The word pretentious is a buzz word that got overused until it pretty much lost all meaning, but boy oh boy is this show pretentious. Why? you ask, well let me tell you.
If you want to present a thought provoking piece of expression, you should at least be aware of the state of art related to your chosen topic. Babylon pretends that suicide has never been discussed in the history of humankind, and as a result, the show starts manufacturing these unbalanced dialogues where the pro life side is presented as illiterate dumb hacks who get obliterated everytime they open their mouths by the fake intellect and charisma of the pro suicide side.
Now, if you are an eighth grader with eighth grade syndrome, standing in front of the mirror and trying to win every imaginable imaginary debate ever, then yeah, I can understand portraying your opponents as pathetic losers, in fact that's the only way you're going to win. But, if you're an author who's trying to describe this moral dilemma as a global threat that in just two months got the world's leaders uncertain and scared, then you've got to come up with better arguments instead of putting utterly foolish opinions in the mouth of one side for the other to debunk, just for the sake of advancing the plot.
The mystery/thriller aspect however, was actually pretty good, if only it wasn't tarnished with that miserably failed philosophical attempt.