By god The Red Tower might just be the worst written story they've covered on the show. It's like the guy read House of Leaves, tried to copy the writing style of the academic paper, but he was retarted and all he understood were the big words and complex sentences. It's the same five points about that fucking factory repeated over and over again but through the most horribly overwrought prose known to man. I swear, half the words he uses (and reuses again and again I might add) don't even make any sense—"seething speculation," what the fuck does that even mean?
Even the guy who wrote Dagon's Mirror would tell him to tone it down.
E: The ideas and images aren't even half bad, but it's dressed up in 20 pounds of frosting that you're left sick of the entire cake
E2: Second story was more bearable, though outside the long dialogues I had a hard time picturing where this thing was supposed to take place, or even what was going on half the time. Read more like it wanted to be a play instead now that I think about it. Think it would work a lot better if it was a visual story tbh.