The first season didn't really sell me, finding me frequently considering dropping it, but by the second, I was really won over by the über-heightened and gritty style of the show. Every single character (or very nearly) is more incredible, more brutal, more anything-you-want than any real life human being would be, but once you embrace that rather than roll your eyes at it, the series becomes a thrilling ride of badassery and show downs, with frequently surprising levels of emotion to ground my investment in the story and characters (if admittedly not any sense of realism). ( )