Top 5 TV Shows That Got Good After a Rough First Season
For anyone who has ever said "just push through season one, I promise" and meant every word of it.
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Parks and Recreation
Season one was a weak Office copy, then Leslie stopped being a joke and the whole town of Pawnee came to life around her.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Skip most of the first two seasons without guilt; once Riker grows the beard, it becomes one of the best TV shows ever made.
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The Office (US)
The six-episode first season is a stiff copy of the British show; season two found its own warmth and never looked back.
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Fringe
It starts as a so-so X-Files case-of-the-week show and turns into a bold, heartbreaking story about parallel universes.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The rubber-mask monsters of season one hide what's coming: some of the sharpest writing about growing up that TV has done.