I understand why they had to shoot it they way they did, producing during COVID seems like it would have been a nightmare, but there were far too many times when a character would be talking to another character and effectively just go full soliloquy and it really killed the pacing for me.
This was my only real gripe with it. I love a good monologue, but I actually found myself fast-forwarding through the one halfway through (where they talk about death). It honestly felt like they just kept going around in circles.
So yeah I definitely get it, and I wish the writer would have edited himself a bit more.
I agree with GP that the show has an extremely interesting take on the core ideas, but I think the execution falters slightly, especially in the last couple of episodes. The characters started doing some fairly silly things, and I also don't like that they gave up completely on the science-investigation angle they had going. They had some interesting players set up against one another with the infighting among the vampires, and then the sheriff, and the main woman character, but then in the end they basically wasted it all by relying almost entirely on the vampires screwing up massively for no reason in order to end the story. Not to mention the fact that surely there must have still been a couple of things left here and there for the vampires to hide from the sun behind.