Now imagine Slow Horses but they tell Gary Oldman to fuck right off for a season without pay.
TV doesn’t work like that.
For the same reason The Expanse had to shuffle plot lines around so that the main characters had screen time and didn’t have to skip full seasons
Juliet literally wasn’t in a whole ass book at all
The books do some book shit that’s won’t fly on TV, that’s why this season had to be like it is.
How they tackle S3 is going to be interesting, since the book for that was even bigger book shit.
Also Young Sheldon and the spin-off that’s still going on
It’s a soap opera and wish fulfillment for (conservative) men over 30