American Hardwood said:
The reason the writing is bad is because the writer tried jam her square peg concepts and ideas into the round hole of existing canon. Her motivation for doing so inevitably result in a bad product. As far as the terrible acting, why were they chosen if they were so bad? Surely there is at least some decent talent from the ranks of starving actors out there.
But to throw the actors a bone, bad writing and bad directing can certainly make an actor look worse than they might otherwise be.
One of the worst performances came from headland's wife...
ETA Oh, and the main actress just so happens to be "non-binary" and a super progressive intersectional feminist. Can't imagine any of that has to do with casting though.