39 episodes of luxurious insults

Or, character development via diminishment

When someone insults you, it says more about them than it does about you. That sounds like the kind of cheer-up-Charlie platitude you offer someone who’s just been humiliated, but in the right hands it’s a powerful dramatic tool. Especially if your drama is about a bunch of tools.

And that was the secret sauce of the Best Series of Late Peak TV. Here’s why: