Your labor isn ' t really a premium product . <| sep |> The term I ' d use is it ' s too familycentric , meaning virtually all of the stories have to involve at least 2 family members together . While that does help spread the load out among 12 characters , it leaves less room to let each character breathe . Of course , the one I feel gets hurt the most in this is Alex . Instead of giving her a story or two on campus last season without family involvement and letting us see other sides of her life they constantly kept bringing her back home so that she could basically just interact with her family . It ' s no coincidence , IMO , that the best story she ever had was in Under Pressure , when she had the stage to herself in the two therapy scenes , and we got to see her more vulnerable side .