Do I need to watch the first three seasons?
I'm trying to get through the first season, but it's slow going, just so I can eventually get to the new season.
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Of course you need to watch the first three seasons!
This isn't the kind of show you can just start watching at any point.
I am rewatching it from the beginning now, and it may have started out a bit slow, but then it really pulls you in, and the first season finale is mind-blowing.
Thanks for your advice.
I have to be honest, the main woman in the first season is a sticking point for me. She's clearly a nice person, and Joe is clearly a creepy stalker, but I just find her so insipid and annoying (in a nice person kind of way). Also, I don't like her 'poor girl' act (i.e. pretending her dad is dead, when he's in fact cleaned himself up, and is funding her lifestyle; she makes it sound as if the reality is worse than her lie, but it feels like the opposite to me). Joe is an asshole, and she's a sympathetic innocent, but I also don't understand what he sees in her. She's such a drip, and her poetry is awful IMHO ('The Ladle'? WTF?)
I really didn't find Beck to be a sympathetic character all in all.
Which is not to say that she deserved what she got for it in the end, but she had a lot of issues.
Actually, a bit of a spoiler: none of the women Joe falls in love with are "nice people".
Your second line is a bit of a spoiler, as I'm not fully through S1 yet, but don't worry (just don't spoil the next three seasons, okay? Since I'll probably take your advice and persist with them).
And so far, I find Beck (sorry, I forgot her name) to be reasonably sympathetic (she's certainly not objectionable, at least not yet, from a moral POV), but just very wet and dull. I can understand someone wishing her well, but I can't understand how anyone could be obsessed with her as Joe is (then again, I'm not inclined to stalk anyone, so who knows?)
Well, that's Joe's problem - that he just falls in love at first sight, knowing absolutely nothing about the person at all. And it's instantly a "forever" kind of love.
They will delve into his psyche more in season 2.