My apparently unpopular opinion is that 2007 is the best. That was maybe the last year that pop was more influenced by hip-hop/rap than it was by EDM. And I mean, he built the entire thing around "Umbrella," so it's automatically awesome for that alone.

If you think of the traditional three-act narrative structure, the second act is the one in which the protagonist(s) reach their lowest point physically and/or emotionally. The third act starts when they reach a turning point, pick themselves up and resolve their conflicts one way or another. In a seven-part series…

It seems to me like the people who are most upset about the
darkness of this season are thinking of the season only in and of itself,
without considering the context of the larger story. If you think of it as part five of a 7-part story arc (which you should), this season should absolutely have
been the darkest and…