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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 5916573" data-attributes="member: 87792">YMMV.  In an awful lot of shows (the textbook example being Veronica Mars where it was a one season mystery), the first season is great - particularly the second half of the first season.  They're in the grove and are using all the 'A' plots.  Season 2 is where they are scrambling around with the ideas left on the cutting room floor of S1.  Technically more proficient, but lacking the charm and enthusiasm that it had when everything was fresh.  Season 3 is the make or break season when they see what else can happen.For authors, this goes double.  Everyone has one book in them.  The second book is, often as not, a rerun of the first book (see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), and the third book is when you find out when the author knows how to write, or just how to tell a single story.</blockquote>