Ok, made it through both 1 and 2. I have to say, I think the point above might be a fair take. I think if two had come first, people would think it was a good season, then would have been blown away by one had that come next. Having the benefit of a well-after-the fact watch and lowered expectations, I think that helped some. I admit, two episodes in, I was really hooked and looked forward to the next episodes. Which brings me to the problems as I saw them:

After setting the story up really well in the first two episodes, they spent the next three expanding tangent after tangent, rather than moving the main story forward. Odd. Obviously, Vince Vaughn's performance was a low-light... it seemed like we were watching him figure out how to play the character as the season went on. And finally- Stan? I truly don't understand how a guy that, by my count, had 30 seconds of pre-death screen time, and was likely described in the screenplay for those scenes as 'random henchman #1', had such an astounding and puzzling amount of time devoted to his death, the cause of it, and the aftermath...

Anyway, looking forward to season 3.