I believe in allowing artistic license when it comes to adaptations. What works in a book doesn't always in the medium of film or television.
That being said, I held my tongue for 10 episodes of the show to give it a fair chance at pulling up from a low-altitude flat spin. It didn't. It would have been fine if the show was just bad, and I know that doesn't make sense but hear me out. The fundamental recipe was right, good actors, the CGI for the monkey (Ampersand) wasn't 'distracting', the source material was great (I never read things twice unless it's educational content), I read it more than once. Yet somehow they managed to put all that greatness into one end of their machine and get such caustic waste out of the other end. I don't and didn't expect a copy of the graphic novel and am not comparing to it outside of the general theme, by virtue of it being the same intellectual property.
There are people that will say 'just turn your brain off' the show is fine. Those people should go watch Teletubbies, even The Simpsons, and Futurama require some level of cognitive ability. This is not an adequate excuse for what this is.
I'm disappointed that there wasn't a soul on set that said 'Hey this isn't right!' let alone 'What bigot wrote this 2-dimensional crap?'
I've invested more time into this show than it's worth, I hope this is the last episode of the season so I can forget about this show and watch a production with a spine.