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".
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.
0rbitaI said:
Dexter was great but peaked at the end of season 4. Could not stand the last two seasons
VariationLimp replied:
I wish that the last season had gone like this:
Deborah kills Laguarta and helps Dexter cover it up. Angel finds Laguerta's notes and continues the investigation into the Bay Harbor Butcher in secret, with Dexter eventually being found out. He plans on running, and when he goes to see Deborah one last time, he discovers that she killed herself out of guilt. Dexter then fakes his own death to escape and he lives with the guilt, explaining why Deborah is his dark passenger in New Blood.
Tdawwg78 said:
I watched all the way through because Jodie Comer is brilliant in it but holy s**t the last season was so hard to get through!
girlloss replied:
Oh my father was devastated by the Killing Eve finale lmao I've never had a more in depth discussion of the bury your gays trope with a senior citizen than I did in the immediate aftermath of that finale.
CaoCaramelo said:
I was addicted to this show but it could have ended in season 2.
RandomUsername600 replied:
It became obvious the writers had no plan, had written themselves into a corner, and they started contradicting their own canon.
It started out very much like a modern day West Wing.
But a key plot arc involved one of the key characters deliberately withholding his HIV status from his boyfriend. That's bad enough, but the show went on to vilify the boyfriend for being justifiably angry.
Because f**k consent, am I right?
If you really want your blood to boil, the showrunners had the boyfriend apologize to the key character ***for getting angry about being exposed to HIV without his knowledge or consent*** and we all learned a valuable lesson in ~eRaSiNg ThE sTiGmA~.
It was a goodish show for a minute, first few episodes, then pithy, hokey cardboard characters. The scenes between the President and his wife with sparkly sappy music, blech. Never liked Keifer as an actor, icky icky weird, pompous vibes. Never liked his father either.
I enjoyed most of it, but the FBI/CIA agent Hannah Wells kept getting more and more reckless as time went on. Wasn't surprised at the outcome. And Emily just kept sticking her nose into where it didn't belong. Not a quick study... Just finished watching the final season.
Loved the premise and first couple of seasons, but later it turned into just stupid drama between the characters and less about actual law.
JollieOllieMan said:
Haven’t even finished the season Fiona leaves and I’ve heard it only gets worse.
disisathrowaway replied:
Holy [cow], yes.
While I get that it's supposed to show the cycle of poverty and how hard it is to get out of it, as the seasons went on the characters all became pretty [effin'] unhinged. The writers must've sat down and just decided that every character was going to make the worst decision every single time.
You should watch the original British Version it's a million times better or worse how ever you look at the crazy storylines lol
TenaciousDzNuts said:
Probably Prison Break, after the first season it became immediately dull.
Yoshi3163 replied:
Yeah. After the 3rd season it was too much to watch. I didn’t even bother finishing it. Season 1-3. Both the brothers cant even hold a gun. They cherish life too much that they’re afraid to take one. Season 4. Suddenly they’re john wicking all around panama.
I loved Prison Break, for a time. But then they just kept rehashing the same plot line over and over. If you've seen the first 2 seasons you've seen the entire series.
I have two candidates, hands-down:
1) The Newsroom
First Season was absolutely stellar, exposed all kinds of problems with modern American news programs, and ended its first season on a high note with the promise of much more drama. How the second season managed to both fail so spectacularly and then unravel into a rushed ending remains one of the greatest disappointments even years later.
2) American Gods
The first season was *perfect.* The acting was better than anyone could have guessed, the script was beautiful, and the first season ended right on track to promise a second season with everything that made the first season great. Unfortunately, *somebody* involved in the project disagreed with where it was going, got rid of the showrunners, and many actors followed them out. It never recovered. Moral of the story: don't fix what isn't broken.
I can't stress these two entries emphatically enough.
Falling Skies had cool things every season, but they were definitely running out of quality ideas or writers by Season 4. That finale was a joke also.
I HATED the love triangles.
I really liked the fact that first episode just threw you straight into the action with the alien invasion already ongoing, most of the shows of this kind have kinda slow start, introducing characters and the back story. This was different and caught my interest straight away. I enjoyed it throughout, but I guess they could fit it in 4 seasons.
shak_attacks said:
For one, Pikachu probably would be max LVL (LVL100) at the end of the first season, so why does he still lose battles?
Similar_Vermicelli63 replied
Because Ash has the skill of schoolboy Joey and his Ratata. He’s all about making friends and loving his Pokémon. If the series was about him meticulously inbreeding and hardcore regime EV training; his Pikachu might not get destroyed every other episode. Gary understands the meta.
It just got too up itself & smug & really ended up making not a lot of sense.
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.
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)
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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.
