Sure we can thank the Eberts and Siskles for their contributions to film discourse blablablah but THIS is what Tim Burton would call "real art" (during one of his many collabs with Johnny Depp). It's almost a stream of consciousness of storytelling that slow cinema attempts to capture but that doesn't even do it justice to try boxing it into a genre or category. It's in a league of it's own and I'm truly blessed to have watched this series throughout some of the roughest years of my life when I just needed to feel good. Thank you Tim, Gregg, Mark, Joe, all the surviving members of Dekkar, I give this 5 bags of popcorn and little Oscar gold cuz I've got Oscar fever!