I'm not sure that would be honest to the characters though.

How would you even write that into the show that doesn't come off as preaching to the audience? This is a show that does its best to hide from the audience that Peter Rivers is Darren's dad, or that Chaka is Darren's boss as examples.

I think the slow burn over seasons is more to the show's style. This is the show that treated Harper's entire story, from her kidnapping, to her father's mania, or schitzophrenia, or whatever that was (apparently it was ice addiction), a secret from the audience for the entire season. We, the audience, assumed that she was raped and spent the rest of the season trying to regain her confidence, autonomy and sense of self-worth, but that was just a red herring to the potentially worse reality: she lost everything. Her home, her humanity, her father, her best friend, her identity, and most importantly, her self.

This can't be the show that looks at the audience and says: "Hey guys, it's me, Amerie. Coercion is rape, my best friend Harper raped Dusty. And having sex with someone who is unable to consent, in this case because they're intoxicated and traumatised, is also rape. Harper, my best friend, also raped Malakai, my current/ex-boyfriend".

Only through character study and the characters themselves understanding and being able to articulate what has happened to them, can they truly reveal to the other characters and themselves, what has truly happened to them.

And when it does, shit will hit the fan.