Maybe this season is underrated.
We got to see something a bit more realistic and the not so absurd drama in comparison to seasons before. Politics, and the open fight between Alexis and Blake over something else than the stuff Alexis thrived on to bring up.
Season one and two have a more political aura and when Fallon, Steven and Jeff, and Matthew in his way, touches the subject in that social realism-way from their view, it's hard not to love when getting to know the Denver Clan.
Combined with, in 8, the "politics" around a surrogate-birth and the entanglement it can create.