I have the same experience with the show, watched this on a second date in college once with someone I had a relationship with. It's been so long by now, it's weird to think of how different my life is from then.
**MAJOR LAST SEASON SPOILERS/VERY MINOR NEW SEASON SPOILER BELOW**
More on topic, I love this show despite how much of a mess it is now, I just find it impossible not to love Mary-Louise Parker even when her character can be ridiculously atrocious. I hear that someone from Season 1 is coming back (as the shooter) and that Jennifer Jason Leigh is coming back as well

I'm sad that I won't be able to watch it until it's up on iTunes or Netflix, I don't have Showtime any longer, but I'm excited to read reactions from fans on here, I thought last season they had a great opener, we'll see this year.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"