To expand on my reservations on Wednesday:
The style of the show and Ortega's performance are so great that it took me a few days to realise that the show promised a clever and independent protagonist but kept delivering one who has convenient plot-furthering visions rather than deducing stuff, and who goes straight to the authorities with the revelations rather than doing something cunning to foil the villains.
The show keeps doing lack-of-payoff stuff like this. Episode 1, you get a cool fencing show-off between protagonist and rival. But protagonist also feels conflicted about fencing because of mother-daughter stuff. We get more backstory fencing in a later episode. So in the big finale we get... well, protagonist and rival do work together with pointy things to defeat the end boss, but in a way that's pretty underwhelming considering we were kinda promised epic swordfighting and related character growth around two key relationships the protagonist has.
Speaking of end boss, why is that what he is? He's built up through the show as a villain, in particular one who works through manipulating the prejudice and violence of mobs. So why does he suddenly have a magical staff and fighting superpowers? He should be trying to whip the normies into a frenzied mob (maybe enhanced by appropriate demonic powers). Instead we get this underwhelming boss fight.
All that said, I did enjoy the show, will watch another season and hope for better story arcs next time.