I'm one of the people that think it's one of the greatest television shows ever created and always will be. But I'll also say that hype, ever single time, is a load of bullshit. Fuck hype. Watch it and if you like it, keep watching and you'll more than likely only end up loving it; if you're not so much into it, give it a chance and maybe it'll turn (this is how it was for me); and if you hate it then you hate it and the world will keep on spinning.
Hype has never done anything good for anything. Never. Not in my case at least. It's always been nothing but a fucking deluge of cumshots by rabid, deluded, blinded-by-excitement fans and ended up making me think something was going to be way better than it actually (or that I thought) it was. If you go into it with a level head, chances are you'll see it more clearly. Which in the end means only good things considering if you were going to dislike/hate it anyway, it'll just be less intense and if you were going to like it, you'll probably end up liking it more than if you thought you'd gain eternal life and a ten inch dick and a side of a hit of ecstasy from watching it (or playing it or listening to it or whatever insanely stupid hype is built up for whatever).