The Show’s Writing Goes From Being Engrossing To Preposterous SPOILERS

I’ve been binging SOA, and I was becoming increasingly invested in it—until, at the end of S5, Otto murders a prison nurse who just HAPPENS to be the sister of a vendetta-driven US Marshal, who grows a hard-on the size of Detroit and the rigidity of carborundum steel for the Sons and everyone connected to them, e. g., Tara?! No. Sorry. We just hit melodramatic soap opera territory. The probability of that coincidence being plausible is less than that of the Pope declaring Hitler a saint. I am now dialed out of my binge. I’m willing to suspend my disbelief, when the story is good. I’m not willing to have my intelligence insulted when the writers have run out narrative developments that are better than “and then s/he woke up and realized it had all been a dream,” or “the dead nurse is the sister of a rule-breaking and brutal former US Marshal.”