... with a focused narrative centered on really just the two detectives.

Here there's a lot of different threads, the corruption angles aren't as overt as the religious cult thing and a ton of names can make things hard to follow.

After finishing S1 over about two weeks, I still like it better after 3 eps but after watching S2E3 last night, the current season is growing on me a lot (especially after reading Jiggys links on Vernon).

Woody and Wooderson are a tough act to follow though.