how is the latest season?

The show has never suffered a decline in quality or hilarity.

Says you. A lot of people would disagree.

To the OP, it's too early to tell, really. So far, it's been OK. Not that good and not that bad. I've only laughed once and it was a silly joke in last night's episode which I can't even remember now. They're cramming a LOT of information in each episode, too. A ton of characters, a ton of back story, a ton of pop culture references. It's a little much. There's no breathing room. Maybe when the season is over and you can watch it all at once, it won't be a big deal, but watching it episode to episode, it's a little frustrating. Here's eight new characters and here's a bit of backstory for the Monarch and here's another contrived reason to bring old characters to New York and here's fifteen references to old 80's bands and here's Guild plot and here's Venture plot and here's Monarch plot all crammed into 22 minutes. I'm also not yet sold on this reinvention the show did. Moving them to New York and, worse, giving them a ton of money hasn't really paid off yet. Maybe it will later, though. I don't know. A big part of the show was how the Ventures were really broke and unsuccessful, so I don't see how giving them billions of dollars will be a good thing, kind of like how Roseanne won the lottery, but, like I said, it's too early to really judge. A negative of the move to New York is the massive influx of new characters. I said before that at this point in the show's run, they should be answering questions and tying up loose ends, not making new ones and I stand by that. I've yet to see the reasoning for moving the show's setting and dumping a ton of established characters for a bunch of new ones. Again, maybe it will pay off but I'm not getting my hopes up.

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Yeah, I'm liking it a lot better than Season 5 so far. The Monarch stuff is interesting and I loved the joke with the mice in the last episode. I'm still not sure why they decided to relocate to New York and give them a ton of money. That whole thing hasn't really paid off yet, but maybe it will later. It hasn't hurt the show much, but I do think they've shoved in far too many new characters because of it and there hasn't been any real benefit. It's not too much of a problem, though. I thought the first three episodes were a little too crammed with plot lines and characters but the last episode was good.

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I would put it thusly: if you like Mad Furiosa, the Avengers movies, and the new Star Wars movie, you'll like this. If you hate those movies, you'll probably be disappointed. The change in tenor is kind of like going from Season 3 to 4 of Metalocalypse.

Well, I thought 'Fury Road' was pretty good but seriously overrated, I don't like the Avengers movies at all and I hated "The Nostalgia Awakens" but I think this season has been pretty good, so that shoots your theory down.

I do agree with some of your points, though, and I don't think this season is as good as the first three, not by a long shot. I agree that it sucks that they dropped a whole lot of good characters and replaced them with new ones that aren't that interesting and there still has been no real benefit for moving the show to New York. I agree with you about Hank and Dean. Dean, in particular, seems to have regressed. Still, the Monarch's Blue Morpho plotline is interesting and it's nice that they're finally getting into this Venture/Monarch thing that's been set up from the first episode. This show is really bad about setting things up and not finishing them. One of the few things they did do was say who Hank and Dean's mother was and then last season they undid that with what is, in my opinion, the absolute worst episode in the entire series. They're finally getting down to it and it's about time.

Of course, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that next season, which will probably come out in two years, they completely drop all the Blue Morpho stuff and go off on some other tangent and leave us hanging again. It's hard to tell if they have some grand plan going or if they're just yanking our chains. If this season wasn't good, I was going to bail but it's been good enough to keep me interested.

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I thought the whole reason for the Dean "reversion" is that pep talk Hank gave him at the end of Season V when he realizes that being a clone is only a negative if you think it is. Maybe it's a little unrealistic to have just flip back from angsty Dean on a dime, but I'm assuming the compound-to-New-York transition took some time that was kind of skipped over via montage.

There's also the potential explanation of the constant memory wipes Hank was undergoing for as to why he's acting differently. A bit of a stretch, but possible, I guess. Or maybe he has actual feelings for Sirena that have him less sure of himself? It was probably relatively low-risk when he was hitting on the mailwoman, and he no longer has the power of his detective's hat that won him Dermott's sister. Still, the difference in his behavior is harder to explain.

Having seen it all now, I think Season VI had a number of good episodes, but it kind of acted like the middle movie in something designed from the start to be a trilogy; it did a lot of place-setting for what's to come later without paying much of it off. I think it was mostly entertaining while it did so, which is about all that you can ask for, but much of Season VI's overall value will be determined by Season VII and possibly VIII. Hopefully we'll see the Order of the Triad, Triana, and even Dermott then (I don't particularly miss him, but it's weird that he'd just fall off of the earth for the Ventures after his status as half-brother to Hank and Dean was outed). I'm assuming they thought it'd be too convoluted to try and bring the whole compound group over; they strained credulity in bringing in Billy & Pete.

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