Season 1s are great, setup, some payoff, a bit of lead into the overarching story. Then season 2 to X. The heroes win and then lose in the final episode, cliffhanger to next season. People get bored. Final season is announced and they wrap up the show.

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    1 year ago

    S4 was less of a mess than S3, and the worst parts of S4 were the cleanup from S3 — namely, the Hopper/Russia plot.

    S4 could have leaned much more into the “Satanic Panic” theme. Dig into the “spiritual warfare” literature of the period — Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness (1986) or the Mike Warnke “Satan Seller” scandal (exposed in 1985).