Just finished bingeing all eight seasons of Psych. Amazing TV show, which began with a wonderful conceit and then proceeded to executed it flawlessly.
Bingeing a series over a short period of time allows you to see it in a different light. Episodes seen back to back read less like a series of weekly offerings and more like a novel.
And that makes it easier to see how the writers are thinking. A show can be entertaining week to week, but it’s the long term character arcs, the evolving relationships — platonic or otherwise — that truly hold an audience’s interest.
Which is not really surprising. What we humans really care about, at the end of the day, is the relationships between our fellow humans.