Got so soapy
Spoilers:
This show started out so strong in Season One. About halfway through, it started to get convoluted and heavy handed, and just seemed so "Melrose Place" to me. What was with that daytime soap stalker plot (and it did seem like he was just about to cheat with her if his beeper hadn't gone off)? You could tell the writers were trying to stretch stuff out.
Then Season Two with the Timothy Olyphant character. It felt so forced and contrived and just soapy. Who is sleeping with who. Who's back-stabbing who.
I'm sure that writing television is extremely difficult. Writers can come up with the best of premises, but they need fillers no matter what, in order to make a show stretch out for several seasons. It is the VERY RARE show (The Wire might be the only one I know of) that can make a show last without turning it into a soap. I couldn't get past Season Two (most of which I fast forwarded and read the plot on Wikipedia), and then just read the rest. Once you make the main character into a murderer, you're in soap land.