And it's clear that authentic bonding and empathy, not the trust falls and greeting circles, is what redeems Sir Pentious when he makes his sacrifice trying to take out Adam. I expect Season 2 will have the room to get into the other cast's pasts and traumas.

I do wonder if the authentic bonding being better than Charlie’s superficial traditional methods will be a plot point… because she isn’t likely to fully know what she did *right* even if she found out it worked.

And a lot of the unseen bonding between the Hotel gang is sold through the animation and the character's expressiveness - particularly during Charlie's phone call with Lucifer in Episode 5. It's *there* - but Viv clearly wasn't given enough time to explicitly lay it all out.