Yes, Expanse develops its characters, which is always important regardless of plot (and it's not like the show falls down there either). And horrible, yes, but that spacing scene was not only unexpected I think it made a statement the way few other massacres do. It was the whole mass murder as if people were worth no more than garbage aspect -- not something you usually see. I think we've become immune to bloodbaths (in the news as well as fiction -- as I type this I'm hearing something about yet another school shooting).

Haven't seen Stranger 2 yet as we've such a lot to get off the DVR still and we're making such slow progress. We're current on 3 shows and have just started going through S2 of Dirk Gently. First episode was slow but the second one is already pretty funny.