You can guess how this review will go, if you have read any of the other reviews.

Season one and two were great. A lot of content that really wouldn't be acceptable any more, but doesn't stop it being funny.

Season three went off the rails a bit. It had a few unexpected turns, but it was still funny.

Season four and five... the writers didn't understand the format.

Season 1-3 had an overarching story in each season, but smaller self contained stories in each episode. They all did that thing where they mention or do something at the start of the episode, then at the end they bring it back around to cause some kind of hilarious disaster.

Season 4 and 5 though, was one long drawn out story about building a wall in Mexico. It wasn't entertaining, it was generally a bit of a mess of forgettable situations and unnecessary arguments. There weren't the individual story episodes, everything was just dragged out as a long, dull continuous story over 40 episodes.

They also didn't seem to know how to write the characters any more.

Michael became unlikeable, arrogant and selfish. Lucille lacked the original charm and had far too much introspection. George turned into a cowering mess. Buster became a cartoonish weirdo, but not in a funny way. Gob became a sniveling, pathetic, insecure waste. Gone was his bravado and self belief that made his character believable as being so ignorant. Lindsay didn't show up at all. The content she had didn't fit with the character at all. Tobias even became unlikeable by season 5. He was an educated man who was oblivious to how wrong he always was, but he basically became Buster, just some cartoonish idiot with nonsense scenarios.

The only saving grace was George Michael and Maebe, but even they couldn't prop up the whole show and they both became repetitive.

Watch seasons 1-3. Re-watch seasons 1-3.

Watch 4 and 5 once, if you feel like it.