Oh I do hope that you catch up with it at some point, I really loved seasons 1, 2, 3, and 5 (4 is a little shakier in the first half, but by no means bad), so I would definitely highly recommend it. Seasons 2 and 5 especially are near-perfect seasons of television IMHO. And in spite of what now seems to be coming out about the difficulties behind the scenes, I do find Julianna to be really wonderful in the part of Alicia

And yes, undoubtedly there's an issue of tact in what you're going to say about your starring players, but you can't act so defensive and shocked at it coming up when you have two members of your (smallish) cast very pointedly only sharing scenes over the phone for two years, and then the characters final send-off being with the magic of green screen. It does make the set look ridiculously unprofessional to accommodate the actors like that, and snapping that it's all television magic and we don't kill actors for real either when a character gets shot isn't exactly called-for when Ausiello was addressing real issues with the storytelling