I tend to wind up watching it with my kid sister when I'm stuck babysitting her. I mean, it's a fun show. The continuity aspect is appealing. Some of the character archetypes are transparently banal and you can tell who's going nowhere but, somehow, the show still has a way of making you give a damn - however slight! - about the fate of its cast.
From what I've seen of this season thus far with the kid, I'm rooting for Sam despite knowing that he's done for soon enough. His voice actor and personality reminds me of KC Green, this comic artist who's absolutely great.
Issue is, he's too nice and not pathetic enough to be allowed to continue when eliminating him can generate some "shock" instead. Seeing as the little black kid's got him beat in the "pathetic pushover" archetype, he's more likely to stick it out most of the way through.
But yeah. I'm no diehard fan. When it's on, it's on. I can watch it without groaning, most times, but it's usually only when I can't watch a movie or something for the sake of my kid sister.