Shareefruck
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I don't think this season is aggressively unwatchable or anything, but this type of assumption has always been a major pet peeve of mine that annoys the crap out of me. Everything with a name attached to it that falls off the rails is apparently better than 99% of television. This, Season 5 of Game of Thrones, Season 4 of Community, even the 15+ seasons of terrible new Simpsons episodes gets defended this way.Season 5 is a victim of the standard this show has set. Calling the season bad is a very relative assessment. Season 5 is more entertaining than 99% of any season of any comedy show in the history of the medium. That's how good the original run is (S1-3). Judging this show against itself doesn't seem fair. It's the Gretzky phenomenon.
It's only true if you're counting entire genres that are expected to be terrible by default, like reality TV, soap operas, throw-away sitcoms on networks that don't matter, etc. If that's the barometer, saying that something is better than 99% of everything isn't very meaningful at all. It's not like the latest season is superior to its comparable peers or anything and it's just being judged on a completely different scale or something.
On top of that, you're just baselessly assuming easy-to-dismiss bias entirely because you disagree with something. You can easily do that with anything. It's honestly not any less likely to assume that people are instead going too easy on the season and not viewing it critically enough because they WANT to like the show due to all of the good-will that the good seasons have earned it, and that nobody would even bother spending time on it/acknowledging it/looking for positives to point out, if it were hypothetically a new show named something else.
Assuming bias in either direction gets nobody anywhere. Just disagree with the criticism and leave it at that.
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