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Originally Posted by mrmendes
Watch ep 1 of season 2 before you give up. thank me later
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S1 of the show was largely boring and underwhelming. They basically rebooted it for season 2, and while this shouldn't have worked, somehow seasons 2-3 were GOAT level television. When I first watched this show, I gave up after like 1.5 episodes of S1, years later randomly watched S2E1 and was completely sucked in. It's just sooooo good. I think you could easily start from S2E1 without having watched a second of S1 and it would still work.
The only other example I can think of where such reboot worked fantastically is Parks & Rec. S1 of that show wasn't well received and it was mostly pretty bad. They fixed what didn't work (in The Leftovers' case it was getting rid of the teenagers, giving a lot less attention to GR, giving Nora more screen time, finding ways to make the show little more fun and a little less grim, and sending a couple of key characters that didn't work on s1 into the background while introducing new ones), and somehow managed to make it one of the best sitcoms of all time.