35 People Share A TV Show That Started Out Promising “But Turned Out To Be Garbage”
It's one thing to set up the main characters and themes at the beginning of a TV show; however, the true test for its creators lies in developing them and keeping the audience invested and entertained.
Reddit user SourceOfAnger decided to live up to their nickname and stir up some drama, so they made a post on the platform, asking everyone, "Which TV show started out promising, but turned out to be garbage?"
It struck a chord with disappointed fans and they immediately started naming series that let them down.
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I think most people will tell you Game of Thrones was great until the last season.
CaptainRedBeardd:
Directors literally saw what people wanted from the ending and said Nah we don't want to be predictable. Ruined the series for me.
Showing my age a bit, but *The X Files.*
At first, it was a cool "Monster of the Week" show, and then it started going more into a "Vast Alien Conspiracy" plot, which was also really interesting. Then, after a few seasons of watching to see how things played out, you started to realize that the writers didn't have any idea where they were going with the plot, and everything just fell apart.
I don't mind it up to season 7 (even though it had already gone downhill). After that it became a completely different show
The Walking Dead. It had the potential to be such a good show, but I finally gave up like season 5 or 6, which was probably a lot more than I should have given it.
ilyazrey56t43ter43:
It started off as a great show and then just became a rinse and repeat of 'Oh, there is another group of human survivors. We'll clash and then kill each other.
Grey’s Anatomy. The first few seasons were interesting and it went downhill after a few seasons. Kept watching in the hopes it would get better… It didn’t.
Heroes. Season 1 was amazing but it went downhill fast after that.
GavinBelsonsAlexa:
The writer's strike ruined a lot of shows at the time. I didn't hate seasons 2 & 3, but I am comfortable never watching them again for the rest of my life.
Nah... Heroes, I felt, was never amazing. The writers kept breaking their own rules regarding powers and abilities and character arcs, even within the first season. And the finale was like it was choregraphed by a drunk, blind squirrel and the director's only instruction to the actors was "look like you're doing something urgently."
The Blacklist. The concept is amazing but it quickly falls into a repetition of the same episode plots over and over, just like every other network cop/crime show.
They should have ended the series instead of killing off Elizabeth Keen.
Lost. It's clear that the fandom guessed what the island was by the first season and instead of leaning into it they kept adding mystery upon mystery to keep the audience guessing. At the end what the hell was it about? Some smoke monster thats acutally a guy or the devil or whatever and island magic. It's the reason why I refuse to watch anything by Abrams or Lindeloff.
How to Get Away with Murder. So much potential initially, but it all dissolved into nonsense and elongating the series for absolutely no reason. Such a shame.
evenge_of_the_Khaki:
It was very clearly a show with a formula that they stuck with WAY too hard. It's one thing to have a similar plot, it's another thing to literally copy/paste every plot point at the same point in each season 5 times in a row.
Well you made it through a few seasons. I did not make it through one episode.
Well, How I Met Your Mother was a fantastic show up until literally the very last episode. Talk about ruining something great.
Bigrobbo:
I actually got angry at this... I mean literally the build up was perfect they meet and we've seen all the love they have shared and then... HA, she died Ted's gonna go hook up with Robin again... WHAT!
Once Upon a Time. I can't get over the fact that characters kept switching sides, as though all the work they'd done to build trust and establish relationships was suddenly meaningless, or suddenly the betrayal that the character made a few episodes before didn't matter, they were redeemed by virtue of the fact that they simply wanted to come back to the good guys again.
That level of relationship fluidity was so unrealistic that it broke the immersion of the show for me... a show about fairy tale characters come to life...
Each season finale had a new curse cast on the town (talk about rinse and repeat...), and the final season was absolutely unnecessary (and boring as hell) since most main characters were gone. I loved that show in the beginning but it went steeply downhill in the later seasons.
Almost every cw superhero show. Flash and Arrow had amazing first seasons. Then they slowly got worse and worse until they were complete garbage.
I stopped watching Arrow maybe in the second season. Flash i finished but it was sooo sooo bad. Iris is one of the most annoying characters ever
The Big Bang Theory.
It actually started out as a show with a lot of nerdy in-jokes.
Over the seasons, it has morphed into literally a mockery of its former self.
A typical joke punchline used to be a callback to some obscure comic fact.
Now the joke punchline is that the character reads comics.
I'm basically somewhat of a nerd myself. I get all the comic and science jokes. What I don't get is that fans of the show don't see the underlying misogynistic and racist undertones that show has. And what I hated was the fact that those for, who always were made fun of by basically bullies, continued the cycle and made fun of each other...for the very same reasons they were bullied in the first place. utter bs
For me, personally, it has to be Stranger Things... I loved the first season, but I could not get into the second season at all... After the first 4 episodes, I just gave up disappointed. I'll get my share of downvotes for this opinion, I'm sure.
headcoatee:
I thought I was alone on this! I totally agree. That first season was pitch-perfect. Once season 1 ended, I remember thinking the Duffer Bros had the cred to do just about anything they wanted to, and couldn't wait to see what new thing they would do...and then they just proceeded to rehash Stranger Things for two more seasons.
True Blood. First two seasons were good but something happened where it just became an absolute dumpster fire.
LizLemonKnope:
The first two seasons stayed pretty close to the books, then as the show went on, strayed from the source material. I think that’s why it went downhill.
The Handmaid's Tale. Season One was possibly the best drama show on TV at the time. Now, it's literally a s**t show.
calibancreed;
I think a lot of that is because the first season (mostly) followed the plot of the book and ended exactly where the book did (minus the epilogue in the book) and that ambiguity is so perfect for the world. Subsequent seasons were definitely far worse off for it.
A person wanted to see what happened to June, but she became such an annoying character that I also hate-watched for the last few seasons. They should have worked out an arc for what happened after the end of the book, but you could tell they were just winging it after the first season.
Misfits... Nathan Leaving started the decline, and when the last of the original 5 went it was dead in the water.
That 70’s show
The earliest seasons were so great but with each new season the show just went downhill. Especially the final season, god i hated the writers and the director for ruining the show
Loved the early ones, after Eric left, it went down the crapper. Marion Ross as Red's mom was great, though.
Westworld
Season 1 was perfect, an amalgamation of mystery, action, drama, twists and turns, exceptional writing, and the perfect amount of existentialism.
Season 2 was good as well but not nearly as good. Much like season 1, they repeated a ton of scenes which makes sense in the story but by that point it was becoming tiring.
Season 3, I didn't even finish cause of how boring it was. Continually rehashed old plot points, leaned WAY too much into the idea of "what is consciousness," and hardly took place in Westworld.
There are leaks of season 4 and they're STILL repeating scenes from SEASON 1!!
Supernatural. The first 2 seasons are great, the 3rd-5th seasons are really good and expand on the first 2 seasons. Then the 6th through 15th seasons are just bland and uninspired and not even campy. The first third of the series is great, but the other two-thirds turned out to be garbage. I didn't even finish watching the final season, I just read the synopsis and wasn't surprised at how dumb it ended.
Vikings.
Awesome stroryline, great characters, touched on old religious and philosophical themes, great battle sequences etc. Great show.
But after season 3 something happened with the writing. Season 4 was split into two parts through the year. That was weird. 4B came out and it was clear the show was slipping. After that it just fell apart with story, character arcs, motives….it just sank.
Once Ragnar was no longer the focal point, the showrunners apparently decided that what the show needed was a dozen different central characters.
Dexter is my absolute favorite show of all time but good god season 8 was s**t. The revival has been so much better.
BAHatesToFly:
Dexter introduced me to the concept of hate-watching. I loved the first two seasons, but Season 3 fell way off, then season 4 was great, then seasons 5 and 6 were dogs**t and I started hate-watching. The old AV Club used to do episode recaps and the comments section was so funny ripping apart the episodes.
Season 7 had some good moments but dropped off, then season 8 was an utter abomination.
When Dexter's sister started having sexual fantasies about him I was done (yes I know he was adopted)
Riverdale. That s**t went absolute bonkers.
LiterallyANun:
I enjoyed it for how utterly absurd it was. A show about teenagers growing up in small town America.
Except there's gang turfwars, Mafiosi, suicide pacts, people faking their death, illegal fight clubs, serial killers, legitimate business ownership, children with way more money and influence than they should realistically have, secret societies, underground bunkers, and Dungeons and Dragons.
Every episode you're surprised with something new that still somehow manages to be even more moronic than what came before.
I stopped watching once all that Gargoyle King c**p started happening.
Orange Is The New Black just kind of… fell off.
PineappleDifferent80:
After Poussey died, they should have just ended it. Depressing ending, but also very fitting since it’s about an American prison.
IBeatUpLiamNeeson:
Once I got to the season where they kind of over run the prison, and they started making the really cheesy jokes, I just stopped watching. Like every single scene was ending on a joke you feel you should here the trombone hitting the wahhh wahhhhhhhhh with.
Sleepy Hollow, first season was fantastic, absolutely made sense that they got renewed only two or three episodes in. The whole premise was highly engaging and enjoyable, Icabod dealing with the 21st century, the monsters, the whole overreaching plot hooked you from the start.
Then… Second season was a little rough, but still enjoyable.
I didn’t even finish the third season, and once I heard that Abbie was killed, fourth season had no interest. The whole point was them being fated to be partners against the coming apocalypse!!! You can’t just kill off one of them and then just hand wave in another partner and act like that’s all fine and dandy when instead you established in the first couple episodes that it can only be them.
I’ve yet to rewatch the first season because I just remember how disappointed I was seeing where it went and how it ultimately ended.
Under the dome, the first few episodes were pretty good but eventually it got less interesting/more stupid.
Altered Carbon. Loved the first season but really didn’t enjoy season 2.
trumpelstiltzkin:
"Our main character is almost TOO good. Let's swap out for a different one!"
American Gods.
It started out amazing and really kept me invested for the first 2 seasons! But it fell way off after Orlando left and then I just kept hearing terrible things about how it was behind the scenes. The show had a lot of potential and they got screwed horribly.
American Gods had no showrunner and no competent writing staff for the majority of its run. Orlando left because no one would compensate him for basically taking over as head writer when no one else would. He is a very talented man.
The Fairly OddParents it was an amazing kids show at one point even beating spongebob in viewers but it dropped the ball after puff was introduced then when they added the dog and the annoying girl and ruined it.
13 Reasons Why.
imthenanny:
I agree should have stopped it at season one. Just do the book adaptation and be done with it.
Honestly Downton Abbey. The first two and a half seasons are fantastic, then it gets really silly really fast. How many times can Mr. Bates possibly get arrested???
Kim's Convenience.
I wouldn't say the last season was total *garbage*, but it was full-on Flandersization of most of the characters, dropped important storylines, and left everyone hanging at the end. They did their cast dirty on that show, and it has started off so, so good.
I'm just happy that a few of the actors are on to amazing things! I was so excited to see Simu Liu in Marvel and now Paul Lee will be Uncle Iroh!!!
Pretty Little Liars. It started as a fun concept and fun show to watch. The writing and plot line went downhill within the first few seasons, it because repetitive and all over the place, I still refuse to watch the last season because the writing became terrible.
And can we all agree that the Aria/Ezra plot line was so gross, unneeded, and inappropriate?!
This started out great but then just started to get confusing. When you think they have it figured out who the killer is, nope, not that person. After about the fourth time of that, I gave up. I kept thinking it was going to be the end of the series but, it just kept going on and on like that.
True Detective. Season 1 was best. Top of the class. But subsequent seasons were average.
NoGoodIDNames:
IIRC the first season was a project the writer had worked on and slowly perfected for years, and then once it came out and was a huge hit they expected him to do the same thing again in a fraction of the time.
So he tried a completely new storyline for 2 which bombed, then went back and recycled a lot of 1’s stuff for 3, which did better but still wasn’t as good as 1.
Shameless, the first 4 seasons were good but then all of the characters just started to self sabotage and it made the show repetitive and annoying.
Stitchers.
Imagine this: a device is invented to see into the last memories of dead people, and an organization uses this tech to solve murders. The woman who has to relive the murders is the daughter of the inventor, whom she is estranged from and (I believe) thought was dead. So this chick is solving murders and trying to track down her genius dad. Makes for some gritty drama, right? Wrong. It’s a Freeform show so it just devolves into a love triangle between the woman and her male coworkers. I came here for sci-fi crime-solving, dammit!
Dracula.
It only has 3 episodes but the first is amazing. I was really blown away by it. Then episode 2 came with a story line so far below i could hardly believe it.... they really hit rock bottom.... somehow they managed to create a final episode which dug so far below rock bottom its best to just fill the hole and forget it ever existed.
If you're talking about the Gatiss & Moffatt version, I agree. The 2013 series with Johnathan Rhys Meyers was good though.
Vampire Diaries. I mean, i guess it never was a masterpiece to begin with but it had many things I typically enjoy; vampires and supernatural beings, some love triangles and drama. I liked the characters (crushed so hard on Damon) and the story. But I still felt that the 5th or 6th season (cant remember which) had a really good ending that tied up most loose ends the show had and gave a satisfying end to the show. I was dissapointed till learn that they were making more seasons and stopped watching.
Also, on a similar note:
Grimm. I was so excited and was hooked after I saw the pilot but I dont even think I finished the first season. For me it just fell flat. I feel like Supernatural did whatever Grimm tried to do but better (even though Supernatural also is an honorable mentions, but I've already seen others listing it)
Ohhhh, Weeds, [screw] that [nonsense] programme.
stealthc4:
It’s a great concept to have a suburban soccer mom selling weed but I didn’t sign up for a cartel show and, after that, it never found a good storyline again.
Manifest. Interesting concept and potentially room for some cool sci-fi narratives but god it took like 3 episodes to become such a huge disappointment.
Superstore.
My GF convinced me to watch it because she wanted something light and funny.
We were actually laughing out loud many times - one time even leading to a laugh cramp (as we call it in austria).
Very soon I noticed that the jokes got flatter and somehow the actors seemed less convincing.
Kinda sad.
When America Ferrara left so did the fun. Which is odd given that she was essentially the straight man in the show.
Modern Family It just got very formulaic and the characters have no development.
It was a queer first in many ways doing things Will & Grace or even earlier Norman Lear shows couldn’t get away with on broadcast tv, but then flatlined into a predictable routine. There’s a great book on LGBTQ+ television that includes a lot of behind the story interviews and the politicking that got them to air. From the coded queer characters of the 50s/60s thru Modern Family and beyond. It’s called “Hi Honey, I’m Homo” by Matt Baume.
House of cards after season 2.
level 2Inle-rah:
I came for this one. Started off brilliantly. Should have just ended it when they found out you know who did you know what.
The US version. Not the UK original which was absolutely brilliant. But of course, I couldn’t possibly comment.
Revolution - an interesting premise, our world and electricity couldn't be used anymore, but man by the last episode it was...something else entirely.
oil_can_guster:
Man I was so into the first half-season of that show. By the end of season 1 I was already exhausted. I think its biggest problem is that it was written for standard-length seasons when it should've been a one-season show or miniseries.
Wayward Pines was excellent the first season and dogshit the following season. Season 1 is based on the books, and season 2 just couldn’t replicate the greatness of the first season. They should have just made it a one season thing.
MTV's Teen Wolf. It was pretty decent, didn't pretend to be anything it wasn't. It was cheeky and fun and had a rabid fan base. But sometime around season three, the actors and producers/directors got a little excited with their new career prospects being on a rapidly growing show, acted dumb, and the show f*****g TANKED. Stopped watching after season 3 or something, and it ended somewhat unceremoniously after season 6. The show did give us Dylan O'Brien though.
Glee.
sayhellotojenn:
Yes! The pilot was actually excellent and hinted at a much more grounded show with hints of melancholy. Then it went off the rails, with only hints of the show we saw in the pilot coming back later.
Mr. Schue of the pilot was BLEAK. You really got the feeling that this man is one mouthy teenager away from a nervous breakdown so ok, no wonder you want to cling to the last time you were happy (which, it’s sad enough that this happens to be his high school glee club championships). His wife is clearly an asshole from the beginning, though she later shows herself to be a special kind of psychotic. He’s constantly being dragged by Sue. He’s not a particularly great teacher. Life is depressing.
And it’s depressing for the kids too, at least the ones that aren’t cheerleaders or football players. Constantly being thrown in trash cans or locked in porta-potties or having slushies thrown at them. And then somewhere along the line, all these assholes get too cocky. Schue loses any sense of boundaries with his students. And instead of this show about a small town in Ohio where realistically most of the students will never leave and work mediocre jobs for the rest of their lives, like half of the Glee club moves to New York and gets famous and Quinn goes to an Ivy League school and Demi Lovato shows up for whatever reason and it just becomes more unrealistic the longer you watch.
I still can’t believe I watched this show all the way until the end. I’ve since given up on the concept of “well I made it this far, now I’ve got to see it through to the end!”.
Glee was never good. I saw the first episode and felt homicidal rage unlike anything I'd ever experienced. 0/10
Prison break. First season was unreal and then it got much worse every season.
Dafuzz:
When the whole show revolves around the titular prison break, you can only forestall showing it for so long, and then once you do have the prison break there isn't a clear path how to keep the show related to the title. So back to prison it is.
I realized two episodes in that they were going to drag it out and gave up even though Wentworth Miller is *fine*.
Suits.
BlackKlopp:
Yep, the first 3 seasons were fantastic imo, then from Season 4, it becomes personal drama, then when Mike and Rachel leave, it just becomes a caricature of itself. Such a decline.
The 100 was cheesy garbage, got really good, then ended as garbage. What a ride.
IrrelevantPuppy:
The 100 is one of my most confusing consuming experiences. First season: “god this teen drama s**t is so trash. Why would anyone watch this?… why am I still watching this?” Later seasons: “did… did this actually get good?” But then kinda hit a soft barrier where things just got steadily more tired, boring, dramatic and I just forgot about it.
I’ve never gone from hate watching to unironically enjoying before.
This was one of my all time favorite shows. But season 5 was so horrible, it was just torture to get through. I liked season 6 though, but I never watched the final season.
Last man on earth…the first three episodes were absolute gold, genuinely some of the funniest tv ever made…..literally everything after that was trash (sorry will forte)
YOU. Watched it with my girlfriend and was enjoying it. Reached season 3 and it felt so repetitive and annoying.
The first three seasons of Arrested development was great.
_AreWeHavingFunYet_:
Original run of AD is arguably the greatest sitcom ever. So densely packed with jokes. I liked the original release of Season 4 (Season 4 re-cut is bad), but it was clearly a level below 1-3 and it took a while for some the jokes to pay off. Season 5 was a f**king mess and I couldn't even finish it.
The original release of Season 4 had a mystery element to it, how all these things kind of fit together, then it wrapped up almost all of those threads clearly. It was very satisfying, even though it is inarguably not as good as seasons 1-3. The re-cut lost ALL of that charm and intrigue, and was a slog to go through. Season 5 is...yeah, no. It's shot terribly, has nothing memorable about it, and an ending that's just nonsense.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
I loved everyone in it (Aunt Hilda has my heart), but then it just started getting bad. Almost like Riverdale. It could’ve been a lot better. I stopped watching halfway through season 2 but I saw clips of later episodes on social media.
You could tell Arrow was meant to only be a few seasons but then just kinda snowballed.
GavinBelsonsAlexa:
I watched the whole series, because I'm an idiot, but as soon as they introduced sci-fi and fantasy elements, the show was going off the rails. The first two seasons were a gritty, "realistic" take that drew inspiration in equal measure from the Dark Knight trilogy and Mike Grell's run at the character in the '80s and '90s: no magic, no gadgets, just a mean guy with a bow. They they introduced the Flash and the Lazarus Pits and Damien Dahrk, and it just kept getting worse and worse.
Zoo. Read the book and loved the concept of man's effect of animal life through technology. First episode of the tv series stretches that concept a little bit which I was fine with, it's a tv adaption after all. But then it just went full sci Fi chanel-esque and right off the deep end.
The last season with all the drone and sci-fi stuff really was weak and that not even includes the lousy story
Spongebob Squarepants. The first three seasons were legendary. But starting at season 4, it became a different show. The charm, creativity, and memorable jokes were all gone.
Gotham. The villains like the penguin, the riddler, Jerome, and scarecrow. I’m watching season 5 now and I’m not really liking it.
Crater_Raider:
Gotham had high highs and low lows. You could tell some writers were just waaaaay better than others. Some episodes would knock it out of the park so hard. Ed's initial Riddler descent was great. Freezes origin. Jerome got better every time (Gordon punching his face off is still a highlight for me)
But then there was a ton of dropped storylines, contradictions, and characters were constantly being rewritten from the ground up- Barbra was someone new every season. Poison Ivy was literally 3 different people, and Riddler ends up being inconsistent in the end too.
There is a scene with The Riddler in season 3 or 4, where he is dramatically "figuring out" a wall in Arkham. I remember that being a chef kiss moment.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Started out great. The last season was horrible. So sad.
I’m going to say Good Girls. The plot was interesting. Acting was good, I love Retta and Christina Hendricks. It just got ridiculous and no way in real life would these ladies get away with what they did.
Great show until the last season and it ended so STUPID and annoying.
Billions.
First two seasons had amazing writing. Then they decided to change up the dynamics and s**t got so stale and boring.
It actually started to pick back up again last season, but then the main actor (and most interesting character) decides to leave the show.
So, yeah. Billions is done, in my opinion.
La casa de papel. Halfway through season 2 el profesor starts doing s**t he couldn't possible foresee. But according to the series he did, so that is where I decided to stop watching.
Promised Neverland 😭 Season one was SO good. Why’d they do that to us all.
mmitchell9:
No one can convince me s2 happened. It was just a nightmare.
Designated Survivor. The original version had a great premise but I think it was too trapped by the constraints of cable TV formatting. Ended up being more of a soap opera that went nowhere and said little.
The Korean version
is much better, because a) it had to finish the story in 16 episodes (per K-drama format, and because an interim president is constitutionally required to hold new elections within 60 days) so it's more succinct, and b) the stakes felt real since South Korea's military dictatorship is still in recent memory and there's North Korea over the horizon. I'd recommend the Korean version instead.
The first couple seasons were great, but it just got boring after.
The Morning Show
First season isn't perfect but its poignant premise and killer performances by Jennifer Aniston and Billy Crudup really worked in its favor.
However the recent second season flew off the rails with too many subplots about too many hot button issues spread across too many characters. It was aimless and inconsistent and while I would imagine Apple will pick it up for a third season (what else do they have going on?) there would need to be some serious changes.
I disagree, I love The Morning Show and think it's still great writing and acting.
Kinda obscure, but Reaper.
First episode was amazing, by the mid-point of the 1st season, I checked out...not sure how many seasons it had, but it was such a good premise, and just ....fail.
Sword Art Online. It was a great premise, and started what looked like it was going to be a wild story arc where the MC made himself out to be a bad guy to keep the other players from infighting.
Then it abandoned that arc for no reason, and the people trapped in a crazy fantasy world settled down to raise a kid in a log cabin somewhere, and the writers abandoned all semblance of plot AND believability.
I never understood it's popularity, it was utterly boring and I gave up after few episodes.
Smallville.
The first few seasons are pretty good, but they lose both Lana and Lex after S6. Tess and Green Arrow were garbage, and then there was that whole sex slave cult with Allison Mack. I can't watch it ever again now that's stuck in my head.
As soon as Lex left it went downhill. Also, what was the obsession with bringing every villain Superman ever faced to be pre-Superman Clark? Why? Stupid.
The League. The last two seasons became pure product placement for daily fantasy football sites.
I'm still trying to watch that final season just to complete the show but I never get around to it.
Marcella. It was great, but the season finales left more questions than answers and some parts of the plot were never mentioned again and forgotten. Way too many loose ends for my taste.
Is anyone still raging over the untimely demise of the Stargate franchise due to the cra.p shoot of utter mediocrity of Stargate Universe? I mean besides me.
Bored Panda. Used to have interesting articles now it's the same recycled c**p with ads.
Did anyone here see Chuck (with Zachary Levi)?. It was one of the most entertaining TV shows I've ever seen but like a couple of these, the ending was terrible.
No one mentioned Lucifer? I know it was trite, but it was *fun* and trite. Until it went completely sideways when the transition from CW to Netflix happened. Then it was awful.
So basically most of these shows should have just bowed out on a good high and not keep going. Money ruins everything.
Everything loses it's flair after two or three seasons. Maybe they should have a clear idea of the end and not try to stretch the plot beyond that point.
Mythbusters was never the same after that damned cannonball through a residential neighborhood made the insurers too nervous. Ditching the interns? Really? Their goofiness was half the fun. Sorry, that's as modern as I get.
I don't mean to sound hipster; I'll plainly admit to watching tons of YouTube, etc. But man, I had no idea how long I'd been away from mainstream TV I never heard of just about ANY of these shows. Any old farts wanna talk about MASH, or All in the Family/Archie Bunker's Place, or The Cosb--- whoops, nevermind, or Cheers or Family Ties? So how about that ending to Seinfeld, huh?
I'm going to add Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It went downhill after Will got shot.
I'm sorry but Grey's Anatomy is a masterpiece and that is the hill I will die on 😂
Showing my age here...I loved Blake's 7 series 1, 2 and 3. Series 4 ... NO!!! And also Andromeda... that was pretty good until they killed Tyr off and it became the Kevin Sorbo Show in all but name.
Battlestar Galactica. The Cylons may have had a plan, but the writers sure didn't.
No mention of Shameless? Now this show had a good 7 season run before it jumped the shark. The turning point for me was Fiona's wedding. After Frank shat all over it, the other characters collectively decided to throw him off a bridge into Lake Michigan (in other words, attempt to murder him), at the end of season 7. And from the start of the following season, the characters were all doing things that either made no sense or were out of character for them, in order to advance the story. And the worst moment of the show was when Debbie shackled that ex-bf of Fiona's to a billboard and fired paintballs at his naked a*s. I mean yes, the guy was a jerk for lying to Fiona, but that's just not how sane people handle breakups.
i love sailor moon but last season when they reboot the universe was a bit too over the top
A slightly older show that never had a huge audience, but whose decline annoyed me greatly: Earth Final Conflict. The first season was great. The second season was good. The third was okay. The fourth was bad. And the fifth was absolutely horrible. I stopped watching halfway through the fifth season, then tuned back in just for the finale—and wish I hadn't. It's the worst series finale I've ever seen.
Good omens, season one was brilliant and the two main characters were so loveable but season two was c**p and somehow made them not likeable at all
I don't watch TV, just google smth up and watch it online. The scariest thing is that I heard of almost all the shows on the list and watched about 70%, and liked about a half of watched ones (during commuting to work (2-3hrs a day), on my phone, using headphones)
I can think of another thing that had promise but turned into garbage...
I miss "The Last Ship" on the list - The first 4 seasons are great, but the 5th feels like a taped on fan fiction without originallity. If you watch it, stop after season 4 / Or Navy CIS - the show got bad when Pauley Perrete left, went worse after Cote de Pablo was gone, hit bed rock after Michael Weatherly also left and became absolute garbage with Mark Harmon leaving. Nowadays it's a drama series focused on bland new characters and not about solving crimes with some twists and turns like in the beginning
I came here to make sure someone mentioned "Search Party". That show had a great start, then went OFF THE F-ING RAILS. I can't even describe it. I couldn't stand watching it anymore. It's like the creators were on acid, truly.
The fact that The Office isn't on here both makes me happy because it's just a spectacular show, but also it did kinda fall off for sure after Steve left.
"The Expanse" - so amazing the first three seasons. I will watch it again from the beginning just for them, but I stopped watching season 5 because it wasn't as interesting, and I learned season 6 was being released weekly at the time (I like to watch a series straight through and not wait a week).
I've heard of some of these, but I've never seen any, except bits of Walking Dead.
I'm totally missing Supernatural here. It was so good but the last couple of seasons just got worse and worse
Not really a seasons thing, but Leverage is one of my favorite shows ever, and Leverage: Redemption did not live up to the original show. At least one of the original showrunners is coming back for Redemption season 3, which will be fun to see. (And I want more Hardison screen time grr [but it's awesome that the reason he's not there is because Alis Hodge is getting bigger roles])
I hate to say it because the first few seasons were so good, but Kim's Convenience. It started to decline when they sidelined Simu Liu's character to video calls instead of personal appearances and basically abandoned his whole arc with the dad. It didn't get much better from there. It felt predictable and like they were running out of ideas, with no real character development or plot progression. We got tired of watching it.
Is anyone still raging over the untimely demise of the Stargate franchise due to the cra.p shoot of utter mediocrity of Stargate Universe? I mean besides me.
Bored Panda. Used to have interesting articles now it's the same recycled c**p with ads.
Did anyone here see Chuck (with Zachary Levi)?. It was one of the most entertaining TV shows I've ever seen but like a couple of these, the ending was terrible.
No one mentioned Lucifer? I know it was trite, but it was *fun* and trite. Until it went completely sideways when the transition from CW to Netflix happened. Then it was awful.
So basically most of these shows should have just bowed out on a good high and not keep going. Money ruins everything.
Everything loses it's flair after two or three seasons. Maybe they should have a clear idea of the end and not try to stretch the plot beyond that point.
Mythbusters was never the same after that damned cannonball through a residential neighborhood made the insurers too nervous. Ditching the interns? Really? Their goofiness was half the fun. Sorry, that's as modern as I get.
I don't mean to sound hipster; I'll plainly admit to watching tons of YouTube, etc. But man, I had no idea how long I'd been away from mainstream TV I never heard of just about ANY of these shows. Any old farts wanna talk about MASH, or All in the Family/Archie Bunker's Place, or The Cosb--- whoops, nevermind, or Cheers or Family Ties? So how about that ending to Seinfeld, huh?
I'm going to add Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It went downhill after Will got shot.
I'm sorry but Grey's Anatomy is a masterpiece and that is the hill I will die on 😂
Showing my age here...I loved Blake's 7 series 1, 2 and 3. Series 4 ... NO!!! And also Andromeda... that was pretty good until they killed Tyr off and it became the Kevin Sorbo Show in all but name.
Battlestar Galactica. The Cylons may have had a plan, but the writers sure didn't.
No mention of Shameless? Now this show had a good 7 season run before it jumped the shark. The turning point for me was Fiona's wedding. After Frank shat all over it, the other characters collectively decided to throw him off a bridge into Lake Michigan (in other words, attempt to murder him), at the end of season 7. And from the start of the following season, the characters were all doing things that either made no sense or were out of character for them, in order to advance the story. And the worst moment of the show was when Debbie shackled that ex-bf of Fiona's to a billboard and fired paintballs at his naked a*s. I mean yes, the guy was a jerk for lying to Fiona, but that's just not how sane people handle breakups.
i love sailor moon but last season when they reboot the universe was a bit too over the top
A slightly older show that never had a huge audience, but whose decline annoyed me greatly: Earth Final Conflict. The first season was great. The second season was good. The third was okay. The fourth was bad. And the fifth was absolutely horrible. I stopped watching halfway through the fifth season, then tuned back in just for the finale—and wish I hadn't. It's the worst series finale I've ever seen.
Good omens, season one was brilliant and the two main characters were so loveable but season two was c**p and somehow made them not likeable at all
I don't watch TV, just google smth up and watch it online. The scariest thing is that I heard of almost all the shows on the list and watched about 70%, and liked about a half of watched ones (during commuting to work (2-3hrs a day), on my phone, using headphones)
I can think of another thing that had promise but turned into garbage...
I miss "The Last Ship" on the list - The first 4 seasons are great, but the 5th feels like a taped on fan fiction without originallity. If you watch it, stop after season 4 / Or Navy CIS - the show got bad when Pauley Perrete left, went worse after Cote de Pablo was gone, hit bed rock after Michael Weatherly also left and became absolute garbage with Mark Harmon leaving. Nowadays it's a drama series focused on bland new characters and not about solving crimes with some twists and turns like in the beginning
I came here to make sure someone mentioned "Search Party". That show had a great start, then went OFF THE F-ING RAILS. I can't even describe it. I couldn't stand watching it anymore. It's like the creators were on acid, truly.
The fact that The Office isn't on here both makes me happy because it's just a spectacular show, but also it did kinda fall off for sure after Steve left.
"The Expanse" - so amazing the first three seasons. I will watch it again from the beginning just for them, but I stopped watching season 5 because it wasn't as interesting, and I learned season 6 was being released weekly at the time (I like to watch a series straight through and not wait a week).
I've heard of some of these, but I've never seen any, except bits of Walking Dead.
I'm totally missing Supernatural here. It was so good but the last couple of seasons just got worse and worse
Not really a seasons thing, but Leverage is one of my favorite shows ever, and Leverage: Redemption did not live up to the original show. At least one of the original showrunners is coming back for Redemption season 3, which will be fun to see. (And I want more Hardison screen time grr [but it's awesome that the reason he's not there is because Alis Hodge is getting bigger roles])
I hate to say it because the first few seasons were so good, but Kim's Convenience. It started to decline when they sidelined Simu Liu's character to video calls instead of personal appearances and basically abandoned his whole arc with the dad. It didn't get much better from there. It felt predictable and like they were running out of ideas, with no real character development or plot progression. We got tired of watching it.
