I remember putting on Kevin can fuck himself, and being super bored and not sure wth was going on. What was I supposed to be watching here. I turned it off. Wasn't until I heard someone describing it's message, and I dived back in. Man that was a ride! Pure brilliance. I love that it ties up, too. It was never made to be a long run, they don't do that tired thing of teasing new concepts, to never answer them, because they were beating a dead horse. It's just bam, all in, all tied up. But so delicious.
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Season 1 of the wire is definitely this. I tried to get a friend to watch it and we started with the pilot and I could tell he was like “this is so boring”. It’s definitely a slower show but when shit pops off it pops hard.
Farscape Season 1, Episode 19, the one which introduces Scorpius. That said, you really do need to watch most of the preceding episodes or else nothing is going to make any frelling sense and you'll think you've gone fahrbot.
Now I'm imagining someone tuning in to Farscape for the first time on a Harvey episode, and trying to make any sense at all out of anything they were watching.
Of course it's The Office season 2. So, episode 7. Although Basketball (episode 6) is also pretty good, it's definitely more part of the more dreary realistic season 1 feeling.
Trailer Park Boys, EP2 or so.
Benidorm, EP3.
DragonBallZ Abridged used a lot, and I mean a lot of referencial humor in their earliest season, only really starting to make characters come into their own towards the end of season 1.
By the start of season 2 with the Namek saga, they'd largely nailed their characters personalities and ditched most of the references, and as a result, seasons 2 and 3 are much more fun to watch
It's not a show, and typically one would play that game of "never read this" fairly unironically. But the webcomic Homestuck starts off REALLY slow and takes a few hundred pages to really even become interesting. It was so long ago, but I'm guessing page 246 was when I started to legitimately be interested in it. And I would say it finally gets good at page 1149.
So why did I read 245 pages of a story I wasn't very much interested in? The music, pretty much. I had already known Toby Fox had worked on something called Homestuck because of the history behind Another Medium (YouTube), and then I encountered this track (YouTube) in the wild and decided to read it at least until I reached the page this music is from.
Also, if you look at it purely for the ratio, getting good 1/8 of the way through is a little better than standard.
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Invincible. Halfway through S1 it's like they fired all the original writers
If it doesn't happen by the third or fourth episode I'm out.
Farscape:
The first 4 episodes of the first season get progressively better, but it's when you hit episode 5 "PK Tech" girl that the show hits its stride. Sure there are weak episodes after 5, but overall the show just gets better the deeper you go.
Most of Babylon 5's first season really feels like discount store-brand Star Trek substitute. The show really starts to get its feet under itself somewhere around A Voice in the Wilderness and the Season 1 finale Chrysalis is the episode for which the term "wham episode" was coined.
B5 has the unique problem that it's crap season 1 is kind of necessary homework for the rest of the show; it's one continuous story, but on first watch the first season doesn't feel like that because it's a bunch of stuff that happens that comes into play later. So unlike TNG you can't tell someone "just start at season 2." You have to sit through the first season.
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Better Call Saul, but I can't really pinpoint a specific episode. The show starts of so slow and boring but it keeps building and building and before you realize it, you're hooked. I didn't survive the first season the first time around, but I'm glad I gave it a second chance just in time for the final* season to unfold in real-time.