Not escapism for me. Synopsis: The cost of overcoming evil outweighs the benefits, even if you succeed, you still lose so don't bother. There will always be evil in the world. At some point it appeared the writer was just killing off well built characters for the fun off it, until the murders had no effect or purpose. Did not communicate hope and the value of life not even in the kid that survived because by the philosophy of the series even they cannot risk looking to a hopeful future. No one can. This did not fit into the "the-triumph-of-good-over-evil" archetype it sought to deliver as the ending was too basic, weak, did not deliver the relief that the series was built up to deliver and left viewers with nothing to hold on to. After episode 10 it was like the series just wanted to show us how many main and support characters they could kill off before wrapping up. Even the humanity and empathy for the villain which they sought to elicit from viewers using the villain's backstory was lost on me as they seemed not to connect that into the story properly and we never could really find out what created the evil we spent 15 episodes cheering.