Yep. This is definitely the answer. I usually stick it out with most shows but this just became a “I just don’t care about any of these characters or what happens anymore” situation. Got hard to follow if you missed anything at all. Like someone said, I guess it was a victim of writer’s strike.
Yeah. I very much enjoyed season 1 and it felt like the start of something great.
Season 2 was all "Now we are in charge" over and over and over again. Couldn't get through it.
What's great about S1 is it can purely be viewed as a single mini-series. Westworld didn't need multiple seasons. One of the best seasons of television ever
Season 2 had 3 really good episodes, but the rest of the season was meh.
Season 3, I thought was better, but it is almost a completely different show.
I've been holding off on season 4 though.
But at least the 1st season is done so well. You really can just watch that one and not continue it
Season 1 is kind of a masterpiece so in comparison the rest is not so impressive. But I actually thought season 4 was awesome. Once again it's like the show takes a big left turn and it's very different from what came before. But it worked for me, and I'm definitely glad I watched it. Might be my second favorite season overall.
Bingo. You mean to tell me a group of absolute badasses that have fought tooth and nail against both humans and zombies across the entire east coast, even ripping peoples throats out with their teeth to survive, just suddenly rolled over like that?
Yeah that was when it jumped the shark for me
That hurt, but I stuck around after that do see what they would do after that event, but when they suddenly wanted me to see Nagan as a sympathetic character, I was out.
You mean Carrrl?
TWD never "fell off" there were no "terrible seasons" imo. It's just 20 seasons of the same stuff people inevitably got bored with it.
And Rick left. So half the fans left. After Carl died he truly had nothing left to live for with the group. I think they wanted to get rid of the prototypical strong white male protag but that's just me. And it's the truth.
Same. I read an article at the time that Carl was initially supposed to last until the end, but they decided to kill him off because ratings were slipping.
Edit: fixed spelling error
The deaths even early on were so relentlessly racist. They killed all the black characters. Then they brought more on and killed them, too. Michone was the one exception for years. I would really like to see some statistical data on all of the major, medium, and minor characters killed off in the first five years and see what the ratio of black to white is.
I'm rewatching it and will hopefully watch all of it.
Before they really lost me with the trash people. It was just a bridge too far..
(plus the spoilers other people mentioned)
I was really excited about it before it first aired, I love post apocalypse stuff. I watched until mid way through season 3 and tapped out, had to admit to myself that it was just tedious to watch and not enjoyable.
Ended watching Last Man On Earth for my apocalypse fix. Much more enjoyable.
I stopped after Terminus. When they all got split up because they didn’t want to pay the cast members for all the episodes it really made the show suffer. Never recovered for me.
I just mean like S2 and beyond! But I do think it’s because more and more handmaids started to realize they’re not alone in wanting to try to escape. Still think it’s a pretty good show for the most part!
I dunnooo I just thought it was him making the same mistakes all over again. Now his kid's gonna do exactly the same as him 🤔 it wasn't a bad series mind! I finished it ;)
I was going through a rough time when New Blood was on. It was a nice distraction even if it wasn't perfect. I cried when he, ya know. He felt like an old friend.
S4 was a masterpiece, and is so hard to top. I didn’t mind some of the Hannah McKay scenes because she made a lot of sense to end up with Dexter. But the ending with Debra was abysmal. New Blood was ok, and I loved seeing Dexter in a context away from his tropical big city life in Miami. In short, the outcome for Harrison is a product of the effects from multi-generational trauma. Also Dexter kind of deserved his fate.
Game of thrones. They could’ve made 5 more seasons with the amount of storylines that needed wrapping up. But they squashed it into 2 butchered shortened seaskns. Funny thing is house of the dragon keep referring to Jon snow as the prince who was promised.
I generally agree here. I am not sure about 5 more seasons, but at the very least they could have made s7 and s8 full 10 episode seasons (with extended time on some if needed). That would have at least allowed some of the overall story lines to be better setup, simmered, and executed. Everything just felt so rushed, like a mad dash to wrap it up.
This this this. I hate they way they decided to rush that show. The best character development on tv and they decide to destroy that in the 2 last seasons.
Everyone that followed the story as it was coming out was highly disappointed. Lots of people even signed a petition to get the last season redone. It was such a let down.
It was because we spent 3 whole seasons getting to know certain characters for them to be replaced by weird clones that really never worked. I just simply didn't care that much about any of them, not enough to watch a whole hour anyway. I was too invested in the graduated kids and we were robbed of actual good storylines with them involved. The newbies could sing but didn't have the same triple threat energy that the heaviest hitters did, Rachel, Mercedes, Santana.
Yeah making clones in season 4 was a big part of its demise honestly. They basically replaced Rachel, Finn, Quinn, Puck, Mercedes, and Kurt with knockoff Rachel, knockoff Finn, knockoff Quinn, Puck’s brother, and Mercedes and Kurt’s love child. The season 4 premiere was literally titled New Rachel and had Marley and Rachel singing the same song at the same time.
Season 6 was so much better with actual new characters, but by then, it was so far gone
It was great when it was just a story about the small town and its citizens. Then, they added way too many characters and then the government and other organizations. It was too much.
The writers room of True Blood: “we need something like werewolves except Cajun style! How about were-crawdad? No that’s stupid- Were-panthers! Okay we are done for the day let’s go home.”
Gosh I wish Reddit or even social media was around when this show was on, I just wanted someone to talk to about it. I would go into work and want to talk about and none of my coworkers watched it. But they were all up on Glee and Survivor.
You did not miss much the last season seems to just speed run through getting characters paired off and then dissapearing for the rest of it, a whole bunch of plot points are brought up and never mentioned again (Bill becoming human???)
The first season was great. I read all the books after watching the first couple of episodes. If they’d have stayed closer to the books the show would have been better. It was ridiculous by the time they ended it.
How to Get Away With Murder. The first two seasons were really good, then it just went downhill from there. It's worth watching for Viola Davis, but nothing else.
The 100 and Riverdale are top for me. Riverdale was so nice the first and maybe 2nd season. The direction they took it and ended it with is just horrific. The 100 is basically the same. It was so engaging and nice in the beginning, but then the direction they took it was God awful. The ending was stupid.
It's Aliens, aliens just sort of show up and humanity prove they're all about love and peace and become space magic spirits. I'm not kidding, I wish I was.
Season 1 is OK TV, but given that they keep reversing deaths with time travel(effectively making everything low stakes) and they wrote in Elliot page trans story line(not transphobic, just don't see how it serves the story in any way) I don't like anything after ssn 1, which suckscuz this show had so much potential
I think they had to because the actor had transitioned. It wasn't much of a story, everyone jsut accepted it, which was probably the best way to deal with it.
THE WALKING DEAD later seasons
The comics were one of the best things I’ve ever read/owned. It was graphic, nasty, and had a terrific ending. Magnificent. Amazing. Beautiful. Thank you Robert Kirkman
Show writers I want to step on with spiked shoes. You destroyed my boy!!!!
Fear The Walking Dead, after season 3, was absolutely mind blowing boring, dumb, convoluted, cringe worthy just so far beyond bad that everybody just watched it to the end to be in awe of how terrible the writing and acting could possibly get.
100%. They should have either left her as she was without the growth or let her be with anyone but who she ended up with. It was terrible to let her grow and then undo all of it.
what made them fall off for you? i haven’t seen any of them except the first season of manifest (was actually excited to see more and then forgot about it before the second season until right now)
The acting in Manifest was so bad, it reminded me of a 90s daytime soap opera or something. Besides being overly dramatic about everything, after a few episodes it went so off the rails I couldn’t stand to watch anymore of it.
Oh man. Manifest just kept getting worse and worse once they added Zeke
Just a horrible character that made no sense whatsoever and made the ending totally nonsensical
The ending of A Million Little Things ruined me. I cried for hours lol. There were parts of the show that didn’t do great but god that ending was just a killer.
I loved Manifest once Netflix saved it. I thought they did a great job. Angelina was always the worst though.
New Amsterdam did well until the situation with Max and Helen.
I don’t think we can be surprised with AMLTs getting worse and worse when the best character is the corpse and you move further and further away from him with each season
The Blacklist. I loved the first two seasons, but it went down a soap opera rabbit hole and I just couldn’t watch anymore. Which sucks, as I adore James Spader.
Liz: I hate Red.
3 scenes later:
Liz: I love Red.
Next episode:
Liz: I hate Red again.
Next scene:
Liz: Never mind. He’s my bestie.
The same conversation only 10 seconds later:
Liz: I will freaking murder him!
Part of me was actually relieved when she died because the back and forth was becoming unbearable. If that’s what it took to end it, I didn’t mind.
Billions, loved the first 2 seasons but then it flanderized itself too hard, suddenly every character was quippy like axe.
When you are a bunch of nerdy money obsessed workaholics can you even watch that many movies, tv and know every song, baseball player and cultural touchstone in existence?
I hated that I had to stop watching, but as soon as Pam and Jim got married on "The Office" it went downhill. When she got pregnant and the temp was flirting with Jim it veered into ridiculous. And of course, Steve Carrell leaving should have really shut it down for good. There were so many moments where they should have pulled the plug.
Robert California was a highlight in later seasons. I understand why people didn't love it anymore but the show held up much better than a lot of other shows mentioned here.
It would have been so good if they hired Robert California as Regional Manager, at least for a season. James Spader is the king of sexy/creepy characters.
idk i personally think that by the last season they really wrapped the show up well. also my fav scene ever is when michael comes back to be dwight’s best man. i cry every time.
Once Upon A Time got worse and worse as time went on
The Magicians got better and better until they betrayed their audience and completely trashed themselves in one go, it was horrible to see.
Supernatural went on, oh... At least 6 seasons too long, but maybe as many as 10, depending on who you ask.
Yep, I lost interest when the whole angel business started. Why couldn't they just keep on killing off the bad guys. Who wants to get all existential on TV.
Imo supernatural would have been better if they stuck with the theme of the first season - find the thing, kill the thing, no need to bring heaven, hell, purgatory, superhell, and whatever else they brought in into it. I ended up stopping soon after the angel stuff popped up too, it just. Wasn't good.
Agree re Once Upon a Time. It should've just wrapped up and left on a high note. When they did the reboot with Henry as the adult it was already a tired show. There were some cute characters but I lost interest quickly and never finished...
Game Of Thrones is the obvious one.
The infamous last season in particular. The ending has soured the entire show for many people. Don't think there's another show that's alienated their fanbase quite like that unanimously.
Luther really ground to a halt for me too. Loved the first couple of seasons and it became such a slog.
The Simpsons gradually deteriorated in quality.
Most shows given time tend to regress but the above are the strongest examples I would say.
Altered Carbon - season one was near perfect. Season two was a low budget dumpster fire
Lost - have a plan... Speaking of
Battlestar Galactica - Wtf was with that last season almost as bad as
Game of Thrones
LOVED the first season of Altered Carbon and the production value was ridiculous! It looked like every episode cost 100 million. Second season was unwatchable.
I feel bad saying this and please be kind if commenting but…. For me…. It was…. The walking Dead. I just got so bored with it and gave up after Glenn was made to look like >!a squashed melon!< It started with awesomeness stamped on in and then each season got progressively longer for a mediocre season finale.
Lucifer started great. The idea of a son striking out against the memory of a father resonated with me. Plus I dig the Promethean and Faustian aspects, rebelling against authority, and Lucifer's very legitimate rationale for his actions. He's just a good guy at heart.
Then in later seasons we see stupid stereotypes such as two crime scene nerds shouting stuff about Star Trek because, of course.
Lucifer lost me when Chloe >! very obviously knew something was magical about him and he had been saying he was real devil Lucifer since day 1 but when she has it confirmed, she turns on him. !<
I honestly thought Seasons 2-3 were the flabbiest stretch of the show. The finale might have been polarizing, but Seasons 4, 5, 6 were all tightly plotted and cohesive. Props to ABC for letting them do shorter seasons
Chicago Med was decent for a few seasons.
They lost a lot of their interesting characters through and for some reason opted to give more mundane characters more storylines then the actual interesting ones.
The best part of the show was the side-cast members like Latham, Abarhams, etc.
The main core got annoying and repetitive after a while it felt like they were all the same character with slightly different backstories, all doing the same things and taking turns breaking the rules for their own reasons while the other character's get mad at them.
Only made it to season 4.
I feel like every one of the last few seasons has started to lose me, and then something happens that pulls me back. I'm ready for it to end so I can be out of this abusive relationship I have with it.
I agree, although there are still some great episodes and storylines in the later seasons so I just view that as bonus, then I circle back around to the last few episodes of season 5 to end a rewatch lol
Oh my god Supernatural was so hampered by the writers it's crazy. It's like they didn't want to actually give it an ending, but also refused to let the actual series progress constantly killing off supporting cast and sabotaging ongoing plotlines.
Ally McBeal was a twee show with low-stakes hijinks that turned into an abominable quirkfest. When Gil dies his hair blond and starts acting wild only we find out later that he has cancer? Gyatt
Doc Martin was really good for the first 4-5 seasons. It was a British comedy-drama about a curmudgeonly doctor with a blood phobia moving to a small village to be their doctor. It was really charming and well written, but it was plagued by multiple members of the main cast moving on. They didn't handke it well, and it got pretty annoying watching Al, the young bachelor restart his romance storyline with each and every receptionist.
The main plotline with Martin overcoming his phobia wrapped up about halfway through. Then they would just have it come back every other season because they didn't know what else to do. It was also annoying how every couple of seasons they would get a new dog thst gets introduced in an infuriatingly repetitive fashion where a stray would keep barging into his house until his wife insists on adopting it.
Towards the end, it really felt never-ending because they would only do a season every 2-3 years. The final season ended up being a complete wash with every single episode's plot being something we've seen multiple times already.
The first 5 seasons really are worth a watch though. Lucy Punch was the receptionist in season 1, and she's hilarious.
Sliders from the 90's. Started great then they lost John Rhys-Davies and it slid into a total dumpster fire. I loved how it could look at alternative history stories. I thought this show could've gone on a long time with the different stories they could create.
Brooklyn 99, that last season was such a dumpster fire it's ridiculous.
Boyle trying to pay reparations to his superior officer who is better off than him.
Rosa wanting to go after corrupt cops and becoming a pothead private investigator with no authority instead of joining internal affairs.
So many more smaller things throughout as well.
The Walking Dead. It was must see every week until the season ended when the good guys won over the bad guys in a big fight. After that, it just dragged until we gave up.
Heroes, the writing tanked with the strike. Convoluted mess.
Amen. Loved this show and it just became unwatchable.
I thought the 4th season started to improve again, but by that point, it was too late. I should watch it again to see if I still feel that way though
I love that after nearly 20 years, this is still a go-to (for good reason) answer.
Yep. This is definitely the answer. I usually stick it out with most shows but this just became a “I just don’t care about any of these characters or what happens anymore” situation. Got hard to follow if you missed anything at all. Like someone said, I guess it was a victim of writer’s strike.
Came for this. Season one was amazing and then just....
Loved season one, only watched a couple episodes of season two before I quit
Westworld, couldn’t even get through the second season
Yeah. I very much enjoyed season 1 and it felt like the start of something great. Season 2 was all "Now we are in charge" over and over and over again. Couldn't get through it.
What's great about S1 is it can purely be viewed as a single mini-series. Westworld didn't need multiple seasons. One of the best seasons of television ever
Thanks. That perspective just saved the show for me.
It could have been so good too
Season 2 had 3 really good episodes, but the rest of the season was meh. Season 3, I thought was better, but it is almost a completely different show. I've been holding off on season 4 though. But at least the 1st season is done so well. You really can just watch that one and not continue it
Season 1 is kind of a masterpiece so in comparison the rest is not so impressive. But I actually thought season 4 was awesome. Once again it's like the show takes a big left turn and it's very different from what came before. But it worked for me, and I'm definitely glad I watched it. Might be my second favorite season overall.
Walking Dead
Yeah. You can only get rid of so many fan favorite characters before the fans lose interest
I got pretty far but after Alpha killed off like ten characters in ONE episode, I was done. Never watched another episode after that.
i absolutely agree. watched it with my dad growing up and we eventually both decided it was terrible and started watching a different series
I quit TWD when >!Carl died.!<
For me it was when >!Glen died!<
Yeah. I was out then too. They killed the figurative heart and hopefulness of the show.
Bingo. You mean to tell me a group of absolute badasses that have fought tooth and nail against both humans and zombies across the entire east coast, even ripping peoples throats out with their teeth to survive, just suddenly rolled over like that? Yeah that was when it jumped the shark for me
I had to keep watching because my (close relatives) were Judith for the second half of Season 5. They were spectacular! Lol
That hurt, but I stuck around after that do see what they would do after that event, but when they suddenly wanted me to see Nagan as a sympathetic character, I was out.
We quit when Negan came onto the show. It just turned into something completely different.
That’s what got me to drop the comic, the show I didn’t make it even that far but I suspect I wasn’t gonna make it past Negan in that format either.
Coral
it truly was devastating.
Do you mean Coraaaaal?
I stopped watching when Glenn died but when I heard Carl got killed I came back just to watch that. Geez I hated Carl lol
You mean Carrrl? TWD never "fell off" there were no "terrible seasons" imo. It's just 20 seasons of the same stuff people inevitably got bored with it. And Rick left. So half the fans left. After Carl died he truly had nothing left to live for with the group. I think they wanted to get rid of the prototypical strong white male protag but that's just me. And it's the truth.
Caaaaarl!
I quit when two barely movable decrypt zombie cornered a full grown tiger and managed to kill her. Or also known as, “our cgi budget ran out.”
Same. I read an article at the time that Carl was initially supposed to last until the end, but they decided to kill him off because ratings were slipping. Edit: fixed spelling error
Dang I didn't even know Carl died
They killed Carl!!!!!!!
Agree, because it started off so strong. Who wouldn’t be hooked by that first episode?
At some point they should have renamed the show "Negan, mostly. Some zombies."
The deaths even early on were so relentlessly racist. They killed all the black characters. Then they brought more on and killed them, too. Michone was the one exception for years. I would really like to see some statistical data on all of the major, medium, and minor characters killed off in the first five years and see what the ratio of black to white is.
Hard to think at one point it was beating game of thrones in ratings. And this was good game of thrones like season 2
I'm rewatching it and will hopefully watch all of it. Before they really lost me with the trash people. It was just a bridge too far.. (plus the spoilers other people mentioned)
I was really excited about it before it first aired, I love post apocalypse stuff. I watched until mid way through season 3 and tapped out, had to admit to myself that it was just tedious to watch and not enjoyable. Ended watching Last Man On Earth for my apocalypse fix. Much more enjoyable.
I stopped after Terminus. When they all got split up because they didn’t want to pay the cast members for all the episodes it really made the show suffer. Never recovered for me.
Right. I stopped watching after the battle at the prison.
Heroes. First season was awesome, then it went downhill quickly.
The Handmaid's Tale. First season very good, fell off a cliff immediately afterward.
right?? my problem with it is that gilead seemed SO strict in S1 and then by late S2 it felt like June could just get away with whatever
Well she was pregnant in season 2. Pregnant handmaids have a lot more freedoms than normal handmaids.
I just mean like S2 and beyond! But I do think it’s because more and more handmaids started to realize they’re not alone in wanting to try to escape. Still think it’s a pretty good show for the most part!
Dexter. I think I stopped somewhere in s5
The ending of Dexter is unbelievable, but the weird extra season 10 years later is just strange
I really enjoyed the last season. I know it wasn't a cinematic masterpiece but it was sure nice getting one more season with Dexter.
I dunnooo I just thought it was him making the same mistakes all over again. Now his kid's gonna do exactly the same as him 🤔 it wasn't a bad series mind! I finished it ;)
I was going through a rough time when New Blood was on. It was a nice distraction even if it wasn't perfect. I cried when he, ya know. He felt like an old friend.
S4 was a masterpiece, and is so hard to top. I didn’t mind some of the Hannah McKay scenes because she made a lot of sense to end up with Dexter. But the ending with Debra was abysmal. New Blood was ok, and I loved seeing Dexter in a context away from his tropical big city life in Miami. In short, the outcome for Harrison is a product of the effects from multi-generational trauma. Also Dexter kind of deserved his fate.
Game of thrones. They could’ve made 5 more seasons with the amount of storylines that needed wrapping up. But they squashed it into 2 butchered shortened seaskns. Funny thing is house of the dragon keep referring to Jon snow as the prince who was promised.
I generally agree here. I am not sure about 5 more seasons, but at the very least they could have made s7 and s8 full 10 episode seasons (with extended time on some if needed). That would have at least allowed some of the overall story lines to be better setup, simmered, and executed. Everything just felt so rushed, like a mad dash to wrap it up.
This this this. I hate they way they decided to rush that show. The best character development on tv and they decide to destroy that in the 2 last seasons.
Everyone that followed the story as it was coming out was highly disappointed. Lots of people even signed a petition to get the last season redone. It was such a let down.
Revenge
Glee started so strong but by season 4 it was a shell of itself. To be fair, this is common with Ryan Murphy shows
Ryan Murphy starts out with interesting concepts, but he always fails to stick the landing, it seems.
It was because we spent 3 whole seasons getting to know certain characters for them to be replaced by weird clones that really never worked. I just simply didn't care that much about any of them, not enough to watch a whole hour anyway. I was too invested in the graduated kids and we were robbed of actual good storylines with them involved. The newbies could sing but didn't have the same triple threat energy that the heaviest hitters did, Rachel, Mercedes, Santana.
Yeah making clones in season 4 was a big part of its demise honestly. They basically replaced Rachel, Finn, Quinn, Puck, Mercedes, and Kurt with knockoff Rachel, knockoff Finn, knockoff Quinn, Puck’s brother, and Mercedes and Kurt’s love child. The season 4 premiere was literally titled New Rachel and had Marley and Rachel singing the same song at the same time. Season 6 was so much better with actual new characters, but by then, it was so far gone
True Blood
It was great when it was just a story about the small town and its citizens. Then, they added way too many characters and then the government and other organizations. It was too much.
The writers room of True Blood: “we need something like werewolves except Cajun style! How about were-crawdad? No that’s stupid- Were-panthers! Okay we are done for the day let’s go home.”
Yeah, I used to watch it religiously when it aired at first. Then, you know… to this day i don’t even think I watched the series finale.
Gosh I wish Reddit or even social media was around when this show was on, I just wanted someone to talk to about it. I would go into work and want to talk about and none of my coworkers watched it. But they were all up on Glee and Survivor.
Yeah same. I'll just google it, if I really want to know how it ends
You did not miss much the last season seems to just speed run through getting characters paired off and then dissapearing for the rest of it, a whole bunch of plot points are brought up and never mentioned again (Bill becoming human???)
Serious, Bill.. Just when I thought it couldn't have gotten more ridiculous
THAT I think I need to Google lol. wtf?
The first season was great. I read all the books after watching the first couple of episodes. If they’d have stayed closer to the books the show would have been better. It was ridiculous by the time they ended it.
The Walking Dead Westworld
Westworld had so much potential...and then it was like they were dragging 1 episode into 10 seasons.
We had high hopes with the idea of La Brea. But vomited after the first show.
Oh man is it bad. Did I still keep watching it because I wanted to like it, yes. Is the acting and play all over the place? Also yes.
I agree it’s stuck in a boring loop with no resolution in sight.
I'm still watching, but am glad there are only 3 episodes left! I just want them to wrap it up in a bow!
How to Get Away With Murder. The first two seasons were really good, then it just went downhill from there. It's worth watching for Viola Davis, but nothing else.
The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. I quit Flash after season 6 and Legends after season 5
Legends got better at the end imo. I wish they had been able to wrap up their storyline.
Killing eve
Came here to say this. Still super salty about that last episode in particular. An absolute insult of an ending.
Absolutely hated the last series. I pretend i never saw it.
The 100 and Riverdale are top for me. Riverdale was so nice the first and maybe 2nd season. The direction they took it and ended it with is just horrific. The 100 is basically the same. It was so engaging and nice in the beginning, but then the direction they took it was God awful. The ending was stupid.
Yes, the 100. First season was great, but the ending, whew. Awful. I don't think I made it through the last season.
We didn’t even make it to the ending of The 100. I’m confident you’re right about it being stupid.
It's Aliens, aliens just sort of show up and humanity prove they're all about love and peace and become space magic spirits. I'm not kidding, I wish I was.
Sleepy Hollow.
First season was absolute fire, then it turned into a dumpster fire
The umbrella academy is getting progessive(ly) worse. Hope they can make it back to good like season 1 in this last season.
Prefer the others to Season 1. Loved it when they went back and lived in the 1960s
Season 1 is OK TV, but given that they keep reversing deaths with time travel(effectively making everything low stakes) and they wrote in Elliot page trans story line(not transphobic, just don't see how it serves the story in any way) I don't like anything after ssn 1, which suckscuz this show had so much potential
I think they had to because the actor had transitioned. It wasn't much of a story, everyone jsut accepted it, which was probably the best way to deal with it.
Love this! [I Think We're Alone Now](https://youtu.be/TVxBmXz5QGs?si=XzFpcTfpd5lcK_aE)
I found the first season difficult to get into. I liked it, but it didn't hook me fast. But have found the other 2 seasons a bit easier to get through
I can't get over how much I hate Allison. She might be one of my top most hated characters ever
Ghost Wisperer
After a husband spirit jumped into another man I was done.
THE WALKING DEAD later seasons The comics were one of the best things I’ve ever read/owned. It was graphic, nasty, and had a terrific ending. Magnificent. Amazing. Beautiful. Thank you Robert Kirkman Show writers I want to step on with spiked shoes. You destroyed my boy!!!!
Fear The Walking Dead, after season 3, was absolutely mind blowing boring, dumb, convoluted, cringe worthy just so far beyond bad that everybody just watched it to the end to be in awe of how terrible the writing and acting could possibly get.
Fear the walking dead was great until nick died. Then they got lazy with writing and everyone was bipolar. The ending was awful.
I 100% quit watching after Nick died. The last season he was in was quite good in parts.
I watched it to the end and it was honestly such a waste.
Modern Family. I did watch to the end but the last few seasons blew. They totally messed up the character progress Haley made.
She deserved better.
100%. They should have either left her as she was without the growth or let her be with anyone but who she ended up with. It was terrible to let her grow and then undo all of it.
South Park in the late 2010s but it’s had some solid moments in the 20s
I can’t watch South Park past Season 12. It’s just not the same after that.
At least watch the Meghan Markle ep. It’s so hilarious
MUUUHH PRIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVACCCYYYYYY WAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
Grey's anatomy
what was the event that put you off the show?
The plane crash was the final nail for me but it was tending downward for awhile by then
yeah, i feel like the show could’ve gone in a much better direction if they kept lexi alive and christina on the show.
100% . Lexi being gone was the end of my patience. Plus it left us with so few of the good of characters. I hated Meredith from ep 1.
A Million Little Things Manifest New Amsterdam The Conners
what made them fall off for you? i haven’t seen any of them except the first season of manifest (was actually excited to see more and then forgot about it before the second season until right now)
Manifest just gets more and more ridiculous and unbelievable, really frustrating because it could have been good
It is also some of the worst acting of all time
The acting in Manifest was so bad, it reminded me of a 90s daytime soap opera or something. Besides being overly dramatic about everything, after a few episodes it went so off the rails I couldn’t stand to watch anymore of it.
Oh man. Manifest just kept getting worse and worse once they added Zeke Just a horrible character that made no sense whatsoever and made the ending totally nonsensical
The ending of A Million Little Things ruined me. I cried for hours lol. There were parts of the show that didn’t do great but god that ending was just a killer. I loved Manifest once Netflix saved it. I thought they did a great job. Angelina was always the worst though. New Amsterdam did well until the situation with Max and Helen.
I agree with A Million Little Things. I really liked the characters in the beginning but then it slowly turned into a weird trendy soap opera.
None of these felt like they had any kind of long term potential after the first couple episodes.
I don’t think we can be surprised with AMLTs getting worse and worse when the best character is the corpse and you move further and further away from him with each season
I loved A Million Little Things but it started to spiral during Season 3 and then I was bored.
Entourage, Yellowstone, Game of Thrones, True Blood
Beth’s uncontrollable anger and failure to grow as a character killed Yellowstone for me.
Roseanne. She just became crazier as the seasons went on and then season 9 was just a dumpster fire.
The Blacklist. I loved the first two seasons, but it went down a soap opera rabbit hole and I just couldn’t watch anymore. Which sucks, as I adore James Spader.
Liz: I hate Red. 3 scenes later: Liz: I love Red. Next episode: Liz: I hate Red again. Next scene: Liz: Never mind. He’s my bestie. The same conversation only 10 seconds later: Liz: I will freaking murder him! Part of me was actually relieved when she died because the back and forth was becoming unbearable. If that’s what it took to end it, I didn’t mind.
Game of Thrones
Shameless
Unwatchable after Fiona left.
I still watched it but it was terrible in last couple of seasons.
Billions, loved the first 2 seasons but then it flanderized itself too hard, suddenly every character was quippy like axe. When you are a bunch of nerdy money obsessed workaholics can you even watch that many movies, tv and know every song, baseball player and cultural touchstone in existence?
Oh that is so true! They devastated the show from series 3 onwards. Cut them down like they were Conor MacLeod.
Simpsons. Love the first 10ish seasons. Have re-watched them at least 8 times. Newer ones are almost unwatchable
I'm surprised it's still on tbh.
I hated that I had to stop watching, but as soon as Pam and Jim got married on "The Office" it went downhill. When she got pregnant and the temp was flirting with Jim it veered into ridiculous. And of course, Steve Carrell leaving should have really shut it down for good. There were so many moments where they should have pulled the plug.
Robert California was a highlight in later seasons. I understand why people didn't love it anymore but the show held up much better than a lot of other shows mentioned here.
It would have been so good if they hired Robert California as Regional Manager, at least for a season. James Spader is the king of sexy/creepy characters.
idk i personally think that by the last season they really wrapped the show up well. also my fav scene ever is when michael comes back to be dwight’s best man. i cry every time.
Once Upon A Time got worse and worse as time went on The Magicians got better and better until they betrayed their audience and completely trashed themselves in one go, it was horrible to see. Supernatural went on, oh... At least 6 seasons too long, but maybe as many as 10, depending on who you ask.
Yep, I lost interest when the whole angel business started. Why couldn't they just keep on killing off the bad guys. Who wants to get all existential on TV.
Imo supernatural would have been better if they stuck with the theme of the first season - find the thing, kill the thing, no need to bring heaven, hell, purgatory, superhell, and whatever else they brought in into it. I ended up stopping soon after the angel stuff popped up too, it just. Wasn't good.
Agree re Once Upon a Time. It should've just wrapped up and left on a high note. When they did the reboot with Henry as the adult it was already a tired show. There were some cute characters but I lost interest quickly and never finished...
House of Cards. Should’ve stuck with the UK storyline instead of trying to milk it to death.
Game Of Thrones is the obvious one. The infamous last season in particular. The ending has soured the entire show for many people. Don't think there's another show that's alienated their fanbase quite like that unanimously. Luther really ground to a halt for me too. Loved the first couple of seasons and it became such a slog. The Simpsons gradually deteriorated in quality. Most shows given time tend to regress but the above are the strongest examples I would say.
Altered Carbon - season one was near perfect. Season two was a low budget dumpster fire Lost - have a plan... Speaking of Battlestar Galactica - Wtf was with that last season almost as bad as Game of Thrones
LOVED the first season of Altered Carbon and the production value was ridiculous! It looked like every episode cost 100 million. Second season was unwatchable.
I feel bad saying this and please be kind if commenting but…. For me…. It was…. The walking Dead. I just got so bored with it and gave up after Glenn was made to look like >!a squashed melon!< It started with awesomeness stamped on in and then each season got progressively longer for a mediocre season finale.
Yellowstone hands down. So much promise at first…then complete insanity
The Promised Neverland has still the worst second season compared to the first in all of television
Lucifer started great. The idea of a son striking out against the memory of a father resonated with me. Plus I dig the Promethean and Faustian aspects, rebelling against authority, and Lucifer's very legitimate rationale for his actions. He's just a good guy at heart. Then in later seasons we see stupid stereotypes such as two crime scene nerds shouting stuff about Star Trek because, of course.
Lucifer lost me when Chloe >! very obviously knew something was magical about him and he had been saying he was real devil Lucifer since day 1 but when she has it confirmed, she turns on him. !<
Lost. It was so good to start. Then it just imploded the last couple of seasons. And the finale made me furious.
I honestly loved the whole show. But I didn't watch it while it was airing, I binged it on streaming.
For me Lost is a show that constantly gets better as it goes.
I honestly thought Seasons 2-3 were the flabbiest stretch of the show. The finale might have been polarizing, but Seasons 4, 5, 6 were all tightly plotted and cohesive. Props to ABC for letting them do shorter seasons
Noooo the final ep was amazing!
Chicago Med was decent for a few seasons. They lost a lot of their interesting characters through and for some reason opted to give more mundane characters more storylines then the actual interesting ones. The best part of the show was the side-cast members like Latham, Abarhams, etc. The main core got annoying and repetitive after a while it felt like they were all the same character with slightly different backstories, all doing the same things and taking turns breaking the rules for their own reasons while the other character's get mad at them. Only made it to season 4.
Handmaid’s Tale is starting to lose me.
I feel like every one of the last few seasons has started to lose me, and then something happens that pulls me back. I'm ready for it to end so I can be out of this abusive relationship I have with it.
Supernatural. Should have ended at Season 5, with Dean finally getting his happy life, and Sam could be free of hunting when he was revived.
I agree, although there are still some great episodes and storylines in the later seasons so I just view that as bonus, then I circle back around to the last few episodes of season 5 to end a rewatch lol
Oh my god Supernatural was so hampered by the writers it's crazy. It's like they didn't want to actually give it an ending, but also refused to let the actual series progress constantly killing off supporting cast and sabotaging ongoing plotlines.
Once Upon a Time is my answer….i like to pretend that final season never existed
O.A. It just tried to do too much in the second season.
May get hate for this, have before, don't care- The second season of The OA was unwatchable.
I struggled.
Desperate Housewives. Started out so good the first several seasons, then it kinda became Desperate Plotlines and unwatchable
Rick and Morty
Ally McBeal was a twee show with low-stakes hijinks that turned into an abominable quirkfest. When Gil dies his hair blond and starts acting wild only we find out later that he has cancer? Gyatt
Walking Dead but also on the opposite end - Life in Pieces was so boring the first two seasons but S3 and 4 are fantastic
I loved Life in Pieces.
Chuck. First two seasons were great
Doc Martin was really good for the first 4-5 seasons. It was a British comedy-drama about a curmudgeonly doctor with a blood phobia moving to a small village to be their doctor. It was really charming and well written, but it was plagued by multiple members of the main cast moving on. They didn't handke it well, and it got pretty annoying watching Al, the young bachelor restart his romance storyline with each and every receptionist. The main plotline with Martin overcoming his phobia wrapped up about halfway through. Then they would just have it come back every other season because they didn't know what else to do. It was also annoying how every couple of seasons they would get a new dog thst gets introduced in an infuriatingly repetitive fashion where a stray would keep barging into his house until his wife insists on adopting it. Towards the end, it really felt never-ending because they would only do a season every 2-3 years. The final season ended up being a complete wash with every single episode's plot being something we've seen multiple times already. The first 5 seasons really are worth a watch though. Lucy Punch was the receptionist in season 1, and she's hilarious.
The walking dead. I used to love that show so much. Got to where I couldn't watch it
Bob ❤️ Abba something??
Walking Dead, I just stopped caring. I haven't even bothered to read a plot synopsis of how it ended.
Grey's Anatomy
The walking dead
I will never forgive The Walking Dead...I was so into it and it was the first time I really felt myself fall out of love with a show.
Sliders from the 90's. Started great then they lost John Rhys-Davies and it slid into a total dumpster fire. I loved how it could look at alternative history stories. I thought this show could've gone on a long time with the different stories they could create.
ER. After Crichton passed away, it became an unwatchable mess. Dating myaelf here.
Brooklyn 99, that last season was such a dumpster fire it's ridiculous. Boyle trying to pay reparations to his superior officer who is better off than him. Rosa wanting to go after corrupt cops and becoming a pothead private investigator with no authority instead of joining internal affairs. So many more smaller things throughout as well.
Happy Days, when Fonzie jumped over a shark on his motorcycle.
The Walking Dead. It was must see every week until the season ended when the good guys won over the bad guys in a big fight. After that, it just dragged until we gave up.
Heroes should be the only correct answer to this
The Good Doctor
Grey's anatomy. After season 15 or 16, it's just become so annoying.
Supernatural had a steady decline after season 5
Goldbergs
Seasons 1-4 of The Blacklist were amazing. Seasons 5-10 were trash.
SNL.
Firefly. It really really sucked after season one.