Yeah, but the thing with the old shows is you can just skip ahead. It was all made for an age where everything was self contained. The most you'd get was a two-part episode.

Now it's all made for the Netflix binge generation, where every new episodes assumes you've seen all the previous ones. I mean, there's nothing inherently wrong with that, and it gave us great shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad, but it does mean they need to get their shit together immediately, and not have several seasons of shit before they find the story they actually wanted to tell.