Faulty is the wrong word, but in the sense that they didn’t really work to keep them locked in. There was no backup plan, nobody noticed when they just walked out.

Speaking of Graeners security card: they know he’s dead and that his card is gone but they don’t revoke the card access or change the locks??? I’m pretty sure Mark tested it as well, do they not have access logs or did nobody noticed that a dead guy was opening doors?

It’s true that the show implicitly leans into the hubris angle, but for me that just makes them feel like bumbling idiots instead of a dangerous cult. It was clear MDR was starting to act up and ask questions but they never appropriately elevated their response or security. Milchik got fucking bit and they mostly just shrugged it off…

Not that bumbling corporate incompetence isn’t also entertaining, it just feels at odds with the dark, meticulous tones they try to set with management/the board.

Lots of threads are just dead ending at “it’s a quirky cult”. When the evil shadowy organization aren’t taking rational steps toward a concrete goal you can’t make any reasonable deductions.

For example, the entire elaborate goat department serves no purpose beyond sacrifice? Sounds like the real purpose was the writers wanting some unsettling discovery and didn’t know how to fit it in.

MDR is a critical department but you can’t afford more than 1 security officer on the floor? You have all these security cameras but nobody watching them? The security chief is murdered and you just don’t replace him and continue with your normal operations? You don’t even have night guards to watch the severance control panels?

You demonstrably have the tech to hire any number of goons and sever them. Maybe instead of faulty security doors just have like 2 guys guarding important hallways.