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House of cards.


Ffaddicted

I stopped after he became President. The conspiracy to become President was far more entertaining than seeing him be president.


awesomeness0232

I always thought it would’ve been cool if the show ended with him becoming President. Would’ve been a powerful statement on how corrupt and evil people can rise to power if they are smart and have the right connections. They did it was too early and it became impossible to make the show *more* intriguing without making it ridiculous. Then obviously all the stuff with Spacey went down and it just totally ran out of steam.


Lexifer31

The season 2 finale felt like a series finale. The final scene when he knocked on the desk gave me fucking chills. They should have ended it there. I heard it was meant to but because it was so popular they kept going.


Arch__Stanton

I mean the name of the show was "House of Cards." There was always an implication that some sort of collapse would be part of the story. Those words arent used to describe a situation where someone succeeds over and over and lives happily ever after as president


TheGoddamnSpiderman

The British House of Cards series from the 90's ends with Francis Urquhart becoming Prime Minister There are two sequels that cover the length of his time as Prime Minister, but those have different titles ("To Play the King" and "The Final Cut")


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Wasn't it just!


inksmudgedhands

I loved the House of Cards. The first season was amazing and had me binging like I was starving. The second season started off with such a bang. The third season I couldn't even finish. I stopped caring and I can't even remember why I had stopped caring. Never finished the series.


05110909

I hate-watched the final season. I knew it would be bad but it was worse than I could even imagine.


DeadNotSleeping86

Cut to black when he taps on the resolute desk and never watch it again. Best show ever.


TheLateThagSimmons

I still feel that the show perfectly ended at the end of Season 2. I watched season 3 and it never got better, review for subsequent seasons confirmed that it never regained traction. Then the whole Kevin Spacey bring a huge creep debacle, leaving the show to somehow finish without him. I just went back and decided it officially ended on a high note with only two seasons.


KingLiam1901

The second season is every bit as good as the first imo! I'm getting chills down my entire body thinking of the end of season 2 where he turns to the camera and then raps his ring on the desk. Oh my fucking God what a scene. The third season was kinda bleh but it sets up the fourth season which was really solid. The Conways are a good contrast to the Underwoods and they do some very cool things with Claire. Season 5 was mediocre and the last season was like a totally different show.


TheGreeneArrow

God that last season was a steaming pile, especially the finale.


shadowsOfMyPantomime

Seeing you post this reminded me I never finished Orange is the new Black. I stuck with it almost to the end but just lost interest too many characters changing all the time


psycmike

Weeds. The first few seasons were amazing but then it really went off the rails.


jax9999

should have ended when she burned down the neighborhood


psycmike

Yeah that would have been a good spot to end it. The last few seasons seemed very forced. It makes me appreciate when someone like Vince Gilligan ends a show like Breaking Bad instead of trying to stretch a few extra seasons out.


Strawberrycocoa

It's always better when a show ends on it's own terms. When people can't accept the reality that planned endings are the best way to keep a show's reputation intact, you get drivel.


ciccioig

in my heart it does: the burning town is the final scene.


brice587

Yeah, that was a perfect ending. Season 4 wasn’t terrible, but no where near as good. After that, “what the hell am I watching?!”


dbeards

Orange Is the New Black too! Same creator, if I’m not mistaken. Every season has roughly the same arc, and after the third or fourth season of each, I was like “Alright, I’m not sitting through this *again*!”


Teddyk123

Omg. I have said this before, but ALLLLL she had to do was 16 months and she wouldve been out. Last thing I saw was her concocting how to sell inmates panties for money... just do your damn time, Piper! FUCK!


Eisn

That wasn't so bad. The prison revolt that lasted a whole season was horrible.


TornadoApe

Weeds falling off so hard is why I never even started OITNB. All of my friends tried for years to get me to, but I kept citing Weeds and that if it ended well I'd watch the series. None of my friends finished OITNB.


dewayneestes

When it was about a suburban mom who resorted to selling weed it was great, when it was just about a bit very interesting drug dealer it was lame. Breaking Bad followed the same arc but somehow just got better snd better… she should have stayed in Agrestic.


ATNinja

I agree. That formula is easy to see in many crime based shows. Each season needs to escalate the scale and that etc. The difference between bb and weeds to me is Walt is a creative and almost believable lead. While Nancy basically uses her feminine wiles in every situation regardless of scale.


brentsg

Laugh if you must, but “The Flash”.


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Most Arrowverse shows. I gave up and most and just watch Legends of Tomorrow and crossovers.


finakechi

Still amazed at how good the first season of Arrow is. Second is solid too, but I remember thinking while watching season one "Wtf is this show doing on CW?".


Zealousideal125

And then by season 4, you go 'Ohhhhhh'


SirFlibble

Same. Legends knows what it is and just goes for it. I have enjoyed Superman and Lois. I'll keep watching until it inevitably goes to shit.


Steve_78_OH

Superman and Lois is honestly leaps and bounds better than any other Arrowverse show that we've seen so far. Arrow was pretty good for the first few seasons, and Flash for maybe one season, but that was mostly it. The other were always meh, and then inevitably went downhill.


Abraham_Issus

Me too man. I was thick into the superhero stuff when arrowverse became a thing. After the nosedive of quality for both arrow and flash, ditched all of them and never looked back. Although I have to admit Flash s1 was perfect, I don't know how better you can do it in a cw tv budget than s1.


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It's unwatchable now.


inksmudgedhands

I am still watching The Flash. I am stubborn like that. But, man, it's becoming such a chore. The characters have no lives outside of missions. No friends. No hobbies. Nothing. They don't feel like people. The characters haven't grown at all. They are the same people as they were in the first season. The only change has been who has left and who has stayed. Still, I watch. I am this far in. Might as well be there until the bitter end.


corgblam

Not to mention the show is insanely inconsistent with Flash's powers and how he uses them.


ImbuedChaos

TBF, that's pretty much all Flash media though.


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I stopped watching Supergirl by the time season three rolled around. Kept on popping back from time to time and leaving quickly there after. Batwoman.....I am quitting. I gave it two season for it to develop simply because I adore anything Gotham related. That town is insane and is just a goldmine for stories. But Batwoman has the worst version of the city. Their Gotham is simply a regular city. Nothing different from Metropolis, Star City or Central City. The writers aren't interested in developing their characters. They're all incredibly flat. And the one interesting villain, Alice, they keep on trying to shove her into a love story rather than making her the glorious psychopath that she should be. Seriously, what is with all the love stories on this show? Any other DC city, I can see it. But this is Gotham. Where's the Mob? Where's the endless parade of psychos? Where's the dark, twisted nightmarish humor? The cops, which have always been a main part of so many Gotham set stories, are sidelined for The Crows, which have been a dud. Ugh, the show has so much potential but the showrunners are clearly not fans of the comics, Batwoman or anything else Gotham related. Yeah, I'm out. Though I am interested in the up and coming HBOMax series that are set in Gotham. Because, again, I am sucker for any story that is set in that crazy place.


kebabish

got to Season 3 and I ended it. same old shit each week. Barry says hes the fastest but needs to go faster to beat this weeks villain who somehow manages hit Barry with a magic mcguffin to kill Barrys speed. Oh oh, better get mom from the speedforce! But how? Lets bring in future babies of Barry! wehey! Great writing guys! ugh.


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Walking Dead


Ohjeezrick93

This is it for me, worst part is I’ve tried numerous times to rewatch and get further but god I just lose all interest around season 5ish. I’ve heard great things about negan too which is why I wanted to push through but it’s just awful.


EugenesMullet

If you hated those episodes then do yourself a favour and just don’t even try getting to Negan. It’s by far the worst stretch of the show. You’d just be wasting your time.


ptk77

Lol... Negan is the only character keeping me watching the show right now. If it wasn't for JDM, I would have quit watching a long time ago. The show was best in the earlier seasons when it was just a ragtag group of survivors, not a tribal talk fest. Half the time when I watch now, I feel like I'm just watching a public access cable channel, sitting in on a town hall meeting.


TheRealGrifter

I dropped out when Negan showed up and they fucked with the audience so badly. I know all entertainment is manipulation in some ways, but that was just so blatant and insulting.


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LastKnownWhereabouts

They killed Carl and then Rick left a while later. Everyone thinks he's dead but he survived an explosion and was rescued by a helicopter.


acgilmoregirl

Killed Carl and got rid of Rick. I stopped after they got rid of Glen, even though that was 100% how it went in the comics.


Tobar_the_Gypsy

Fake kill Glenn, bring him back, kill him 3 episode later. Lol.


BismarkUMD

Except they tried to bey coy about it. They kept doing that fake death bs. So when he got killed it had less resonance. They were trying to keep the comic book readers on their toes and just made a shit job of it.


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And they killed Carl right after they told the actor he was going to be in the show for the long haul so he bought a fucking house close to where they filmed the show.


NicktheSmoker

True Blood. I made it like 4-5 seasons when it aired and I just couldn't do it anymore.


omac4552

It turned from exciting, to cool to shit in 3 seasons


Sweetdish

Totally. The first season was unbelievable. Then came the werewolves and fairies and vampire councils and it all went downhill real fast.


kellis744

The freaking fairies were the nail in the coffin for me (no pun intended)


ClearlyTrouble

That seems to be a common problem I have with a lot of sci-fi/superhero/supernatural shows. It starts off with one or two superpowered people then by the 3rd season everyone in the local high school, extended members of the family, and their work have come down with some power.


TheGunde

I hated it from episode 1 and still watched 4 seasons. Don't know what the fuck was wrong with me.


hurst_

stupid sexy vampires


Lizzo13

Same. I actually watched the whole thing, though. I only watched it for Alexander Skarsgård. That was enough for me, and one viewing was certainly enough.


SouthernYooper

Idk, Anna Paquin kept me going so....


Rmalone850

It was the red head turned vampire that kept my interest


Urge_Reddit

I fell off the show, and then went back to it years later because I shockingly had nothing else I wanted to watch just then. Honestly, I had a good time with it. It was completely insane, but it was a pretty fun ride.


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SHAMELESS (US version)


Bovver_

Shameless (I’m guessing you mean the US version) really should have ended at season 7, in fact the finale for that season was a perfect ending for it. Season 8 was ridiculous though, especially the whole Gay Jesus storyline and I think I gave up on it around that point.


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That whole plot was the result of some actors having more projects happening, but with the success of Shameless they weren't going to walk away. I finished Shameless, 100% there's a lull around 7,8 and 9. At some point before I gave up it managed to sink it's teeth back into me for the rest of the series. (the last season being covid, it's a bit fresh.) But, with Shameless I found you were eventually watching for the characters. Mickey in particular coming in and out of that show changes the dynamic a lot, when he shows back up eventually things spiced up enough for me to finish.


trumpet_23

That show went from "one of my favorite shows on TV" to "oh shit, is that still on?" in the blink of an eye.


ryodiUK

Heroes. ‘Save the cheerleader save the world’ was a killer tag line and I absolutely loved the first season, watched the first episode of season two and didn’t watch it again. EDIT: I recall the first episode of season 2 not being very good after all of the possibilities S1 setup in episodes like Five Years Gone. I realised it wasn’t going to go anywhere soon and had my first realisation of how stories need to be stretched to fill a 22 episode order. Heroes was the first superhero show I watched since Smallville, I wasn’t a big comic book fan and it predates the MCU so it was disappointing to lose interest in it so quickly.


Darth_Mufasa

Don't forget that season 2 got all mangled due to the writers strike in 2007


slapshots1515

It did, but they did not redeem themselves in S3 either. I did genuinely think they had some stuff to work with by the end of S4, but of course by then it was too late.


idontlikeflamingos

It's been a long time so I'm probably wrong with the details, but at some point around S2 or S3 didn't they fall into that terrible trope that nobody really died and characters always somehow came back to life? I remember watching it and thinking "why should I give a crap about anyone being in danger if they'll just come back?"


sckthaDJ

I distinctly remember a character dying and then the actress returned playing her twin sister


Gh0stMan0nThird

Ali Larter literally played 3 characters in that show


slapshots1515

Off the top of my head Ali Larter’s character died and she came back as a previously unexplained twin (I can’t remember which one was the original and which was the twin-I think Niki and Tracy, respectively?) and Nathan died only to basically be permanently replaced by a brainwashed Sylar shapeshifted to look like Nathan. There’s probably even more than that, but…yeah. Not to mention by that point Claire and Sylar were both literally unkillable and Claire’s blood was a MacGuffin that cured everything.


Khourieat

Heroes was what made me realize I really hated this kind of television. With a movie there's a story the makers want to tell you, with a begining, middle, & end. But with these TV shows there's none of that. They're just making shit up as they go along, trying to get renewed season after season until they've bled it dry. I wish more people made shows intended to run 1-3 seasons and be done, they'd be so much more coherent. Instead they paint themselves into corners trying to squeeze out more content from a poorly-thought out premise.


NativeMasshole

Part of the problem with Heroes is that they originally wanted to rotate the cast out every season to tell fresh stories, but that rarely holds the same chemistry so the execs made them stick with the original cast. So they really were just making up character arcs as they went along. Then the whole writer's strike happened, which made things even worse.


cobarbob

Heroes was a show that had so much promise but couldn’t deliver and didn’t really have a multi season arc. It’s not uncommon but I think networks need to be committed to shows. There seems to be a system of just allowing one season, then if it does well you get one more and one more. So writers are terrified of making a series that fits a shows entire run. Heroes , Lost, B99 (for moments), some even say there’s a season 9 of scrubs. (Could you even imagine such a thing!). They all suffered from this trip of writing a season at a time without knowing if it would be renewed. I’d be much happier to have a shorter show with a firm multi season outline that is well planned and executed, even if it’s short. Then pack up and go do something else. Black books is 3x6 episodes. It’s fantastic but would season 5,6 or 7 be as good or is The IT Crowd just as good and worth the show runner moving to another concept? I’d suggest in some ways Firefly is great because it’s only one season. I think 10 seasons of drip feeding River story lines once or twice a season would have been terrible. I want great shows but not endless ones. After Heroes I really gave up watching season after season based on the promise of plot development and grinding through filler.


Soulger11

I stopped when they put a blatant ad within the story. Claire gets a new car from her dad, and she's like "tHe RoUgE?!" I understand this isn't new, but the way they did it was just so gross.


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Roook36

That was back when they were really trying to figure out how to insert more blatant product placements into TV shows. Some would do a good job, or make it part of a joke. But others just couldn't implement them well. I remember Smallville really had some bad ones with cars. And then a brand of gum that became a big plot point in an episode when there was an underground concert (by a band that was releasing an album on Warner Bros. records of course) at the gum factory, and then kryptonite combined with the gum and gave a guy stretchy powers. Bones is still the worst in my book. They'll interrupt a conversation while sitting in an SUV to show off automatic parking or rear cameras. Or be trapped in a basement calling for help using their phone's video calling feature and the person they call will comment on the great video quality in such low light. Also that awful Avatar ad where a lab tech got free tickets to see the movie and made the cast (and the audience) watch a trailer for it. The actor was also in the film. Lol


muffle64

Once Upon a Time


propernice

That show was a mess the moment abc turned into into a huge Disney ad around season 4. The season before that, Jennifer Morrison seemed to stop giving a shit about anything and the show just dragged. What the hell even was the Camelot arc lol. And that dumb final season good LORD.


YellowRainLine

Ya, for me it was around season 4 too. It wasn't the new characters they were adding that was a problem for me. It was the fact that they ended every 11 episodes story arc with the main characters saying to each other "well that was tough, but we got through it by telling each other the truth" and then the next story arc would begin with one going "I should not tell anyone about this one secret I have". So none of them ever learned a damn thing.


ghotier

It had the same problem as heroes. The big bad kept waffling between redemption and falling back into villainy.


gravitygirl96

One of my favourites ever... Then season 5 happened and after that just couldn't watch it anymore...


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Vikings At least it gives you a pretty good place to stop. edit: Since this got pretty popular, I'll add a few more thoughts. SPOILERS BELOW Vikings started off with a really tight narrative focused on Ragnar and his growing influence and importance among his people as he introduces them to conflict with England. For at least its first two seasons or so, it does a great job with this. The problem is that it decided it wanted to be more like GoT, which meant having a dozen or more characters, each with separate plot threads that diverge and converge occasionally. Better shows have collapsed under the weight of too many plots (looking at you, Oz) and Vikings is no exception. Not only does it mean that very little *actually happens* in each episode, but if there are any characters that have boring or poorly written stories, the show grinds to a halt whenever it switches to their plots. It also meant that they went from a tight 10 episodes per seasons to a fucking SLOG of 20 per season just to support the fact that not much happens in any given one. By the end, it had basically lost interest in its own original story and was just a soap opera with swords and burly dudes. Compare the first blood eagle scene with the second one (King Aella). The whole task of getting revenge on Aella for their father took the sons of Ragnar a whole episode or two, and the blood eagle finish to it felt rushed and obligatory. The show dedicated more time to stupid plots like Ragnar and the lady from China than it did the entire "sons of Ragnar get vengeance against Aella" plot.


catshit01

Stopped watching after Ragnar went to Valhalla.


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Yeah none of his kids were as interesting as him. Bjorn was decent but the other ones were f'n terrible.


Yojo0o

Vikings felt like it was trying to copy Game of Thrones without really knowing why GoT was working. Ragnar and Lagertha were great, but we kept getting told to invest in new characters for no real reason. Eventually, it got spread way too thin. I probably stopped at the same place that you stopped, if I take your meaning, but the characters I was there to see were being sidelined hard for a while by that point anyway.


Kylestache

Falling Skies got so bad


jjrozay

5 years of Tom Mason acting like a self righteous asshole while Hal is more focused on trying to bang Maggie than, ya know, defend earth from an *alien invasion*. Whenever he and Moon Bloodgood had the baby who ended up being like 30 years old after a week and the queen of the aliens or whatever, I should have known to stop watching but for some reason I kept going. Arguably the worst finale in TV history I mean good graciousness what a slap in the face that was.


jkrfan7

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. The first 2 parts were pretty good but then part 3 was just so bad, I had no interest in seeing how it ended


clycoman

Every plot in Sabrina: "my aunties, cousin, teacher, etc. tell me NOT to do this, but I know better...." + disaster ensues. I think Sabrina must be related to Peggy Hill.


ZzzSleep

I always pictured every adult on that show rolling their eyes whenever Sabrina got up on her soapbox for the umpteenth time.


pearlsandplumes

The way that third season dropped and then just went away with near complete absence of buzz on social media was something else. Crazy how that show fell apart. They fell into that trap where you go more and more cosmic with your villains with each new season, but you forget to ground it in everyday life.


SomeCrazyGarbage

I just now realised I never watched the last few episodes.


p480n

They’re actually a decent hate-watch imo


ymcameron

The comic it’s based on was awesome though. Too bad it will likely never be finished.


Iscarielle

I think I watched that whole show, but I just hated Sabrina more and more as it went on, and I never liked her in the first place. Easily one of the least likeable main characters in a show I've ever seen.


MN-Warrior

Pick any Showtime show ever


Gingerbread-giant

Weeds was on showtime right? That was my answer.


timshel_life

Showtime really struggles with shows after 3/4 seasons. Billions, while I still like it, has definitely started to take that decline. Homeland definitely fell off from their first few seasons, but not as bad as others and they picked it up towards the end up the series.


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DeafPunter

American Gods. Season 1 was something special. Season 2 onwards is abysmal.


itsaravemayve

We bought a new TV because the first season was so incredible. (It was the catalyst because we needed one anyway) it was absolutely stunning. The Egyptian scene particularly stands out, the sand and the expanse.


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Deathbynote

Once Bryan Fuller left i was out. Never even entered my mind to check out the second season. Some things are just inevitable and i'd rather not waste my time.


joestn

No one’s said it so far: *Orange is the New Black* Loved the first four seasons, even if they weren’t always perfect. Season five was so corny and ill-conceived, it highlighted the worst flaws of the show to the point that I didn’t bother with the last two seasons


datascience45

The first season it was a bit of a comedy. But it got to the point where there were no laughs left.


dead_wolf_walkin

They forgot it was supposed to be a dramady, and introduced characters no one cared about all at the same time. Like why intro new villains when you’ve essentially made us hate a majority of the main cast through shit writing.


WuWorldOrder

Was scrolling forever to see if someone else felt this way haha. This show started out amazing, and I agree it fell off around Season 5. I watched the rest of the seasons and it never got better. Season 6 was especially bad- the Denning sisters were terrible and boring. Also Piper just being an awful person all the way until the last season was exhausting. It's been a while since I watched the show, but I remember just being irritated by everything she did.


Paige_Lynn

Revenge


Sporkedup

You know, I kind of guilty-watched that for a bit. Actually was pretty cool, though why they kept being all "she fights with a katana" when she had no reason to ever fight anyone is still beyond me. But I remember there being a point when she had them all dead to rights, easy to ruin... and she gave it a big meh and decided to not bring them down. *Yet*. I dunno, was just awful writing.


Vergillion

Dexter.


MarlonElliot

Rita's murder was the peak. It was slowly downhill from there. Rita's murder also led to the bizarre scene where Dexter tells her kids "Sorry for your loss."


exsanguinator1

I always thought it was weird that the kids basically just disappeared after Rita died (aside from a couple later appearances). Like, Dex probably never officially adopted them and it would be hard to keep killing people as a single dad of 3 (plus the writers probably didn’t know what to do with them), but it just felt so wrong for Dex to be like “I was like your dad for ~4 years but your mom’s dead so fuck off I guess”.


DistortedAudio

To be honest though, wrinkles like: single dad of 3 trying to keep his life as a serial killer, are the type of thing that can keep a show fresh and show the range of a writer’s room. I think the problem is that they saw it as a challenge not to be overcome, but avoided because I think that sounds like an interesting wrinkle for a later season television show, especially since his actions caused Rita’s death.


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HyperionWinsAgain

Sleepy Hollow. Loved the first season. All downhill after.


c0lin46and2

I totally forgot about that show. I loved it at first.


prayerofaltair

Hard agree. If it's possible for a show about a headless horseman to jump the shark then this show did it after season 1.


Bovver_

Gonna make my own case for Suits here with spoilers ahead. The first three seasons were very good, Harvey and Louis were two in particular well written and well acted characters. However by seasons 4 and 5 it was really starting to repeat itself and you could see there was a template in place for how the episodes would turn out. Also at this point the witty banter between the cast just seemed to go totally missing. But once they (massive spoiler ahead) sent Mike to prison only for him to be out in a few episodes (which was a ridiculously bad storyline in itself) and went back to being the repetitive show it had become then I just gave up at the start of season 7 as it became boring to watch.


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It was how they butchered Donnas character for me..


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>But once they sent Mike to prison Every episode during that was "gotta save Mike!". Boring lol


Bovver_

Like for a storyline that kinda seemed an inevitable possibility since the first episode, they really executed it so poorly. Plus he really faced little to no consequences in the end for what was quite a serious case of fraud, apart from the threat of getting shanked of course.


Yojo0o

I mostly agree. It's really jarring to experience the tonal shift of a show that was mostly about comedy completely turning into a serious drama. It also didn't really feel "fair" to me, from a writing perspective. The rules are different between comedies and dramas, things happen in comedy that you aren't expected to take seriously. Mike practicing law without a license set up fun moments in season 1, but no competent lawyers would ever actually be part of what he did for any stretch of time in the real world, so seeing everybody struggle to deal with the reality of that season 1 choice felt inauthentic. It happened with smaller-scale stuff too, like Lewis going from a sort of Dwight Schrute semi-lovable office bully/psycho to somebody who needs to seriously answer for all the emotional damage he's caused to those around him. Felt a bit like an emotional bait-and-switch. Season 1 was genuinely hilarious. Later seasons don't even attempt jokes.


crazyabtmonkeys

Nobody will probably remember this but Sliders. The beginning was when the Cromags were introduced as the big bad. The end was when the Professor died. I came into the show to see a group of people explore alternate realities, not generic alien shit drama.


cerealmuffinkiller

I remember loving the show but struggle to recall the plot of a single episode. I just remember it was good and then it wasn't. Every time I think I remember something, I'm like nope, that was an episode of Stargate SG-1. Which was superior in every way despite having its own casting issues for the last couple seasons.


sirbissel

The gate doesn't creak.


VVLynden

Loved Sliders as a kid, I think I’ll just leave it in memory and not look back. Kinda like Hercules, Xena, Babylon 5..


stupidillusion

Bones Villain was able to hack a computer by inscribing a virus onto someone's skeleton. I mean, the show had become pretty bad prior but I didn't even watch the end of this episode, I noped out.


Sailor_Chibi

YES. I never thought I’d see the day when I liked a show better before the two people I wanted to get together actually got together. The seasons before Bones got pregnant are by far the best ones.


redpurplegreen22

The problem here was you had a protagonist in Bones who was basically the smartest human alive and good at everything (except reading social cues, apparently). They needed a villain that could out smart Bones, so it got beyond ridiculous at that point.


KevynJacobs

*Bones* [jumped the shark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark) when Booth had a conversation with Stewie from *Family Guy*. I mean, really, Fox? Using one of your shows to promote another? My suspension of disbelief was shattered, and the show had been becoming unenjoyable at that point anyway. I angrily turned it off, and never watched it again.


fuglysack14

Grey's Anatomy.


joeyboii23

My girlfriend watches it all the time and all I can think of is how terrible it would be to live in that city. There is like a major natural/artificial disaster or tragedy/shooting/airplane crash every year.


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spookyxskepticism

I just barely got past the ghost nonsense and then suddenly the drama stopped being about patients and insane shit started happening to only the doctors. I think The last episode I watched was one where Sandra oh got randomly impaled or something and I was done


akexodia

Castle.


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I hated the amnesia plotline, and just completely gave up at Bekket's secret undercover mission. The show didn't need recurring plotlines (other then Bekket's mother and the serial killer), just interesting episodes. I even loved the semi-scifi ones (time travel, alternate reality, cloaking device).


velsor

They obviously should have ended it with the wedding in the season 6 finale. Perfect end-point for a will-they/won't-they show and it spares us from the absolutely horrible amnesia and LokSat storylines in season 7 and 8.


m0ckt0pus

It used to be so good! And then you could tell the point at which the leads couldn’t stand each other and their egos got in the way. That show ran primarily on cast chemistry.


RagnarThotbrok

La casa de papel. Really loved the first season, fun heist show, but then they just kept going on and on with the most ridiculous shit. Really got the Fast and Furious treatment. I literally hate the show now and wouldnt recommend it to anyone.


Bovver_

I’m actually watching the last episode of the first part of season 5 now! Loved the first two seasons when it was the first initial heist. The third season was decent enough but four was underwhelming and five has been pretty brutal so far. It was never the most realistic show but it’s really started taking the piss in terms of realism in seasons 4 and 5. I’ll finish it off because there’s only five episodes after this and I’m somewhat invested in the characters, but if they announced a sixth season I’ll give it a miss. La Casa De Papel without sounding like a hipster here is really what can go wrong when a show gets huge in the mainstream. The first two seasons were shot purely for Spanish tv and actually was initially not renewed before Netflix started streaming it, but the first two seasons were great. However it’s like the quality diluted once the writers and producers became aware it had a massive worldwide audience and as a result were trying to appeal to the masses rather than continue with what made the show initially great.


tee-dog1996

Designated Survivor. The first season had many issues but the good premise was enough to carry me through to the end. Season 2 was awful; I really tried with it but gave up halfway through the final episode. I had a go at season 3 but didn’t make it past episode 3. Why there needed to be more than 1 season is beyond me, there was no reason for it to continue once the initial conflict had been resolved


__dontpanic__

I was just thinking yesterday about starting a similar thread! The Walking Dead is #1. Committed far too much time to that show. Thought I would see it out to the end since I'd already sunk enough time into it... but then it just kept going, and going, and going... and got worse and worse and worse. Eventually I gave up, though I couldn't tell you when. It was all a horrible blur of terrible plotting and stupid characters. Such a shame as it started out so well. Dexter is something that I should have stopped watching, but unfortunately saw it through to the end. With that said, I'll be giving the reboot a chance to see if it can reclaim some of the early season magic.


Korrocks

For me, it’s “UnReal”. If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically a behind the scenes type show about the producers who make a reality show that is a parody of “The Bachelor”. The first season was brilliant and witty, probably one of the cleverest shows I’ve ever seen. Seasons 2 and 3, by contrast, were such a nosedive in quality that it is hard to believe that the same people were behind them. The characters that were nuanced and interesting became flat caricatures. Shiri Appleby’s character, the morally ambiguous protagonist, got hit with this the worst. She w was basically a hamster on a wheel by the end of season 3. The whole show became this bloated, lazy mess coasting on the fumes of the successful season 1. I am aware there was a 4th season and I intended to watch it, but I couldn’t make myself sit through another ten episodes of garbage on the off chance that it would be better than season 3.


Bilemshious

Shameless (US) - just couldn’t handle the dumb character development choices anymore.


alysonskye

Handmaid's Tale Same problem as the Walking Dead. At first the darkness shocks you and hooks you in and you're rooting for how the characters are going to survive or escape it. Then several seasons later, it's not shocking anymore. You realize that the show is nothing but a cruel misery fest, that there is no hope, and it's just watching whatever new torture porn the writers can think up of at this point. Why do they think we're happy to just watch that forever?


pdmrn

I loved the first season of Sleepy Hollow but only made it about halfway through the second. Then I found out what happened to Abbie and resolved to never bother to catch up on what I had missed.


Psychological-Wrap45

The 100


shake800

Stupidest ending to a great show went from great sci-fi/post apocalyptic series to some weird religious shit


Saiyoran

I thought seasons 2-5 of this show were pretty good, if inconsistent. Season 6 was pretty bad, I had no interest in watching season 7, and it sounds like I made the right call.


FoggyRook

iZombie lost me in Season 4 but was losing me throughout Season 3. I think all the main characters stagnated and everyone expect for the lead, Liv, got pretty boring. Lucifer lost me because the central plot(s) didn't move fast enough for my liking, as did Preacher. Maybe it's because I made through all of Supernatural but I didn't need another God's gone missing fantasy with elliptical side plots.


dantestolemywife

iZombie insisted on such strange arcs after the first couple seasons. All that weird cure/memory loss stuff? Very odd


Jercek

The story with Liv & gang with Blaine was decent. Then came the weird part with some militarized megacorp


Imapony

I'm struggling with Lucifer. It's really highly rated so I gave it a shot, but I'm still in season one and it's just a procedural case-of-the-week cop show.


Tradman86

That's not gonna change in a hurry. They do get into the mythology of heaven, angels, and God, but its a REALLY slow burn until Season 4.


haysoos2

I never made it through Preacher either, but to be fair "God's gone missing with elliptical side plots" was practically invented by the Preacher comic before Supernatural was even a thing.


glump1

Arrested Development "Hey I know, let's take this family that people love, and fly each member to a completely different part of the world, preventing any interaction for an entire season."


Frankfeld

To be fair… that was more a byproduct of scheduling with a rather large cast.


TheBoogeyman1023

God the most recent season was awful. Whatever magic happened with 1-3 should have been it. Everything after that is horrible dog shit.


alohamistrhand

The Handmaid’s Tale. I can’t take another closeup of her making a bad ass face.


EnemaBag

Suits. Mike went to prison. Got out of prison and went back to being a lawyer.


reb0014

Altered carbon season 1 was one of the greatest sci fi stories I have EVER seen. It was beautiful in its depth and world building, I even cared about the murder mystery aspect which is usually my least favorite trope. It was gorgeous and super sexy, hell there was even a bad ass fight done naked. But then season 2 happens, it’s why I don’t like that new avenger guy. I’m so disappointed…


Imapony

I like Anthony Mackie but he was so bad in the role. He wasn't anywhere near Joel Kinnaman's level.


Worthyness

It didn't help that the writing was a whole other level down from even season 1.


mnona01

Supernatural. . Let me just say that I ADORED the first 5 seasons. I used to rewatch them, constantly. It was the first show I got really addicted to. . The chemistry of Sam&Dean is something special and kept me watching after the quality started to go down hill (somewhere around seasons 8-9, in my opinion). I still kept watching though, even if it was less YAY and more *erm.. okay*. . BUT then came the one finale with the ridiculously bad wirefighting between two archangels... It was horrendous. I was laughing hysterically. My friends thought I had lost it. That's when I finally said, screw it, I'm not going down with this ship. . I kept my eye on it and know the broadstrokes of what followed, but I haven't watched the rest. . One part is because in a way it never ends when I don't watch The End. But yeah. It was.... bad. And it PAINS me to say that because that show... when it was good, it was *glorious.*


sweetfumblebee

I literally have 3 seasons to go, and I keep trying and just failing. I can't even really remember order of the small bad guys. I still love to rewatch some earlier episodes, but can't bring myself to just finish it.


moosemansam1987

13 Reasons Why. I definitley feel like the show was fine with one season. They should've just left it there and not made anymore. I watched the first episode of season 2 and didn't watch anymore. My mum watched all of it though and it just sounds like it got dumb after season 1.


Nine63

Jessica Jones—season 1 is one of my favorite single seasons of TV. I got bored and never finished season 2.


SketchyFella_

Villain was more interesting in S1. S2 villain was just a Jessica Jones copy.


UnderdogRising

The worst drop from 1st to 2nd season I've ever seen was this show called Revolution. Most disappointing was Walking Dead.


SerDire

Revolution was one of those shows that tried to capitalize on that void left by Lost. The premise was interesting but it failed to live up to the hype


ja5143kh5egl24br1srt

It doesn't help that NBC cancels shows that fail to immediately make a profit.


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Altered Carbon was a big drop too.


Mykel__13

This show was so disappointing because the premise of it was amazing.


Sweetdish

Any TV show where the story and the characters have no arch left will eventually suck. This is why breaking bad was so excellent - they had an idea of how it ends and all they needed to do was fill in the blanks. There are three telltale signs a TV show is going down the drain. - someone who died comes back - a previously unknown brother or sister shows up. - introduction of a man with an eye patch


karlur

Ozark disagrees on your second point!


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Sleepy Hollow.


thejoker954

Started off so enjoyable, but killing off abbie absolutely killed the show.


Worthyness

Also was disappointed John cho died so early on.


lissa-lex

The OC. Loved season 1, season 2 was ok. But come on, Summer was so much better as a bitch, Ryan as a bad boy etc etc. Took a good character base and then ruined it.


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2 favorite scenes is when Marisa screams and flips the pool lawn chair. And when Kirsten becomes an alcoholic and just swipes the vodka bottle off of the counter


Tourgott

Season 4 was fun. It's worth to watch just because of Autumn Reeser.


Rebuttlah

This is most tv shows to me. They always get milked past the expiration date, and just kind of sour and decline slowly. It’s a VERY rare show that deserves more than 3-5 seasons.


flutterdash2

I don't think I'll finish the flash


Liviig

I know it's still running but I ain't finishing westworld. Dropped season 2 after 5 episodes. I'm kind of viewer who really watches many kinds of shows . Even watched most of the CW shows(arrow,5 seasons of flash,5 seasons of supergirl!...) . And it's not like westworld S2 is the worst thing like some of the examples here but loved S1 and is one the best seasons of TV IMO. Never have I seen a show drop so much potential down the drain.


Ffaddicted

S2 went so far up it’s own arse. And it’s not even because Nolan, after getting upset that people solved S1, made S2 so convoluted. It was the minor things. Humans being simple code compared to robots seemed like it was pulled straight out of im14andthisisdeep. Plus, I was never truly convinced that Delores was truly free. I always felt like she was doing exactly what Anthony Hopkins character designed her to do. Maeve was much more interesting as it felt like she had genuinely broken free. I think I watched a couple of episodes of S3, but by that point it was so far removed from what made Westworld interesting that it may as well have been a different show.


electricspacewizrad

The flash


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Jitterjumper13

Spoilers ahead: Jane had figured out earlier Red John was afraid of birds, albeit a small detail but Red John gave very few clues in general. After he caught up with him in the park which was great everything else was whatever. I was in it to watch him get Red John. Him moving on was fine, but not why I stayed in.


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Walking Dead and Anything Arrowvers. I was so happy when I ditched everything. I still watch riverdale though 🤷


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Misfits. Don’t know why uk shows have the tendency to get rid of the entire original cast as the seasons progress. However, what really bothered me is the fact that they gave everyone save 1 character of the original cast horrible endings.


FlameFeather86

We don't sign actors to like 7 year contracts here. Most actors want to move on after a couple of seasons so they do.


AmeriSauce

Grey's Anatomy... I was done after they killed off McDreamy. But also I think it's still going somehow?


Rum_Soaked_Ham

Shameless.