Into the 2nd season now...this is addictive.
It can be. The acting is fabulous, the casting is mostly great, and the dialogue is outstanding. I think it's also important, in some unintentional ways. It really shows the isolation of DC from the rest of the country - and how no one in that town gives a damn about anything but that town, and how they can have a rich career in that town. Related to this, it shows DC as a dark town (notice the opening scenes with shadows and darkness over taking everything?). It is indeed.