I've noticed that the episode "Girl Hair" seemed to be the place where the series seemed to fully lose it, started to focus less on the interviews/guests and became more random, and whatever cohesion it had seemed to disappear. In the previous episode, the episode was invaded by replicating pods and the end of the episode ended just as the pods opened up and appeared to be about to replicate them. So perhaps they really were replicated, and the reason the show lost it's shit so much was because the characters we're watching are completely different characters.