So I still love the show, I just have a bit of critique on what happened in e09-10. You can call me a hyper-realist snob or whatever but it isn't hard to do a bit of research on substances before you write them in to vital plot points.

As someone who has done mushrooms and other psychedelics and knows a lot about them and how they are rapidly developing in to a mental health treatment in real life, I had a few issues with how Episode 9 unraveled. First of all, nobody is going to acquire a cannibalistic blood-lust on shrooms.. You are not hungry when tripping in the first place and are far more likely to be throwing up than eating anything throughout the trip, and mushrooms generally make people way more empathetic and loving. So the idea that a group of people taking them, having synchronized selective hallucinations, and going on a murderous rampage was just so farfetched to me it kind of pulled me out of the plot that up until then had been fairly plausible and consistent besides the supernatural elements that have yet to be explained.

Am I just mis-interpreting what actually happened, and the shrooms were not meant to be the reason behind everyone's behavior? It sure seemed like that was the intended plot device that apparently pushed everyone over the edge in to evil psycho territory which is the total opposite of what should have happened. It's just a minor complaint that could have been written better, it would be like if they all got drunk and developed super-alertness and cognitive enhancements, it wouldn't make sense, and one could even make the argument that it hurts the progress of psychedelics in medicine when mainstream movies and shows portray them in a crazy D.A.R.E. fashion, like people that do acid jump out of windows thinking they can fly etc. Anyways, not a huge deal, but just seemed like lazy and misinformed writing there.