Slow burn shows where it takes time to get the small or "foundational" stuff across at the right pace, are not a problem. There are a lot of shows like that that I love. It's the ones that are unintentionally crap in the beginning, but are touted because of what they eventually figure out how to become.

IMO, if you expect me to suffer for a season because it took you that long to finally figure out how to tell your great story, then you belong in a lower level of hell than the guy who just wrote a completely bad show people can give up on early without missing a damn thing.