Not sure what show you're watching, but there are still plenty of stupid twists that are disrupting the natural flow of strategy and discouraging interesting gameplay. What's saving this season is that there are SO many shit tier players who literally don't understand the most fundamental aspects of playing the game and the good, level-headed players are getting frustrated that that's ruining their games, and that's funny.
Me personally, I'm currently putting this one in the "bad pre-merge, good post-merge" category.