Hey, people can do what they want. It's just my philosophy that with any art or entertainment one should take it on its own terms, or leave it. Every word, every detail matters, and if it doesn't, it should.

But also, again, if you've already made the decision that it's a "bad story", why would you bother to FF through badness? Especially when you're likely to totally lose the context of it and not know what's going on?

No. When I read Hugo's Les Miserables, I had no inclination to FF to the "good parts". I'm not saying I'm special, I just don't approach it that way. I skim and cherry-pick with non-fiction sometimes, but not fiction. Not least because it can cause confusion later on in the story.

Okay, I should have said a *story*, not a "good story".

Then stop watching, why FF through a bad story? My feeling is that a story is like a person; either take it on its own terms, with any flaws, or absent yourself.

FFing IS a crime, in things you haven't seen. A good story is greater than the sum of its parts, and you can't know how the story will coalesce in the end. Either watch or don't watch.

Maybe. But even if that is the case, it could evolve into something more than that in the 2nd season. At the very least, it has the seeds of something interesting.

So Gilligan, burdened by guilt, decided to throw his accumulated weight around by manufacturing a meretricious show purely as a vehicle for his snubbed actress.

I'm definitely not saying they are *right*, but so far Pluribus has been featured on at least 10 major "Best of the Year" or top TV lists for 2025, including The New Yorker and The New York Times.

It bears repeating: culturally, decades end two years later.

You'll be waiting a long time, unfortunately. ☹️