i like to revisit my verdict of the seasons ( mostly the main ones, there have been so many low effort "spin offs" that i gave up even paying attention to them at all after S3) now and then , to compensante for recency bias, right now i would say:
S1: surprisingly great cast with 2 great fish (jon and letty) but terrible production, it was clearly a public beta test, and i would rate the season as a whole 5/10 , people tend to give it higher rating due to nostalgia and because it was the first one but it had a lot of really boring stretches, in hindsight
S2: the hardest season to rate, the only thing i can agree on is that the cast fucking sucked, the only standout fish (as annoying as they were) were jimmy and cole, and neither survived to the end of the season, besides that it had unbelievable aesthetics and made for some of the most surreal fishtank screenshots yet, it was also pure and complete chaos both good and bad, some of the highest highs of the show but also some of the lowest lows (everything after jimmy left was basically unwatchable unless you are a machosist) , also i would say in some ways they went a bit too far with this season (really, bathroom cams? what the fuck? also the fish basically starving near the end). complete fever dream, nearly 2 years later its still hard to believe this really happened. 6/10-ish
bloodgames: Arguably the first thing production really put a lot of effort into, it was still a massive mess and not exactly my kind of thing but i have to admit it led to some hilarious moments , didn't really watch it though cause i was busy at the time. 6.5/10
S3: So far , objectively, the best fishtank season, great cast with 2 absolutely insane fish (alex and burt), equally good (and surprisingly underrated) freeloaders (jeff and the closeted gay muscle guy who pissed in people's beds) , really interesting house that they will probally will never use again , excellent production effort until FH2.0, basically interesting content every day. sadly they completely blew it up by having the absurdly retarded idea to invite Brandon in, and then basically nuked the show after they got evicted. i have to admit that the ending (not the vegas arc itself, but the actual ending) was fucking kino and easily the funniest one yet too. 8/10
S4: Where do i even start? this was absolutely dogshit, and no, i am not talking about the premature ending, even before the law trouble started the season was already a disaster. a terribly mid cast , with only 1 standout (freddy, who was basically a mild and more nontent version of alex) , low budget everything specially when compared to everything after S1, the lowest effort production yet, maybe even more so than S1. you known a season is bad when the closest people got to calling it a good season was when "celebrity" cameos happened , lmao. this season had neither content producers nor "players" just boring halfway autistic people, an unfunny "lol"cow (Rachel), blatant simp bait (angelina) and i kid you not, a fucking jailbait 18 year old for jet to lust over (ellie) yikes. The 2 decent fish (Dirench and Freddy) had no chance of saving it and neither had the freeloaders production would have tried to insert in if police hadn't mercifully killed the season early. 2/10