Yah I noticed my tendency to binge-watch (which I did experience sometimes during the middle of the series) fell off pretty sharply when Mike wasn't there to throw sparks into it.
I still laugh at myself though because I fell into watching that show as summer fare via seeing some passing reference. I knew absolutely nothing about it in advance. I'm not one for watching credits roll on TV episodes either. Right, so I was halfway through the first season before realizing that the paralegal character I kept thinking I'd seen "in some other show" was Meghan Markle.