📉 A hyped show I dropped after one season

Last year everyone around me was raving about a new show, so I started it too. I watched all of season 1, 1 episode a night, like I was doing homework. It wasn't bad. Good acting, nice camera work, an idea that sounded fine on paper. But I never cared whether anyone in it was okay, and that matters to me. When season 2 came out I didn't even click on it. Didn't feel a pull at all. A friend from my college group is a huge fan and she was a bit offended. She said season 2 gets much better and I was making a mistake. She said it twice. I said, maybe, and then changed the topic to biryani, which is how I handle most arguments. Part of me wonders if I just watched it in the wrong month. That week my phone kept buzzing with work messages and I was half watching, half replying. Maybe I'd love it today. Timing does strange things to what you like. I still see people posting about it and I feel a tiny tug. Then it passes. I haven't gone back, and I don't think I will. It's not a rule, I just never feel like it. There's a long list of shows I've said I'd start someday and that's where this one sits, next to 3 others. My friend still sends me clips from season 2 with no message, just the clip, like a dare. I watch them with the sound off. Nothing so far has changed my mind. So what show did you drop after 1 season while everyone else loved it? Was it the pacing, the characters, or just the wrong month like mine? And did you ever go back to it later, after a few months or a few years? Or is it done for you, filed away with the other 3 on my list?

I wonder if the people telling you to carry on have rewatched season 1 lately. Maybe they remember it warmly because of the good stuff that came later and forgot the slow start. That happened with a show my cousin pushed on me.

Sometimes it really is just timing rather than the show being at fault. Tried something recently in a better mood than my failed first attempt years earlier, and it clicked completely the second time around, which surprised me a fair amount given how little else about the show had changed since then, on any real level at all worth mentioning.

Did the exact same thing with a fairly acclaimed show a couple of years back. Everyone swore season two was where it finally picked up, and I still have not gone back to check whether that was ever true, and probably never will now, several years further along than that, if I am being properly truthful with myself here about it.