That period is always really uncomfortable for me, and since I can't shift gears and view a program selectively as legitimately good one moment and then camp at another moment, I just view it as their letting the "current" DS go to seed, in favor of spending their time working on making the upcoming 1795 as good as they could get it.
It's just bad writing and overacting to me (though did she have any choice?)... not that showing extreme fear is automatically overacting, but this was. They seemed to be asking us to get off on someone's humiliation. I can't watch this period.