Musicians like to say that second albums are often weaker than first albums, because you have your entire life to prepare for the first one and six months to make the second. Something like this rule obtains in TV as well. How many times have you seen a series perform strongly out of the gate, only to falter when it returned for another go-round? But it’s the second season that often defines the character of a series. It’s a test of inventiveness as well as of stamina, and very often when you look back on a long-running show that’s mostly great, mostly terrible, or maddeningly inconsistent, you realize that season two is where the show’s true potential (or lack thereof) started to come into focus. While I was rewatching The Sopranos, Seinfeld, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Simpsons, and other canonical shows recently, it became clear...
- 11/30/2015
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
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