Person Asks “What TV Show Was Amazing At First But Became Unwatchable For You Later On?”, And 30 Folks Deliver
It is astonishing how fast random opinions on the internet can ruin a person’s outlook on a given product of media entertainment.
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First few seasons were great with pretty good pacing. Later seasons devolve into telling one story at a time. They’d have a cliffhanger of a character maybe dying and do 3 weeks of other stories. By the time it gets back to the cliffhanger you have no idea what’s happening. That and it got repetitive.
I was enamored with it for the first 5 seasons. 6 only reinforced my love but I remember some cracks starting to show.
7 went downhill super fast and I refused to sully my memories with 8.
I always find this equally funny, depressing and annoying. GRR martin gave the show runners a roadmap for how the book series was going to end up. This was it. So many people are upset over the fact that the "mother of dragons" who somehow became a feminist icon, despite the many, constant hints over the fact that like the rest of her family, was INSANE. Her ending was obvious. From the point where her brother was given the golden crown and she basically shrugged. The last seasons had their flaws, but people are just pissed that they invested so much into the dragon queen without really paying attention to the very loud subtext
Grey's Anatomy 100%. The show was great, but I just can't keep up with all the twists and turns and freaky accidents anymore. It's also a lot less funny. It should have ended seasons ago.
bog--wizard said:
Once Upon a Time. The first 3 seasons were good! And then after that they just kept getting worse.
RittleMeThis27 replied:
I watched about that much til it got boring and too weird. I enjoyed them giving Disney characters a twist separate from their movie counterparts. Then something about seeing Elsa basically cosplaying the animated movie made me stop. It was more fun when they left us guessing who the new person was and not throwing it in our faces like that.
season8branisusless said:
Firefly. Second season is literally unwatchable.
Shawn_1512 replied:
Me and Abed have an agreement. If one of us dies, we stage it to look like a suicide caused by the unjust cancellation of Firefly.
Season 1 was great and fresh. Season 2 didn't know what to do with itself and just started giving everyone super powers.
By Season 3, characters were just changing motivations at the drop of a hat and it was just a huge mess of bad writing.
Pm_Me_All_The_Feet said:
Westworld, on HBO. Season 1 was amazing! By episode 3 of season 2 I was done. Damn shame...
ejpierle replied
This. Season 1 was a damn near perfect 1 season story. If they had had any balls at all, they would've stopped there and gone down in history as one of the best single seasons of all time. But some assholes at HBO backed the money truck up, and we all know how that ended...
I’ve stuck with it, but yes totally agree! Season 1 was intriguing, mind bending and quite beautiful. Subsequent seasons just don’t have the magic…don’t have Sir Anthony Hopkins either coincidence?
Not the worst offender, but That 70's Show tanked pretty hard once Eric left. He was sorely needed to make the chemistry of the group work.
Spider-Gwen_ said:
The 100.
agawl81 replied:
You are onecrew or you are an enemy of oncrew - choose.
It has some really quotable stuff, but my god, the endless self sabotage by the main character just gets so old.
Great show that lasted exactly 5 seasons. Rumors of a 6th or 7th season are lies.
fefvrisketa said:
Misfits, unfortunately.
doctor_x replied:
"Let's replace the entire cast with less interesting characters and have them never use their abilities. Lunch?"
HoraceSense said:
House of Cards.
usernameunavaliable replied:
The first two seasons were amazing. After that it started to get progressively worse.
IMO, it should have been 2 seasons of him reaching the presidency, and then 2 seasons of everything going downhill.
4 seasons total, 1 for each suit of cards. 2 for building the house of cards, 2 for making it fall apart.
Try the UK original. 3 seasons. 4 episodes per. House of Cards. To Play the King. The Final Cut. Ian Richardson's Francis Urquhart.... Superb.
nolaonmymind said:
I tried to rewatch it recently, remembered the last season, and just didn't want to.
Techerous replied:
What's especially frustrating is if they had ended the show after 4 seasons like the creators wanted to the ending everyone hated actually would have made sense because they wouldn't have proven 4-5 times that Robin and Ted don't work together.
How to Get Away with Murder. The first season had some intrigue and plot... and then they just start murdering people left and right after that.
monoloco-plus said:
Riverdale.
VeryDPP replied:
I'm not convinced the guy who writes Riverdale has ever spoken to a real teenager.
I stick this one out purely for the hilarity of it. Archie and the gang have super powers now and are fighting an evil wizard (I am not making that up).
MiZe97 said:
It's what happens when you try to make so many seasons for a show meant for only a few.
Stewba replied:
Arrows first season is dope when he is murdering everyone. I wish he never discovered the power of friendship.
DiegoDynomite said:
The Flash on CW.
Somerandom1922 replied:
Flash and Arrow both got screwed by Netflix DareDevil showing how good it could be imo.
I was into both Arrow and Flash, then Daredevil came out and I just kept noticing inconsistencies and budget issues.
But I will say Grant Gustin does make a good Barry Allen.
whiteoff44 said:
Vikings … I’m shocked no one mentioned it yet.
w1987g replied:
I haven't watched anything past Ragnar. I love me Lagertha with all my heart, but I could see the writing on the wall knowing that boneless was going to go full psycho.
Also, I'm still pissed Siggy died like she did. ASLAUG CAN ROT IN HEL!
As soon as Ragnar will killed off, I turned off. His sons (except Bjorn) were nut cases
At first it was a fresh setting for a procedural with likeable, developed characters. But then Brennan got Flanderized hard starting around S4 and it was never the same.
I was crushed when they killed Sweets off. Actually felt sorry for Daisy's character
So many loopholes and a never ending plot. I mean, the female hero (forgot her name) was wanted and had her pictures broadcast nationwide live, but a couple of weeks after she can do undercover work.
I think you just randomly selected some long running series that you have never even seen. The Loopholes are the whole reason behind this programme, wondering who Raymond Reddington really is and his relation to Elizabeth ( the name you forgot) Keen. If you had seen the series you would know why she was exonerated
By the end of filming the two main leads hated each other… and you can tell! They had to come up with whacky storyline’s to keep them apart.
The first seasons are so good and then it basically turns into "what weird monster can we come up with in between killing off and resurrecting the Winchester boys and all their friends/family?"
Like I tapped out with the episode involving Tinkerbelle. I did watch the series finale and it sure was a finale.
I feel the opposite; slow starter then it gets "Awesome".
I loved the whole lot of them, the probing aliens, the B***h..Jerk! come backs. The banter back and forth really made it for me, I loved Crowley and his mother Rowena, hated Mary Winchester and swooned over Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the dad, the whole homage to walking dead thing ...
One thing I appreciate about the last season is that Jensen Ackles (Dean) and Misha Collins were clearly playing it like they were in love; Misha said afterwards that the scene where he confesses his love for Dean and then dies was the most the network would let them do. And he really brought his a-game for that scene.
Yea he did!!! Had me ugly crying all over the place.
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I LOVED Supernatural. Gets off to a slow start and then just takes off. Last few seasons got a bit repetitive but I watched it until the very end . It has a great payoff, IMHO. A major character says, right from the start, "I know how my story ends .." and 15 years later, that is exactly what happens . COVID kept the finale from having the truly epic finale it had planned but it still worked. I will always love this show.
The original story arc ended with season 5. They got a new show runner and just went crazy.
I loved it. It breaks my heart that they kept it running for so long. There were soooo many places they could have ended it and just elegantly slipped out and let go of the story. But they had to drag the poor dead horse allllll over and ... Nope. I liked the first 5 seasons and I liked quite a few after that, too. I wanted to murder Castiel on a weekly basis after s6 or 7 and when they got to the Antichrist, I just quit. But unlike with many other shows, I'm still mourning the death of some secondary characters. Charlie. Ellen, Bobby, even Jo. They created great characters and then all killed them, but the one they should have murdered stayed?? Still pissed. That said - it was a big part of my life and I met one of my best friends just through that show. Can't ever be mad at it.
I agree, it was most fun for me with just two brothers fighting supernatural stuff around the country, without then meeting demons and angels and dying and being resurrected multiple times, then meeting god or something x.x
Always preferred the freak of the week. Dean's resurrection was good, got a bit too repetitive after that, and I struggled so hard with the Leviathans. Also screw you for killing off Uncle Bobby.
I loved the angle of Dean's resurrection - but they had to top it off with Sam being resurrected, too, and then having spent even longer in Hell and having it worse. No trauma is the same, obviously, but that just soured it for me. Why not go with the "severely traumatized and not dealing with it at all in a healthy way"-Dean and a "caring but not quite knowing what to do because your brother is a stubborn donkey"-Sam? And then go one or two more seasons and just let it go? *sigh* that said - I liked the Leviathans. That bib? Hilarious!
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Loved it all the way, if you left before the Scooby Doo episode then go watch it now, you're missing out on some real TV gold. Also - Tinkerbelle was BadAss!
I stopped watching after season 5. It had a well-written arc and a near-perfect ending. I felt that I didn't need more.
I left off at dean getting hijacked by Michael. Maybe one day I'll finish it. Jensen Ackles is love.
It had 5 brilliant seasons. A few medicore ones but overall it was AWESOME!
The fitst 5 seasons are awesome. They were Kripke’s story arc complete. Then the rest were just desperate attempts to keep a great show on the air. But the fairies episode in season 6 was a gem!
Superfan of Supernatural here, from the first. Yeah, after about Season 7 I had lots of "WTF?" moments but I hung in there til the end. And every season had its little gems. Finale sucked a*s IMHO.
I find it amazing that after so many seasons these writers are still producing stuff that is watchable. I liked the mid seasons best but its still pretty good.
with every time i rewatch SPN, i realise how bad of an actor most people people are and even that ends my love for the show a bit more. but after [SPOILER] mary comes back (worst decision ever) i lost interest and it went downhill. didnt watch the last season/ episodes
After the orginally intended run, it did take a while to find it's way again, and it wasn't ever better than that but it was still enjoyable.
I've always wanted to watch this show because it just seems like it's right up my alley. I loved Buffy and I like shows that build and have a rich backstory. It also has a good number of seasons and eps to marathon. I'm not sure if I can explain this right, but I feel like a fandom elder; I've watched shows like this for so long I can go ahead and skip the first few seasons and get to the good part. Like if I were to start watching Buffy from episode 1 right now, I'd never get to episode 2. But I love the show overall and I'm so glad I got into it because it was great but it needed time to get there and back then I had the patience but now... I just want to skip through. Netflix and shorter seasons have spoiled me.
Loved the beginning, middle and end fabulous show, but it was time to leave the Winchesters
After Armageddon, I was like, what the hell else can they possibly do? It pissed my wife off that I stopped watching it because she kept going.
Still watch it occasionally; although, I like the early episodes better.
I have never been proud to use tumblr, I am ashamed (and I should be) of a lot of content on that site, and I stopped watching supernatural about halfway through, but being on tumblr during super hell night.... (supernatural series finale) was one of the best experiences of my entire life. Couple it with it was also election night and Putin announced he might be stepping down... amazing
Somehow I managed 8 seasons. The stuff with ending every season with one of the main characters dead/possessed/in hell/in purgatory or whatever does not work with only TWO main characters! You KNOW that it will take 3 episodes at most for them to be back to their old selves. Also, they killed Bobby and Ellen off, some of the best characters. And no, bringing Bobby back as a ghost or whatever does not count.
I liked it all the way up to Season 11. It wasn't bad...it just didn't grip me as much as before. Maybe I'll give it another go....and no this is not my excuse to watch it all again...maybe...yes.
Hahaha all the butthurt SPN fans dowvoting me. You guys....if you truly loved the show you'd have wanted it to end while it was still GOOD not drag it out past it's expiration date the way it was. All because you couldn't bear to let the characters go or you felt like Jensen and Jared were your personal saviors or something. Ridiculous.
really? how so? actually curious - I haven't watched in a long time but did he really turn into a douche?
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ClockNo4364 said:
I actually think that Glee was like a fun guilty pleasure show when it first came out.
Then after like 4-6 episodes there was a writers' strike and when it finally came back it just got worse and worse until it was unwatchable.
cdenton041793 replied:
The first couple seasons were really campy and fun, and I loved that. But eventually it felt like they got to a place where they were taking themselves way too seriously, and it just wasn't working anymore. I have not watched the last season, I got like halfway through the first episode and noped out. The season or 2 before that wasn't very good either, but I really tried, because I had loved it for so long.
Once Fonzie jumped the shark, while water skiing and wearing his jacket, the show just got progressively worse.
PS, I know.
toolfanatic said:
Breaking Bad. It was great for the first several full rewatches, unwatchable after I lost my phone and my computer and TV broke.
SassySSS replied:
Hahaha you got me. I was fully ready to be like WHAT Breaking bad is the antithesis of a show that goes off the rails. Just so happen to be deep into a rewatch now after several years and I literally can’t stop saying how more shows need to be like this, the story is so tight and focused. No sprawling casts of new characters or Flanderization of existing characters. The storytelling is so well done, just remarkable television.
UgliestDisability said:
The Office limped to the finish line.
The_Sound_of_Slants replied:
It was not unwatchable for me, but you can definitely tell the writers lost their direction after Steve left. Characters started acting... well... out of character. The new characters were pretty weird. Story lines were getting stretched thin.
I am glad they did not straight up cancel the show after Steve left. I would have been mad if I did not see how some of the characters' lives progressed.
But watching the last few seasons you can definitely tell they knew the show could not go on without Steve. They were just using the time to figure out how to wrap it all up nicely. And maybe throw a few cameos along the way.
Doctor Who is getting to be that way. And I know, there's all the hate for the Chibnall era on Doctor Who, and some of that's valid--but that's not what I'm getting at. It's just not much fun anymore. When it starts feeling like a chore to watch it, it's probably time to let it go. And I have to say, this bothers me...Doctor Who was a huge part of my childhood and really my whole life, ever since the mid-80s. It sucks to have it feel this way now.
It was really cool. Then later on... Jesus Christ, the protagonist is a Mary Sue, everyone always listens to her, you can always guarantee none of her friends will die and you can always feel like the trouble she gets herself and her friends into aren't threatening. What a waste
For some reason people think I'm talking about the sitcom. Why? I'm talking about the god awful Netflix adaption. The first season was insanely fun. Everything after just felt like the most below bare minimum awful writing I have ever seen in any show.
It was actually pretty good to me then something happened and I got tried of watching it because I thought it was gonna end stupid
Was a fun watch at the start, but it just devolved into fake, staged tripe. Not sure it was ever real tbf, but at least at the start it was somewhat believable.
I hope this isn't too unpopular, but the last 2 seasons of Arrested Development were absolutely painful to sit through. The story just got unnecessarily convoluted and was just boring.
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Any show from the US if it is a hit they will keep making more and more seasons. Squid game made by Americans would have nine seasons and full of love triangles with s*x escenes every 15 minutes lol
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UK productions treat them as stories to be well-told. US treat them like cows to be well-milked.
Big bang theory. It sank as soon as it just became about their relationship drama's.
Yet after the show ended I still watch it every time it airs on live tv. My family loves that show
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I love the X-files but only seasons 1-7 (and that’s being generous). Everything after that is just a completely different show.
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Another one that was just the law of diminishing returns. Just know when to bow out.
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They forgot The OA. First season was the best show ever, second season was just weird and nonsense.
yeah but that twist at the end...I really wanted to see how that played out.
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For me it was American horror story. I loved the first two seasons and cult, the others I had no taste for.
The initial concepts were intriguing, like using real events and people. When it became about 80s slasher/horror movies is when I lost interest.
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The problem with a lot of these shows is they should have ended sooner. There's a certain point when writers start running out of ideas or the characters have fulfilled what they set out to do. When this happens a good idea is to write a series finale and have the loose ends tied up. Unfortunately producers and Networkers see how popular a show is and get greedy and demand for more episodes. Many times when this happens the writers and actor get fed up and want to move on this also leads to the decline of a show.
Yes Kusotare Lost for sure. People need to stop blowing JJ Abrams. He’s destroyed more than he’s enhanced. Also how are we missing Scandal (the latter half of the last season was just sort of meh and I get the sense of accomplishment and breaking barriers and all, but making her ultimately president some day was totally wedged in). 24 (the stakes were so meh and formulaic. We saw the “a bomb is going to explode in XXX in 1960’s Batman). Nip/Tuck (when you start getting over the top for an over the top show you’ve gone to a point of no return). Also I’m glad season 4 of Stranger Things finally got its shiit together. Nothing will ever be season 1, but 2 was a huge letdown, 3 was like “well it looks like they are at least trying now” and 4 got us back on course. Although the very end was kinda anti-climactic and just a justification of 5. PS- if you don’t at least recognize that Eddie’s Master of Puppets was ultimately the best metal music video you’ve ever seen you can NOT come to my birthday party!
Eddie! Such a great character. But yeah, first season was gold, don't know much about why 2 was a letdown - I din't really get into 3rd season, but I love Steve and Robin so that was helpful and now I'm sitting on hot coals for the 5th (hopefully the last because please don't ride this out till the horse is dead!)
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I can't believe Law and Order SVU isn't on this list. And Survivor. Two other shows that need to call it quits.
Totally agree on Law and Order SVU. I don't understand why some great shows get cancelled in a year or two but this thing just keeps going on and on and on.
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Show as have always come to a point where they “jump the shark”, a term that, coincidentally started with Happy Days toward the end of its run. It basically means they were on too long and the creativity is wearing thin. There’s usually a point where they logically should’ve ended, but “the suits” decided—-greedily and stupidly—-to try and stretch its profits another season, sometimes two.
Preacher and The Good Place. Both series had a great first season, then everything went wrong and it became borring and like a neverending story
Smallville, got slow around season7-9 loved seeing zod but just went nutso. 10 phoned it in.
Lucifer. That's what's missing from this list. That show started out pretty good, and they just over complicated it to the point where it was unbearable to watch.
I'm watching that now, I really don't agree. I think it dips around the middle and gets a lot better towards the end. It's not a great show but it's middle section is it's weakest.
Load More Replies... Basically- every American sitcom where the desire to milk money out of it outstrips any other concern. Until recently UK tv, on the BBC at least, wasn't afflicted with that particular problem, but it's definitely getting worse. Think of the great UK tv shows and it''s amazing to reflect now on how few episodes there actually are of them. Fawlty Towers- 12. The Office- 14. Yes, Minister- 37 (and that was spread across 8 years!!)
So much of what "we" watch has a damned "laugh track". If it didn't Teach us when to laugh and tell us what was supposed to be funny, most wouldn't last 4 episodes.
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I loved Modern Family, I could have done with another season although I think certain characters did not work anymore.
Load More Replies... The Good Doctor. I think the first two seasons were great, then all of a sudden the character was not growing into his job, but the job kept growing. I know that in reality, there are probably autistic doctors but the are not front line, touchy-feely, but behind-the-scenes researchers because emotion is hard. How many lawsuits could the hospital handle, when compassion was not a person's front line?
Where's Sherlock BBC? that's the worst downfall and disappointment I've EVER experienced :|||
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It was watchable (barely) up until the whole Inhumans arc.
I grew up reading Hiro Mashima's manga Rave Master, so it was pretty natural for me to watch both Fairy Tail and Eden's Zero. Haven't finished FT, due to the series being rather long, and not due to disliking the series. I gave up on Eden's Zero before season 1 was finished (around episode 15 out of 25). The show felt way too predictable, had one note characters, and aside from the Sci-Fi setting instead of fantasy, was way too similar to Fairy Tail (not only in terms of character designs, but also their personalities).
Pretty little liars should have either stuck exactly to the stories from the book or just ended with Mona being A. It would have made sense. She was on of the ones Alison bullied
- Lost: so many loose ends. It's like the writers were lost... - Prison Break: season 1 is great, season 2 is okay and then it should have stopped. - Gossip Girl: hated the final season. Horrible ending that ignored the growth of the characters - Dexter: season 6 and 8 are especially horrible, Debra in love with her brother and going crazy. But I did like Dexter: New Blood.
Well out of 30 i only have seen even one episode of like 5 - and happy days, well, my parents watched, we had one tv, there were only 5 channels and i was like 8 - so really 4. Oh and SNL and the Simpsons both unwatchable for about 20 years now.
Outlander. After the first few seasons (and I was TOTALLY hooked) it just became "what horrible thing will happen this week?". It got tedious and I got bored.
I loved the movie The Time Traveler's Wife and was excited about the series. Wa wa waa. There were too tooo many of the traveler around, running into himself coming from different times, no. But what ruined it for me was in episode maybe 3,idk, anyway his dad caught him in his room getting a blowie FROM HIMSELF! One of the time traveler versions of himself decided,"Hey,lets do this" to themselves ! It just rubbed me the wrong way, no pun intended
Naked and Afraid XL: the first few seasons were really interesting and entertaining. The season which just ended seemed to drag on. Nothing really interesting happened in the last two 4-hour episodes.
Every TV show that suddenly felt a need to go full woke and try to normalize same-sex and bisexual relationships. I know they exist but they are in the minority yet these shows try to make them equal if not the majority. If you want to make a TV show that specifically leans that way, go for it, just don't change an existing one. I fully expect I will be massively downvoted over this so all I ask is that everyone that agrees with me, please upvote me to counter it and add your own replies. Do NOT just stay neutral and enable the woke...
same-sex relationships and the like are not in the minority, you're just not aware of those people around you. LGBTQ people exist and have a right to see themselves represented on tv just like everyone else.
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Pushing Daisies. That was such a tragedy of wasted talent and ambition. Damn near killed television for me. Could not start watching ambition that would never be fulfilled.
I'll say it: Star Trek (DISCO all downhill from ep 1) and Star Wars (after Disney bought it and threw out Lucas' plans) :(
Modern Family. It changed when they went to the dude ranch. So painful to watch with all the innuendo that felt like they were scrambling for something clever. Yawn
La casa de papel, every Spanish show or movie shows a lot of the same thing. Rac**m people wanting f**k with the hot gal. And a lot of plot holes
I'd add "The Handmaid Tale" to this list. Once the Supreme court got involved and Gilead became too real I wanted to turn off the TV. Then I realized I couldn't.
I seems almost every show I ever watched got old very fast, most of them by the end of the first season (do they bring in new, untalented writers for the second and subsequent seasons?). But there was one, a decade ago, that never did get old and that was Lillehammer.
Most of these shows I never watched anyway and have no interest. I was thinking of trying Supernatural but maybe now I won’t bother.
Oh no, try it! Yes, it's a bit... manly in the beginning. But it gets so good! At least give it 4 seasons.... maybe 5. But at least four.
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I liked two broke girls at first. It gets a little boring later on in the show but I still will watch every episode when it comes on TV because all of the characters crack me up. As an. Ex amateur actress I would love to work on a show like that I imagine it would be fun.
The sexual innuendo was funny at first, then that's all that remained. Mindless sexual innuendo. They got stuck.
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Sleepy Hollow. First 3 seasons where awesome, then fell apart when they killed off Abbie Mills
The answer is: all shows whose producers wait until the ratings drop drastically before ending them. It's a common formula for a lot of American shows, and it means that by definition they have to get really bad at one point.
I remember I enjoyed the first seasons of Suits, until they broke the cast into couples and turned a legal drama into a matrimonial one.
That's right. Suits. They lost the magic once the story became less about the amazing duo (harvey and mike)
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Animal Kingdom. After Smurf died, in the present, and it was all this going back young Janine, I had no use for it anymore.
Any show from the US if it is a hit they will keep making more and more seasons. Squid game made by Americans would have nine seasons and full of love triangles with s*x escenes every 15 minutes lol
Load More Replies... UK productions treat them as stories to be well-told. US treat them like cows to be well-milked.
Big bang theory. It sank as soon as it just became about their relationship drama's.
Yet after the show ended I still watch it every time it airs on live tv. My family loves that show
Load More Replies... I love the X-files but only seasons 1-7 (and that’s being generous). Everything after that is just a completely different show.
Load More Replies... Another one that was just the law of diminishing returns. Just know when to bow out.
Load More Replies... They forgot The OA. First season was the best show ever, second season was just weird and nonsense.
yeah but that twist at the end...I really wanted to see how that played out.
Load More Replies... For me it was American horror story. I loved the first two seasons and cult, the others I had no taste for.
The initial concepts were intriguing, like using real events and people. When it became about 80s slasher/horror movies is when I lost interest.
Load More Replies... The problem with a lot of these shows is they should have ended sooner. There's a certain point when writers start running out of ideas or the characters have fulfilled what they set out to do. When this happens a good idea is to write a series finale and have the loose ends tied up. Unfortunately producers and Networkers see how popular a show is and get greedy and demand for more episodes. Many times when this happens the writers and actor get fed up and want to move on this also leads to the decline of a show.
Yes Kusotare Lost for sure. People need to stop blowing JJ Abrams. He’s destroyed more than he’s enhanced. Also how are we missing Scandal (the latter half of the last season was just sort of meh and I get the sense of accomplishment and breaking barriers and all, but making her ultimately president some day was totally wedged in). 24 (the stakes were so meh and formulaic. We saw the “a bomb is going to explode in XXX in 1960’s Batman). Nip/Tuck (when you start getting over the top for an over the top show you’ve gone to a point of no return). Also I’m glad season 4 of Stranger Things finally got its shiit together. Nothing will ever be season 1, but 2 was a huge letdown, 3 was like “well it looks like they are at least trying now” and 4 got us back on course. Although the very end was kinda anti-climactic and just a justification of 5. PS- if you don’t at least recognize that Eddie’s Master of Puppets was ultimately the best metal music video you’ve ever seen you can NOT come to my birthday party!
Eddie! Such a great character. But yeah, first season was gold, don't know much about why 2 was a letdown - I din't really get into 3rd season, but I love Steve and Robin so that was helpful and now I'm sitting on hot coals for the 5th (hopefully the last because please don't ride this out till the horse is dead!)
Load More Replies... I can't believe Law and Order SVU isn't on this list. And Survivor. Two other shows that need to call it quits.
Totally agree on Law and Order SVU. I don't understand why some great shows get cancelled in a year or two but this thing just keeps going on and on and on.
Load More Replies... Show as have always come to a point where they “jump the shark”, a term that, coincidentally started with Happy Days toward the end of its run. It basically means they were on too long and the creativity is wearing thin. There’s usually a point where they logically should’ve ended, but “the suits” decided—-greedily and stupidly—-to try and stretch its profits another season, sometimes two.
Preacher and The Good Place. Both series had a great first season, then everything went wrong and it became borring and like a neverending story
Smallville, got slow around season7-9 loved seeing zod but just went nutso. 10 phoned it in.
Lucifer. That's what's missing from this list. That show started out pretty good, and they just over complicated it to the point where it was unbearable to watch.
I'm watching that now, I really don't agree. I think it dips around the middle and gets a lot better towards the end. It's not a great show but it's middle section is it's weakest.
Load More Replies... Basically- every American sitcom where the desire to milk money out of it outstrips any other concern. Until recently UK tv, on the BBC at least, wasn't afflicted with that particular problem, but it's definitely getting worse. Think of the great UK tv shows and it''s amazing to reflect now on how few episodes there actually are of them. Fawlty Towers- 12. The Office- 14. Yes, Minister- 37 (and that was spread across 8 years!!)
So much of what "we" watch has a damned "laugh track". If it didn't Teach us when to laugh and tell us what was supposed to be funny, most wouldn't last 4 episodes.
Load More Replies... I loved Modern Family, I could have done with another season although I think certain characters did not work anymore.
Load More Replies... The Good Doctor. I think the first two seasons were great, then all of a sudden the character was not growing into his job, but the job kept growing. I know that in reality, there are probably autistic doctors but the are not front line, touchy-feely, but behind-the-scenes researchers because emotion is hard. How many lawsuits could the hospital handle, when compassion was not a person's front line?
Where's Sherlock BBC? that's the worst downfall and disappointment I've EVER experienced :|||
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It was watchable (barely) up until the whole Inhumans arc.
I grew up reading Hiro Mashima's manga Rave Master, so it was pretty natural for me to watch both Fairy Tail and Eden's Zero. Haven't finished FT, due to the series being rather long, and not due to disliking the series. I gave up on Eden's Zero before season 1 was finished (around episode 15 out of 25). The show felt way too predictable, had one note characters, and aside from the Sci-Fi setting instead of fantasy, was way too similar to Fairy Tail (not only in terms of character designs, but also their personalities).
Pretty little liars should have either stuck exactly to the stories from the book or just ended with Mona being A. It would have made sense. She was on of the ones Alison bullied
- Lost: so many loose ends. It's like the writers were lost... - Prison Break: season 1 is great, season 2 is okay and then it should have stopped. - Gossip Girl: hated the final season. Horrible ending that ignored the growth of the characters - Dexter: season 6 and 8 are especially horrible, Debra in love with her brother and going crazy. But I did like Dexter: New Blood.
Well out of 30 i only have seen even one episode of like 5 - and happy days, well, my parents watched, we had one tv, there were only 5 channels and i was like 8 - so really 4. Oh and SNL and the Simpsons both unwatchable for about 20 years now.
Outlander. After the first few seasons (and I was TOTALLY hooked) it just became "what horrible thing will happen this week?". It got tedious and I got bored.
I loved the movie The Time Traveler's Wife and was excited about the series. Wa wa waa. There were too tooo many of the traveler around, running into himself coming from different times, no. But what ruined it for me was in episode maybe 3,idk, anyway his dad caught him in his room getting a blowie FROM HIMSELF! One of the time traveler versions of himself decided,"Hey,lets do this" to themselves ! It just rubbed me the wrong way, no pun intended
Naked and Afraid XL: the first few seasons were really interesting and entertaining. The season which just ended seemed to drag on. Nothing really interesting happened in the last two 4-hour episodes.
Every TV show that suddenly felt a need to go full woke and try to normalize same-sex and bisexual relationships. I know they exist but they are in the minority yet these shows try to make them equal if not the majority. If you want to make a TV show that specifically leans that way, go for it, just don't change an existing one. I fully expect I will be massively downvoted over this so all I ask is that everyone that agrees with me, please upvote me to counter it and add your own replies. Do NOT just stay neutral and enable the woke...
same-sex relationships and the like are not in the minority, you're just not aware of those people around you. LGBTQ people exist and have a right to see themselves represented on tv just like everyone else.
Load More Replies... Pushing Daisies. That was such a tragedy of wasted talent and ambition. Damn near killed television for me. Could not start watching ambition that would never be fulfilled.
I'll say it: Star Trek (DISCO all downhill from ep 1) and Star Wars (after Disney bought it and threw out Lucas' plans) :(
Modern Family. It changed when they went to the dude ranch. So painful to watch with all the innuendo that felt like they were scrambling for something clever. Yawn
La casa de papel, every Spanish show or movie shows a lot of the same thing. Rac**m people wanting f**k with the hot gal. And a lot of plot holes
I'd add "The Handmaid Tale" to this list. Once the Supreme court got involved and Gilead became too real I wanted to turn off the TV. Then I realized I couldn't.
I seems almost every show I ever watched got old very fast, most of them by the end of the first season (do they bring in new, untalented writers for the second and subsequent seasons?). But there was one, a decade ago, that never did get old and that was Lillehammer.
Most of these shows I never watched anyway and have no interest. I was thinking of trying Supernatural but maybe now I won’t bother.
Oh no, try it! Yes, it's a bit... manly in the beginning. But it gets so good! At least give it 4 seasons.... maybe 5. But at least four.
Load More Replies... I liked two broke girls at first. It gets a little boring later on in the show but I still will watch every episode when it comes on TV because all of the characters crack me up. As an. Ex amateur actress I would love to work on a show like that I imagine it would be fun.
The sexual innuendo was funny at first, then that's all that remained. Mindless sexual innuendo. They got stuck.
Load More Replies... Charmed. They should have left it at the sisters faking their death. The add-a-character strategy never works. The addition of Kaley Cuoco and her screen sister was ridiculous.
Sleepy Hollow. First 3 seasons where awesome, then fell apart when they killed off Abbie Mills
The answer is: all shows whose producers wait until the ratings drop drastically before ending them. It's a common formula for a lot of American shows, and it means that by definition they have to get really bad at one point.
I remember I enjoyed the first seasons of Suits, until they broke the cast into couples and turned a legal drama into a matrimonial one.
That's right. Suits. They lost the magic once the story became less about the amazing duo (harvey and mike)
Load More Replies... Animal Kingdom. After Smurf died, in the present, and it was all this going back young Janine, I had no use for it anymore.
