Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

She was written to be such an inhuman nag! The previous three seasons I've tried to watch in a single day during a long holiday weekend. I had to take a break for season four and finish tonight because Rita was so unpleasant to be around. It was as if I saw myself in the pointless momentum of a doomed, wholly unfulfilling relationship. I can kind of see it all from her perspective, and... well, no, I can't. I'm not all glad she's dead or anything, but she was given nothing to do but be unpleasant, so she absolutely had to go.