[This Machine Kills Fascis]

I also think that it's best to avoid watching one of the greatest television shows ever made, because some of the episodes are worse than others.

This is why I've avoided The Wire, The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica (reboot), Aeon Flux, X-Files, and most other shows.

I mostly just watch episodes of The Prisoner and Seinfeld over and over again.
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"Godzilla could be anyone."

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

The finale is very very good, and the rest of season two is pretty watchable. Most people who look back on the show assume that all the series' mythology is in the "good" episodes, but really most of it is in the "bad" episodes. The "bad" episodes are really just a little too cute for their own good, and after watching them they feel disposable in a way that the previous episodes don't. But there are worse uses of your time than watching some subpar episodes of a great show, especially since they provide the context for a fantastic finale.

You know if there's any part of the show that really makes it better if you skip it, it's probably the last ten or so minutes of the episode that resolves Laura's murder--the part where Cooper explains in no uncertain terms exactly what Bob is and how he figured out who the "murderer" was. It really ruins a lot of the show's hard-earned subtlety. I completely forgot that they just tell you all that stuff. Pretty disappointing.
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"Godzilla could be anyone."