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    1. DingleBerrieIcecream on

      Biggest drop between two consecutive seasons seems to be when Kevin Spacey “left” House of Cards between seasons 5 and 6.

    5. womcauliff on

      So according to this graph, when was the best year to watch quality television while it aired?

    9. goyafrau on

      Do not use a symmetric color map for this purpose. The white in your red-white-blue map functions as a natural zero point when your data has no central zero and introduces weird nonlinearities. Use something like viridis instead.

      red-white-blue would be useful for something like GDP growth (which can be negative), sex ratios (which center on a natural zero of ~50%) or temperature anomaly.

      Edit: if OP really wants to plot “divergence from zero”, for this case I think at the very least using something different than white as the center would be superior … Maybe Matplotlib’s `coolwarm`.

    10. Frogblood on

      I’m surprised Supernatural maintained it’s scores into s6 and 7. It felt like most people see those seasons as a big step down in quality vs the Kripke s1-5.

    11. QuitPast on

      Good on My Hero Academia for being the one that most consistently improved, was not expecting that.

    14. Plumperknickle on

      I started Star Trek Discovery a few months ago. Glad to know that I wasn’t going crazy. It really did fall off. I have not had any urge to come back and finish the last two seasons.

    15. Paladin_127 on

      Always painful to see GoT maintain such high scores until the last season, then it absolutely shits the bed.

    17. Substantial__Unit on

      I think if they had included the previous 10 years of the Simpsons you’d see how well regarded it was. Its also been around so long that even if they had a stellar season now it would be hard to judge compared to a 3 year old show. Still I think its my pick as funniest show ive seen. But then again I was 8 when I came out so I was prime audience.

    18. rahpexphon on

      Well, that reminds me that I’m getting old. I still remember that after each episode of Lost, I would dive into the rabbit hole of research to find every little detail.

    20. Only_One_Kenobi on

      There are several series here that I’ve tried watching due to their very high ratings, and absolutely could not understand why they have such high ratings.

    23. IncurableAdventurer on

      One of the longest and most consistent is It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Hell yea

    25. iClips3 on

      Happy to see the GOAT that is Attack on titan with the single highest rating of 9.6 beating even the likes of the all-time favorites like the Wire and the Sopranos. Hope it convinces even a single person to go watch it.