sepinwall wrote a really nice summary to the show
here. if you're still on the fence about spending money on this, or are curious about what it was, the opening few paragraphs don't contain any spoilers:
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I'm never going to tell someone who doesn't do this for a living the best way to spend their entertainment dollar, and particularly on something as specific and dark as this. But I will say that this is easily the best show I've watched so far in 2016, and that other contenders (whether the rest of this season of The Americans, or the final season of The Leftovers, whenever it airs, or something coming from out of left field) will have to work very hard to surpass it. This wasn't a perfect, polished work of art. It was messy. It tried a lot of things, many of which worked, some of which (having the barflies debate current events) didn't quite. But those performances, and the work done in crafting the characters and having them shoulder the weight of generations and traditions, were extraordinary. It was grim, it was thoughtful, it was on occasion shockingly hilarious, and it wasn't quite like anything anyone's attempted in TV before. Even in this golden age of experimentation in comedy and drama, that's hard to do, let alone to do it as well as nearly everyone involved in Horace and Pete did what they did.
there's also this, linked in the above, which is great (contains spoilers):
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wat...le-even-better