S1-S4 are much better, much more enjoyable, not in terms of the quality of the show, but in that people don't have to cope with the endless craziness that life lobs at them.
A man, disillusioned with humanity and in denial of both God and death, falls on his knees at the dawn of a nuclear war, offering his everything for it not to happen. 1. we put ourselves in the chains of our own free will; 2. every gift is also a sacrifice; 3. civilization is built on sin; 4. in "tidying-up" the garden we've destroyed all its beauty; 5. in the beginning was the Word. (And the Word was with God. And the Word was God.)