There's a link in this thread somewhere to an interview with Rami Malek, who confirmed multiple reports that the show's creator and writer, Sam Rami has planned for the show to run for 4 or 5 seasons and the whole thing has been written already...
The USA Network purchased this with that understanding already in place...
The show is based off an aborted attempt of his to make this into a feature film, which also already had a beginning, middle and end...
Since the show isn't going to befall the usual defection of the original writers and producers, the quality is much more likely to hold up...
Malek, for instance, already knows where all this is going and is quite confident that we haven't even come close to where this is all going...
Season One, if I recall correctly was described by Rami as "an extended introduction"...
Looking VERY forward to Season Two!

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