The problem is some shows do just take time before the creators get into their stride. The Wire is a great example of that, the first season takes a long time building up the characters and the story moves at an almost glacial pace, but I'd argue that it's well worth the time. The payoff is tremendous.
This is another show I tried to like! I watched the whole 1st season and wasn't impressed with it. Maybe it gets better down the road but it was like you said, it was slooow and I just couldn't focus.
Well, there's no accounting for taste and ours may just be different :)
I think part of the reason it already appealed to me towards the end of the first season is just how gritty and bleak it was. I don't think there had been any other show at the time it was released that showed just how dark the social environment (or maybe Baltimore itself) really was and it focussed too on the day-to-day lives of people at all levels of the drug trade.
I think historic context is often a big influence when people recommend movies and TV shows.
The problem is some shows do just take time before the creators get into their stride. The Wire is a great example of that, the first season takes a long time building up the characters and the story moves at an almost glacial pace, but I'd argue that it's well worth the time. The payoff is tremendous.
This is another show I tried to like! I watched the whole 1st season and wasn't impressed with it. Maybe it gets better down the road but it was like you said, it was slooow and I just couldn't focus.
Well, there's no accounting for taste and ours may just be different :)
I think part of the reason it already appealed to me towards the end of the first season is just how gritty and bleak it was. I don't think there had been any other show at the time it was released that showed just how dark the social environment (or maybe Baltimore itself) really was and it focussed too on the day-to-day lives of people at all levels of the drug trade.
I think historic context is often a big influence when people recommend movies and TV shows.