They tease us, dropping little promises of fascinating backstory revelations and honest-to-god intriguing character relationships and development. And when we get a whiff of that, like a dog made to hold a biscuit on its nose with the promise that it'll get to eat it if it waits, we wade through weeks of mediocrity and flat-out suckiness for a few precious moments in an episode like To The Last Man or Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Oh, we're such whores.