Not everything can come firing out of the gate like Stranger Things or Game of Thrones.
Here are the shows that took a little time to become great.
Great shows with bad first seasons almost feel like a luxury in the modern streaming era.
Yes, most shows need time to grow.
A long-running series first season is rarely its best season or even among its best seasons.
Still, these debut efforts will leave you wondering how these shows got renewed in the first place.
This seasons lackadaisical pacing may have worked in a more serialized show slowly building toward something.
Even the wonderfully weird moments are too scattered to be anything more than frustrating blips on a static radar.
Mercifully, the seasons better episodes and some beneficial behind-the-scenes circumstances showed a better way forward thatTNGwould soon follow.
It has all the awkwardness and scattered humor of going to an improv show on amateur night.
Perhaps Mark should have beenlouder, angrier, and given access to a time machine.
Desperate pleas of It gets better!
At some point, you start to sound crazy going to bat for this one.
I completely understand why.
In retrospect, though,Sex and the Citys debut season feels like an almost entirely different show.
Hey, thats what we eventually got fromFirefly.
If you really want to remember what those times were like, though, just watchSeinfelds five-episode first season.
Everything else just feels…off.
Season 1 ofSeinfeldis…well, truly a show about nothing.
Sadly,Person of Interests first season still sticks out like a sore thumb.
If youre into that style of show, it offers a pretty good version of it.
If not, youll really have to have faith that this thing eventually earned its rabid following.
Its one of the easiest skip this season options when youre recommending a show to friends.
