Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Let's hope for a season 2 (though I'm never sure if those online petitions do much good, it at least makes me feel like I'm taking action, giving voice to my preferences). :)

Like you, my reaction to the first few episodes was tepid at best (I didn't mind it, and it was just quirky enough to keep me recording it after "Eureka", but there was no emotional investment from me at all until at least 3 or 4 episodes in).

And there are some characters that I could maybe do without. I kinda love the elderly brothers who are experts on women's fashion and keep up that brotherly bickering. But "the Chief" (Nathan's dad) seems like a pain in the butt most of the time and not much of an asset to anyone on the show, so I don't miss him when he's not around. Still, I suppose he helps to explain some of Nathan's reserve.

It took me a while to tune into the low-key intensity that lies just below Nathan's semi-impassive public face, but now that he's emoting more and Duke is being more serious, I'm liking the vibe off the threesome they make with Audrey. And having the new doctor be a younger woman who -- unlike her mother -- doesn't much like the town she grew up in, or at least doesn't like the weirdness that goes with it, does have the potential to make a neat quartet of young 'outsiders' in one sense or another, ready to stir things up.

It was a slow starter, no doubt (I remember not being at all impressed by the premiere episode, but it was just quirky enough to make me willing to keep recording it after "Eureka"), but after the first few episodes it really started to hook me emotionally, as well as intellectually as a mildly interesting puzzle.