Adam Lowe

The critical reception for this show is proof that professional critics fail at their jobs. This show was amazing. I'm not the target demographic for this show. Not even close. And yet even I found it difficult to stop watching it. It has artistry and a profound message without being high brow or heavy handed in putting it in your face or cramming it down your throat. And above all, it had an interesting story with believable, multifaceted characters. Characters whose plight the show did an excellent job at making the audience care about and invest in emotionally. For everyone who has googled this show and seen the 40-something percent Rotten Tomato rating that pops up at the top of the results, I urge you to dig further. Go to the actual rotten tomato page and look at the audience score. At time of writing, it sits at a highly watchable 70 percent. You see, professional critics these days have completely lost sight of their purpose. They think their job is to tell you what to think or feel about a movie or show, when their actual job is to help people predict whether or not said people would actually like said show. And as you can see, they utterly fail at their jobs. They are out of touch with reality and society. The very nature of their jobs - - watching movie after movie and show after show for a living - - makes them develop some serious idiosyncrasies that renders them poorly suited at predicting what normal people might like. That's not even considering how they're often trapped in the Hollywood insider echo-chamber. This show, based on its genre and target demographic, was already something I was highly skeptical about enjoying. If I had only looked at the aggregated critics' scores, I would never have given it a chance. And having binged all of the first season, I can safely say that it would have been my loss. This show is awesome. Watch it.