Kinda sounds like they took that old episode of Twilight Zone where the aliens come and end world hunger but it turns out in return they are only doing it to eat us and they added enough padding to create a whole series out of it. Then they added in controversial political viewpoints to make it "edgy" so that people will complain and they will get a ton of free press from word of mouth and the occasional puff piece where the news will yammer on about what people think instead of real news, thus more people watch then would have originally, if for no other reason, then to see what all the hullabaloo is about or to get mad at the audacity of the hidden message here. Of course the makers will deny it while enjoying the artificial ratings boost they hope to get from it and the increased ad revenue.
Pretty brilliant, if it works, albeit creatively bankrupt.
