The Legend of Korra S2-S4

I finally finished this show a few weeks back, and I was really blown away by it in the end. It's easily one of the best animated shows of the past decade, and although I think Avatar was, in the end, a more polished work, to me Korra is better. Partly that's because of things like the setting (I'm a historian of modernity, and the 1920s setting was always going to be more appealing to me than Avatar's premodernity, but more on this later), and the music and the animation being better than Avatar, just because of the time that passed between them. But I also think Korra told a more complex story than Avatar did, and even if it didn't always succeed perfectly, that more complex story is the one that I think is more mature and more interesting.

( I think the contrasts between the two shows are telling. )

P.S. I haven't read all of beccatoria's essay on Korra because it's 10K words (omg), but the parts I have read, I've liked!

ETA: Amazing post on the evolution of bending between the shows and within Korra.