Matthew Sowden

I didn’t watch Firefly until well after it had been and gone (2013, to be precise) and immediately beat myself up for not watching it sooner. Watching it in this respect is something akin to falling in love with a person you already know is terminally ill - you get increasingly upset, angry and bereft as the end approaches and helpless when it does. It is a great example of good, complex characters inhabiting simple stories being a recipe for what makes a masterpiece, something that seems lost on people these days, with their cookie cutter characters in twisty-turny nonsense that sets up everything and payoffs nothing. Yes, I’m looking at you JJ. Anyway, Desperate Housewives gets 8 seasons and this gets 14 episodes. That should tell you everything you need to know about the state of American TV in the early 00’s right there.