she was gone first episode, implying that she isn’t one herself.

-Too many police cases that seem like they wouldn’t fall under the responsibility of detectives in NYC that Mick and Jared handle. They show up on the scene of drug busts, homicides, bank robberies, hate crime groups, terrorist cells. The most glaring one was the meth lab bust. They have reason to believe that this is going to be a pretty large bust. But Mick & Jared show up, with NO BACKUP, to take this down themselves. It’s NYC! Their police division is HUGE. The DEA is most certainly who would be involved in this first and foremost, and the DEA has their own swat team for big drug busts. I understand that Jared & Mick have to be there for the sake of the plot and the callings, but damn, guys, get some backup!

-The meth guys kill two police officers on route to being transferred to Rikers. Is there not a city / state wide manhunt ensuing for these dudes prior to the kidnapping when the bus holding prisoners doesn’t show up as scheduled?? Jared & Mick were literally the arresting officers and they were blindsided.

-Unrealistic that no one else in NYPD would know about Jared’s under cover op for the X’ers. I also find it hard to believe that Mick is that clueless that she, as a cop who does undercover work herself, wouldn’t even consider that as a possibility.

-Ben suddenly reads Latin. They need TJ as a translator, and then randomly Ben is like “Oh hey here’s this sentence that you missed! proceeds to interpret Latin flawlessly

-Vance’s replacement guy gets kidnapped and we never hear from that dude again. So the new NSA director gets kidnapped by US military black ops, and we just kinda forget about it?

-The pilot and the mirror neuron lady. Supposedly the Air Force shoots them down but I’m pretty sure we hear them mention that they don’t know where the plane went down. It was during a bad storm and we’re lead to believe, by way of editing and lack of dialogue to the contrary, that there’s a chance the pilot succeeded in his mission to time travel. And we never hear from that story again. On screen, they never confirm they found the plane or bodies. All we see is Ben marking them as deceased on his board. Are we supposed to take that to mean they did recover the plane & bodies? Otherwise surely Ben would have been like “holy shit it worked again!” or at least stay true to the skeptic he (sometimes) is. ETA: He watched the digital projection of the plane disappear off the map - the audience is left to speculate whether it truly got shot down, or if it disappeared into a black hole on its own ala 828. That part certainly will get addressed in future episodes, if we get them, but the true plot hole lies in Ben’s reaction. Does he just take the military at its word that the plane crashed, rather than disappear into the void as the pilot intended? Ben is a skeptic and a bit of a conspiracy theorist. It seems unlikely that he wouldn’t at the very least opine out loud (to the audience) questioning their fate and putting their pictures into the “unknown” section of his 828 wall, rather than being placing them in the deceased section in utter defeat.

-Speaking of mirror neuron lady. They move all those people that the military were running experiments on to her facility that she said she has access to through Spring. Then she dies / disappears. What happened to all those people? Did they get moved somewhere else? Did they ever recover? Are their brains still all linked up? Who is taking care of them? They completely dropped that story! Hoping they’ll explain their fate in the future, but it would’ve been nice to hear Saanvi mention a few updates about their game plan for the catatonic passengers.

-The shadows. While I certainly feel like this was a huge missed opportunity for something far more mythological than a foreshadowing of three violent meth heads kidnapping a kid for ransom, it isn’t technically a plot hole. That being said, why did Adrian get haunted by the shadows, too, when it had nothing to do with him?

-The church of believers. I guess we’re lead to believe that this cult just disbands after Adrian goes on the run post nightclub fire, but it’s never really addressed.

-Grace’s Callings. It’s stated that she’s having callings because she’s pregnant with Bens’ baby. But after she has the baby, we never see them address this. She doesn’t have callings anymore, so far, but what does this mean for the baby?

-The X’ers & the nightclub fire. Can’t tell if this is a plot hole, or if they just intentionally mislead the audience by doing careful cuts to make us think one way or the other. Who was the squirrelly cult dude acting with to poison all of champagne bottles? The way it’s cut makes it look like it was the Xers, with the bartenders brother saying they’ve “got their part covered” to Jared on the phone and the scene is interspliced with cuts of poisoning the champagne bottles, but then later Jared says it wasn’t and the leader implies that so far they’ve taken a non violent approach. So... was it or was it not the X’ers? If it wasn’t the X’ers, who the hell helped the rogue worshiper guy? Because he certainly didn’t throw a deadly club rager with a fuck ton of spiked booze by himself.

-Speaking of poisoned champagne: We see at least 4 people pass out after drinking the champagne. Certainly, with it being free, a lot more people would have collapsed as well. But only 6 people die in the fire? After the whole damn building exploded with seemingly little time to do an immediate search and rescue of dead-weight unconscious people prior to explosion??

-Bethany. We see her get arrested & charged with multiple felonies. She’s briefly out on bail I think? It’s later mentioned that she’s in jail. But then she’s at the nightclub getting her groove on.

-If Saanvi removed her gene, does she no longer have a death date? She no longer has Callings. Seemingly she never wound up removing Zeke’s, as she was still looking for a cure for him. Why not, if she removed her own? There was plenty of time after her manic episode and before she got shut down. And apart from debrieding his frostbite, what treatments was Zeke even getting from her? Also, the Major says “there is no cure” - but Saanvi literally succeeded, albeit with some bad side effects, in removing her genetic marker and stopping her callings!

-Are we supposed to believe that the hospital was just letting Saanvi do all of this clearly unrelated-to-cancer research with no accountability and still has full medical credentials and lab to herself? Do they think she’s doing more cancer research? Is she doing enough actual cancer research to cover her tail or something?

-Lab tech guys fate unanswered.

-Did the Singularity project get absorbed by the military? I get that maybe it’s something that will be brought up later, but the characters suddenly stopped obsessing over it and replaced it with the death date instead. Did they forget that the government is literally treating fellow passengers like human lab rats?

-Ben got fired and officials show up at the BBQ looking for him. Then the mine explosion happens and suddenly he’s getting away with his crimes scott free? Vance “died” and had to go super under cover before he would have had a chance to sweep that under the rug for him.

-Cal’s leukemia. We see him getting treated with Saanvi’s miracle meds on the pilot and there’s zero follow up to his condition. Most of the first season takes place in a matter of a few weeks. 6 months to live to completely cured within less than a month?

ETA from commenter below: Lourdes. They tried to wrap this up by saying she left, but like... did her and Jared get divorced? Did she completely sever her lifelong friendship with Mick? I have so many questions.

I get suspension of disbelief for the sake of a Sci fi TV show, but I do think the show just gets downright lazy with it sometimes.