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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.
But sometimes you don’t need some rando’s thoughts because the show beats them to it by imploding on itself through bad script writing, presentation, acting, or any combination of those three and more.
This inevitably leads to Reddit threads like this one, where folks list TV shows and series that started off very well, becoming instant hits, and then getting progressively worse for a multitude of reasons.
Scroll down to check out the best responses and answers to the now-viral Reddit thread, having over 30,000 upvotes, and why not perform all of the necessary formalities like upvote and comment and then upvote and comment some more.
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#1
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.
#2
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.
#3
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.
Lynn Dougherty Quin 2 years ago
It's gotten way too political. I loved the original group of interns. I hung on until Alex left but after his exit I was pretty much done. The final straw was killing off DeLuca. Plus so sick of Owen's inability to just do the right thing as far as his personal relationships. Also got sick of the Teddy-Koracick-Owen triangle. Koracick deserved better.
Andrew Keane 2 years ago
This needs to be higher. Medical series with characters killed off in freak accidents is the biggest cliche. They pull that c**p far too often and it’s lazy writing.
iseefractals 2 years ago
I watch a lot of TV. I always have something playing in the back round when i'm working, so i go through a lot of series. My mother loved this show, and i resisted giving it a chance until after it had already been on 5 or 6 seasons. The core group of originals was great, they had great chemistry, the story lines were engaging, even when ridiculous. But....then originals started leaving, stories got dumber, and the other :::gag::: shondaland shows seemed to be taking priority, and eventually they all started to become a means of delivering that big condescending, entitled, selfish and grating speech that just makes you want to kick the character in the face. Add to that the fact that at the start of the show, "Meredith" was played by a 34 year old actress, playing a 22 year old character. 18 years later, she's 52 playing 40 and continuing to behave like she's 22 in her personal life while being the greatest most best doctor in the land just like her mother. 8 years past defense.
Rissy cake 2 years ago
I don't know when I stopped, but I feel like they were recycling plots and it just became boring 😭
Michael Sanders 2 years ago
When you are trying to produce a show for almost 20 years now you start throwing shiit up against the wall to see what sticks. And many times they don’t even stick. Soap Operas are obviously campy and melodramatic, but when you get to the point that suddenly some character is an alien you gotta you’ve gone on for too long.
Freloise_Raven 2 years ago
I do think that they might have gone on for too long. I mean how many things can happen to one doctor lol. I still love this show tho. Sorry!
Vicki Doggurl 2 years ago
Agreed. I just tried to watch season 17…. Not 15 minutes in, I remembered why I don’t even care about it anymore. Used to be one of my favorites.
Carolyn Stokes 2 years ago
It is just starting to get better last season was roll your eyes into the back of your head c**p
Seadimo Monnapula 2 years ago
I agree. Havent watched passed a lot of the new characters. They are trying to replicate some of the good things we felt about the original characters but it is becoming disingenous. They should quit and leave it at a high
Foxxy (The Original) 2 years ago
I agree. I used to watch every week until most of the original cast left.
#4
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.
#5
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.
#6
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.
#7
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...
#8
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.
#9
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.
#11
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?"
#12
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.
#13
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.
#14
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.
#15
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).
#16
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.
#17
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.
#18
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!
#19
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.
#20
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.
#21
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.
#22
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.
#23
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.
#24
Once Fonzie jumped the shark, while water skiing and wearing his jacket, the show just got progressively worse.
PS, I know.
#25
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.
#26
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.
#27
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.
#28
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.
#29
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.
#30
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.
What do you think ?
Iriané Marie Laurentwolff 2 years ago
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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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
UK productions treat them as stories to be well-told. US treat them like cows to be well-milked.
Rob 2 years ago
Big bang theory. It sank as soon as it just became about their relationship drama's.
Doggo 2 years ago
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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Sweetie Dahling 2 years ago
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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Michael Sanders 2 years ago
Another one that was just the law of diminishing returns. Just know when to bow out.
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Maxi 2 years ago
They forgot The OA. First season was the best show ever, second season was just weird and nonsense.
Tracy Rowe 2 years ago
yeah but that twist at the end...I really wanted to see how that played out.
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sinead 2 years ago
For me it was American horror story. I loved the first two seasons and cult, the others I had no taste for.
BadCat 2 years ago
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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Joni-lee Smith 2 years ago
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.
Michael Sanders 2 years ago (edited)
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!
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 2 years ago
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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TheDivineMsM 2 years ago
I can't believe Law and Order SVU isn't on this list. And Survivor. Two other shows that need to call it quits.
Tardis42 2 years ago
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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Jack Wolf 2 years ago
Teen Wolf. The later seasons were some of the worst c**p I've ever seen.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
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.
Kirsa Rasmussen 2 years ago (edited)
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
Lydia Owen the Bi-tch 2 years ago
Smallville, got slow around season7-9 loved seeing zod but just went nutso. 10 phoned it in.
GayBoi 2 years ago
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.
anarkzie 2 years ago
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... Wilf 2 years ago
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!!)
Dave Thompson 2 years ago
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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anarkzie 2 years ago
I loved Modern Family, I could have done with another season although I think certain characters did not work anymore.
Load More Replies... L Johnson 1 year ago
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?
Marta Kęska 2 years ago
Where's Sherlock BBC? that's the worst downfall and disappointment I've EVER experienced :|||
Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It was watchable (barely) up until the whole Inhumans arc.
CG 2 years ago
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).
Queen Taurus 2 years ago
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
Linda 2 years ago
- 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.
Imjust jim 2 years ago (edited)
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.
Tracy Rowe 2 years ago
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.
Shawn Gula 2 years ago
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
Steve Raddish 2 years ago
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.
Reyn-Guo 2 years ago
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...
Tracy Rowe 2 years ago
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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Casey Payne 2 years ago
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.
Brandon Parisien 2 years ago
I'll say it: Star Trek (DISCO all downhill from ep 1) and Star Wars (after Disney bought it and threw out Lucas' plans) :(
Jackie Walters 2 years ago
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
Iriané Marie Laurentwolff 2 years ago
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
Marco Conti 2 years ago
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.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
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.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
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.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 2 years ago
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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Who Panda 420 2 years ago
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.
L Johnson 1 year ago
The sexual innuendo was funny at first, then that's all that remained. Mindless sexual innuendo. They got stuck.
Load More Replies... Shane S 2 years ago
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.
Ariel Strong 2 years ago
Sleepy Hollow. First 3 seasons where awesome, then fell apart when they killed off Abbie Mills
Anna Banana 2 years ago
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.
Casey McAlister 2 years ago
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.
AuStraLiAN 2 years ago
That's right. Suits. They lost the magic once the story became less about the amazing duo (harvey and mike)
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Deanna Crichley 2 years ago
Animal Kingdom. After Smurf died, in the present, and it was all this going back young Janine, I had no use for it anymore.
Iriané Marie Laurentwolff 2 years ago
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... sofacushionfort 2 years ago
UK productions treat them as stories to be well-told. US treat them like cows to be well-milked.
Rob 2 years ago
Big bang theory. It sank as soon as it just became about their relationship drama's.
Doggo 2 years ago
Yet after the show ended I still watch it every time it airs on live tv. My family loves that show
Load More Replies... Sweetie Dahling 2 years ago
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... Michael Sanders 2 years ago
Another one that was just the law of diminishing returns. Just know when to bow out.
Load More Replies... Maxi 2 years ago
They forgot The OA. First season was the best show ever, second season was just weird and nonsense.
Tracy Rowe 2 years ago
yeah but that twist at the end...I really wanted to see how that played out.
Load More Replies... sinead 2 years ago
For me it was American horror story. I loved the first two seasons and cult, the others I had no taste for.
BadCat 2 years ago
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... Joni-lee Smith 2 years ago
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.
Michael Sanders 2 years ago (edited)
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!
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 2 years ago
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... TheDivineMsM 2 years ago
I can't believe Law and Order SVU isn't on this list. And Survivor. Two other shows that need to call it quits.
Tardis42 2 years ago
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... Jack Wolf 2 years ago
Teen Wolf. The later seasons were some of the worst c**p I've ever seen.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
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.
Kirsa Rasmussen 2 years ago (edited)
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
Lydia Owen the Bi-tch 2 years ago
Smallville, got slow around season7-9 loved seeing zod but just went nutso. 10 phoned it in.
GayBoi 2 years ago
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.
anarkzie 2 years ago
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... Wilf 2 years ago
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!!)
Dave Thompson 2 years ago
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... anarkzie 2 years ago
I loved Modern Family, I could have done with another season although I think certain characters did not work anymore.
Load More Replies... L Johnson 1 year ago
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?
Marta Kęska 2 years ago
Where's Sherlock BBC? that's the worst downfall and disappointment I've EVER experienced :|||
Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It was watchable (barely) up until the whole Inhumans arc.
CG 2 years ago
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).
Queen Taurus 2 years ago
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
Linda 2 years ago
- 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.
Imjust jim 2 years ago (edited)
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.
Tracy Rowe 2 years ago
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.
Shawn Gula 2 years ago
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
Steve Raddish 2 years ago
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.
Reyn-Guo 2 years ago
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...
Tracy Rowe 2 years ago
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... Casey Payne 2 years ago
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.
Brandon Parisien 2 years ago
I'll say it: Star Trek (DISCO all downhill from ep 1) and Star Wars (after Disney bought it and threw out Lucas' plans) :(
Jackie Walters 2 years ago
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
Iriané Marie Laurentwolff 2 years ago
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
Marco Conti 2 years ago
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.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
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.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
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.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 2 years ago
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... Who Panda 420 2 years ago
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.
L Johnson 1 year ago
The sexual innuendo was funny at first, then that's all that remained. Mindless sexual innuendo. They got stuck.
Load More Replies... Shane S 2 years ago
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.
Ariel Strong 2 years ago
Sleepy Hollow. First 3 seasons where awesome, then fell apart when they killed off Abbie Mills
Anna Banana 2 years ago
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.
Casey McAlister 2 years ago
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.
AuStraLiAN 2 years ago
That's right. Suits. They lost the magic once the story became less about the amazing duo (harvey and mike)
Load More Replies... Deanna Crichley 2 years ago
Animal Kingdom. After Smurf died, in the present, and it was all this going back young Janine, I had no use for it anymore.
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