What would The AV Club's commentary on Update be?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Season 1 would start out with them raving it, it'd be mentioned in all sorts of articles about "The best new shows you need to watch", lots of writers would put it down as the best new show of the season, etc. The Tolerability Index would have it as "Tolerable" one week. Most of the early episodes with ON Company and then the Ameriplan saga would get A or high B grades consistently. The comments would be amazing and hilarious and people raving about how much potential this show has. You'd have a lot comparisons to and about how it's the best show since Breaking Bad.

The next season would be mostly B's though, and then one it got all the pre-Kenya stuff the grades would drop and the comments would be funny bashing of it and talking about how it should probably be cancelled. The Utah season would be the lowest ever and comments mostly about giving up on it. But then the network would promise a shocking finale, which would deliver, get at least a B+ grade, and the comments would be full of Poochy references about how Utah would never be mentioned again. The new season would have decent grades although lots of comments complaining about how the new character Russ Powers might end up dominating the show, but thus also people being happy he was written out at the end of the season even if he dominated as the breakout character.

[Eraserhead]

I think you summed things up nicely.