Yes, it was the same for me too - somewhere in the season 2 I just all over sudden started to care for the characters and see them as real people. And I am loving the way the story is deepening with the various warehouses: we are speculating where the warehouse 1 was. :D I said in China. :D

Oh, it will be months before we go to Russia, but we made a definite decision, so I am getting excited. I also love them in sour cream. And in soup. And my mother makes beautiful mushroom dumpling things.