I liked S2-3 a lot better.
One of the show's great strengths is walking the lines between cringe and cheese, woke and anti-woke, genuineness and ridiculousness, slapstick and drama. I thought this season was the first time a lot of that missed. Which is fine, keep taking big swings.
It's still excellent at creating tension and muddling sympathies such that you're often on the edge of your seat without being sure what you're rooting for (or flipping on a dime).
Thomas Ian Griffith was underutilized; there were only 1-2 scenes where he really hammed it up (and they were great - this guy easily could have been Steven Seagal and I hope he has a renaissance. He's a very imposing presence with the ability to pump it to 11). Hopefully he does it more next season. If part of the reason for this is so many characters to juggle, you gotta prune some.
Daniel/Johnny was way too much rehashing - the season tread water from that standpoint. It should have been a tense buddy comedy throughout rather than breaking them up yet again and then in the finale putting them back where they were at the S3 finale. Their grudge started really wearing thin and hopefully that's been put permanently to rest.
Felt like S4-5 should have been one season that has been stretched out.
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Originally Posted by cneuy3
I've just kind of avoided ever really watching much of anything from standard cable TV. There is usually a drop off in quality in those type of shows/series. Aside from Lost, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul I haven't watched much of anything that hasn't been on Netflix, HBO, or Showtime in the past two decades. Maybe I'm missing some stuff but there is just too much out there and when you add in movies and sports, life, etc, I just don't have time for all of it in my TV time.
Don't listen to the others, prestige TV sucks. There's a good format for telling moving picture stories in 90 minutes rather than dragging them out to 13-75 hours, it's called "movies".