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I have watched all four seasons seven times.

This show is so good I don't recommend it to my friends because I'm not sure I could handle it if they didn't like it as much as myself.

If you haven't seen the show, watch season 1 episode 1. If you don't like it, this isn't your show. You don't have to invest 20 hours of your life 'to get to the good season'. It's all good right from the start.

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I've watched the entire series twice and enjoyed how well it portrays the "typical" case of the industry/life -- the one where you aren't the 1-in-a-million breakout winner, but rather have to find enjoying in the game itself.

Personally I liked the first episode but all the relationship drama later in the season made me stop watching, it felt contrived.

Non-spoiler alert: you might just have to grit your teeth and hang on through the first few seconds, where the armadillo gets run over.

I am amazed people glide through life with skin so thin. It's not even real. What's to be offended about?

TV, music, movies, theater, and books are supposed to make you feel something when consuming them. What's not to understand?

> TV, music, movies, theater, and books are supposed to make you feel something when consuming them.

So we don't need a warning when they do. What's not to understand?

Sometimes those things are unpleasant. Sometimes those unpleasant things are not necessary to enjoy the production. Again, what's not to understand?

So you need a warning whenever art makes you feel something other than enjoyment. Now I understand.

I don’t think you do, given how I’ve broken it down to below ELI5 levels, and you’re still snarking at me, but, ok.

Additionally, you are quite wrong. I distinctly recall the first time I was ever literally moved to tears by music, and it was precisely when the choir sang their first note in A Survivor from Warsaw, op 46 by Arnold Schoenberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbFVYbDuVg

Since then, I have been touched by sadness, beauty, anger, awe, and many other emotions as a result of experiencing art.

I didn't quite like the first episode but show got build up so quickly to something really good. always last episodes of every season were too damn good.

I've watched it (all seasons) twice so far and definitely expect I'll watch again at some point. It's one of the few shows I've ever watched that I feel like was essentially perfect. Not too long, not too short, well written, interesting characters, just enough nostalgia, and so on.

*spoiler alert*

If I could criticize anything, it might be the death of one of the major characters. I mean, it was good drama, and definitely a heart-wrenching sequence. But almost too much so, if such a thing is possible in a drama.

I loved the first time I watched it. However, when I started watching it again, I could not - while I absolutely loved the show, it always left me a little sad for them..

I may have to try again..

Same here. I made it part of the way through season one a second time but lost my patience for most of the relationship drama. It was fine the first time through, so I don't think it was a poor choice to have it in the show, but it does reduce its rewatch value.

This is one of the few shows where I've hated every main character at different times throughout the series. I just started my second time through and I'm interest to see if I feel the same.

yeah it really is one of my favorite shows out there. really great

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