I noticed this when I had to watch season 1 of Buffy for a college "Depictions of Women" class...
There seems to be this thing where the first season of most great shows have to feel out their audience as well as their bosses, see what they can get away with without getting cancelled.
Then, 2nd season, they've been renewed & they go crazy having a GREAT time pushing whatever their previously defined envelope was, making in-jokes because hey, they're a cult hit! (or something like that.) And they get away with it because, well, its not their first season anymore & they don't have to live in quite as much fear of not getting renewed....
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Date: 2009-09-10 02:58 am (UTC)There seems to be this thing where the first season of most great shows have to feel out their audience as well as their bosses, see what they can get away with without getting cancelled.
Then, 2nd season, they've been renewed & they go crazy having a GREAT time pushing whatever their previously defined envelope was, making in-jokes because hey, they're a cult hit! (or something like that.) And they get away with it because, well, its not their first season anymore & they don't have to live in quite as much fear of not getting renewed....