the 1st half of the show is practically perfect in every way. sometime around the half way mark it seemed as if the writers didnt know where they were going or what was important to the story they wanted to tell so the viewer is subjected to just about every half cocked idea that came out of the writers room. it gets slow, mostly because they have so much they are trying to include that it takes forever to sort through the various story arcs from episode to episode. what saved it for me was the acting. most of the cast played thier parts really well. i found LSG (who failed to impress me in MGIAG) to be delightful. from top to bottom, excluding Suzy, i really enjoyed the acting (and a near insane need to know what happened b/w WR AND SH.) at the beginning i defended Suzy's performance, but once it got to a point where i was wathcing more for the actors and less for the story her less than stellar acting skills really began to drag the thing down.