I'd be careful about skipping episodes from the second season onward, though. The show gets more and more serialized as it goes on. It might not seem so while you're watching season two, but later on you'll realize beginning there it really starts planting seeds for arcs.
Yes, I'm aware of this, I figured season one would hopefully be ok at least.
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Coincidence that a self-avowed Communist is so against democracy and traditional marriage? - SephG after misquoting me hilariously