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Season 1 is slow and kind of mission of the week which is why I assume it never really caught on like it should have. Justified was real similar. Season 2 it becomes much more serialized and season 3 is pretty much where it goes full stride on emphasizing the stories that play to the show's strengths.

Another reason the show may not connect as well with people is because it constantly subverts expectations for what a show should do. There's one plot thread that no other show could have ever pulled off.

Spoiler through season 4. I'm talking sending Nina to the Siberia prison for a season and a half, spending a stupidly long amount of time with her and the guy working on stealth technology then unceremoniously killing her and never bothering with that thread again. All those scenes and time spent with her just to show how s***ty the USSR was in case you were rooting for the Jennings a little too much. Of course it propels Stan and Oleg's storyline but that could have been done without spending pretty much any time following her. Other shows kill off characters in a shocking manner but this show went all in decimating an entire storyline you thought was being built.

Season 6 is the final season. It's nice that there is a definitive end game in sight. As of now there are a ridiculous amount of possibilities regarding what could happen.
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