I care much more that VM taps into the emotional through-lines in a given episode. For me, the mystery is the device, I think, more than the point.
I know that this will put me in a sparse minority but I'm in it for the weekly mysteries. I've never been all that emotionally invested in the characters and that's something I'm half grateful for; characters on this show get trampled on for the concerns of the plot and more than a few of the stories' emotional wells have been properly explored so I'm partially glad I haven't had to trade off. Like, I encountered once, here perhaps, someone saying 'Wasn't 'Clash of the Tritons great?' and I thought 'Yeah, it was.' And then when they went on to add 'Weren't those counselling sessions intense?', I can remember thinking 'There were counselling sessions in it?' 'Blast from the Past', 'Versatile Toppings', 'My Big Fat Greek Rush Week', 'Like A Virgin', 'Driver Ed': these are my people and they're my people because they were such intricately and gracefully made mechanisms.