Oh, I forgot about Storyteller, also not ground-breaking nor surprising. My caveat was shows that blew me away or surprised me by doing something off the beaten track.

Intervention's take on the Buffy Bot and how it utilized it was interesting and surprising. Not at all what I expected. Also the parallel structure of Spike (who is considered a thing, non-human) and the Bot (also non-human) who show more concern and worry than Buffy who has become somewhat closed off since her mother died.