I have the feeling this show gets a bit too much hate for no reason.
Admittedly, at times it might be a bit predictable but never revealing the whole thing.
Quite the contrary, as it goes on, it opens up new ways to explore the established circumstances.

This show was from the get go a bit like **Finding Carter**, but in a serious, much darker tone, with very capable actors.
Especially the performances of Allen and Pill are outstanding.
The story overall has so much ammunition to show the consequences on how this kind of ...experience... affects everyone involved and what it makes them do to make it all better. In that regards it's like another **American Crime** show, just that the people here aren't as helpless.
The character Hank Asher offers so much potential to put the audience into great indifference on how to really feel about him.
Is he a tragic hero, a disgusting pig, a product of our faulty mob-mentality society? Who knows.

I'd say the early cancellation is a blessing and a curse in one. At one hand this kind of story only works for a very limited time before it just starts dragging out the end. On the other hand, it might have been very interesting to see where the story would have ended later on but I doubt a full second season would be a) necessary, b) wise to accomplish this.
A 6 episode mini second season would suffice as I see it.
Either way, the end of this was simply a big mindf\*ck to me. Nasty cliffhanger, but a great, memorable end.