I watched about half of the first episode and turned it off for all of the reasons you mentioned.
Here I was expecting a real documentary on strange things happening with the honey supply and found myself watching statist garbage trying to claim that finding ways around being extorted is some kind of criminal act.
Instead of getting honey for lower prices we get higher prices AND we get to pay for massive amounts of extra government employees to protect us from saving money and/or having more choices.
whew... what would we do without these guys???
Loved the graphics by the way, especially the black market honey dealer.