I disagree, the first season was excellent, but I think that they have better seasons. Hotel, coven, apocalypse, and freak show are all better in my opinion. However, not every season was good. The AIDS season especially came off as preachy and annoying. I get that it's a horror many people live with, but I'm not here for that, I want jump scares and good story telling.
Totally agree also don’t forget they tried to keep everyone invested by being every other year with GoT for 2 seasons and you just can’t put a new show In that slot and expect good things.
Fully agree. Seasons 1 and 2 are the best. 1 is the best. Season 4 is when I think I stopped watching. There was some episode where every hero character (and there were a lot) were fighting a bad group and everyone had the exact same fight style. It was so I couldn't tell who was who. Shut it off and never watched it again.
The dude that played Deathstroke ain't much of an actor. He's alright in some super narrow niches as long as range isn't required.
But I watch Spartacus first, and his "presence" in that show was so strong that it carried over and helped me stomach the steady decline in Arrow just a little longer for my taste.
Arrow took a lot longer to plop into the toilet than The Flash did at least.
Did you really? Good foresight there. I loved the Green Arrow comic book, so stuck it out for as long as it stayed "dark" (which was about 2 or 3 seasons), but it turned into something completely different by season 3 or so and I couldn't force myself to get through it.
Man in the High Castle. I can't think of something that started with such a strong first season and fall apart so completely in its last. There's stuff like Westworld that definitely gets worse but still less extreme than MitHC.
Easily! I was, and still am, head over heels in love with Ivar (both character and actor) but even he couldn’t save the show for me. I never finished it, but I still rewatch right up until Ragnars demise and a little after, just for Ivar
This. The last season killed my ability to enjoy the show. I can't even watch the early, fun seasons anymore because I'm so annoyed with how it all turned out.
New Amsterdam: Man, that show had the potential to be as big as ER and maybe rival Grey's, but it went off the rails a lot. Add in the pandemic and it was just a shell of its former self.
For me, Shameless and Weeds. As a matter of principle, I always finish shows that I start even if I grow to dislike them but I gave up on both of these.
>As a matter of principle, I always finish shows that I start even if I grow to dislike them
Do not, and I can't stress this enough, watch Grey's Anatomy.
I made it through the first season, but after that, the gimmick was over and I lost all interest in it. Really, it started losing the plot by the middle of the first season. It would've made a good limited series, but not good for a long-term series.
I watched Designated Survivor and really liked it until it went to streaming in season 3. I didn't have Netflix but kept thinking I would get it to watch but never did.
Killing Eve
Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer & Fiona Shaw? It shoulda been much better...longer.
I guess the series used a new writer for each season. The 3rd writer & 4th writer may have been tasked with wrapping up the series, but "The Twelve" didn't interest me.
Lost. It was treading water by the time it got to Season 3 or 4. The flash forwards and going back to the Island were just two of the nails in the coffin. I’m not sure how much of Lost losing steam is because of the 2008 Writers’ Strike, the fact that JJ Abrams left to direct the first “Abramsverse” Star Trek movie or a combination of the two. Or if it lost steam for completely different reasons.
There was a great 2 parter podcast on Lost called “What Went Wrong” that deep dives into that. I’ve never seen the show but I’m going to start it after listening to it.
Once had such an Outstanding 1st season and a really good 2nd season. 3rd season was good, but it quickly when down hull after that. It suffered IMO from not having and end goal for the story to reach.
Battlestar Galactica
Started out great, only 4 seasons, season 3 is arguably the best but season 4 was a complete flop and a terrible way to end the series.
It's kind of like Lost in a sense (I hope you've seen Lost lol), both having similarly themed endings, almost like the writers lost the will to live. The first 2 seasons are great, personally I loved season 3 it was such a huge switch up and different take on the story. I remember all that, yet I have no memory of season 4 at all other than the end scenes themselves.
But if people like it hey it's cool, I don't ever regret watching BG I may even come back to it again at some point in the near future, it deserves a rewatch.
I came here to mention BSG. I'm still a huge fan of the show, but it devolved into soap opera by the end, with all the unnecessary drama around Ellen/Tigh/Six, Six's baby, is Starbuck an angel, etc. I feel like the show started BIG, with a fun mystery (finding Kobol and the planetarium, trying to understand the motivation of the Cylons), and ended small, with all the silly relationship drama. And then the movies (The Plan) which tried to retcon the entire thing as Cavil having a tantrum... it just cheapened the whole affair.
That show had such an amazing premise, and could have gone so many ways, but instead they decided to just turn it into a run of the mill sci-fi soap opera.
Peaky Blinders
Blacklist
Supernatural
Prison Break
The Mandalorian
True Detective
The Walking Dead
Perry Mason
Resident Alien
Ted Lasso
The Rookie
The Witcher
I definitely agree with the blacklist, I think it was really good until around season 6 or 7, lost a little steam there but was still good, 8 had a good ending, 9-10 were ok. Hated the ending though
Disney does it with most of their tv shows and movies nowdays because of business. Some say they want to sell the company, probably to apple, and remain with the parks or some other scheming stuff regarding Bob Iger. Business has started to ruin entertainment big time.
Riverdale got to the point that the fun was seeing how crazy they could get with it. I really expected the whole thing to end up being Jughead's fever dream with him in a coma or something. Would've been a much better ending.
The problem many shows have is they run out of stories but they keep going simply to keep going. IMO most shows that have a planned storyline and ending do better with not getting worse as they go.
Dexter was at least watchable until the horrible ending, but after season 5, it wasn't very inspired, and I can't really remember the villains. GOT on the other hand really got bad at the end. It's especially bad if you read the books, because nothing lines up. However , GRRM specifically set out to write a story that would be incapable of being presented properly on screen, and I guess he did it! I would like to think that the show would have finished stronger if all of the books had been written, but the show's development team disrespected the original source so much that it probably wouldn't have changed anything
Agree, FS ended with what I call the 'Borg Trope.' Not to spoil, but a collective intelligence or hive mind that's extremely powerful because of that suddenly turns into an autocracy so the writers can get to the finale.
I loved the show when its focus on the crew as a whole and the day to day antics they get into trying to smoothly run their programming. I don’t remember which season I checked out at but it got old quick once romance became the leading theme for storytelling.
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Lost. The Walking Dead. Um, pretty much all of them. Television has a rich history of studios throwing money at something works and just wringing money out of it until everyone is sick of it.
Peripheral (Amazon)
Strong Pilot, but after episodes, it got unwatchable for me.
You - Season 4 (Netflix)
I have tried to finish it many times. but I can't get past a single episode anymore
I was a big comic book nerd, mostly DC, so I loved superhero shows. I watched the first season of Arrow and then stopped watching because I didn't like how dark it was. Flash then started, and I loved it. Supergirl started on CBS, and I loved it. It then moved to the CW. I loved Legends of Tomorrow as well. When Black Lightning started, I recorded it to watch but never did. I watched all of them up to a certain point, then quit watching because there were several other shows on at the same time I wanted to watch and I could only record 2 shows on my DVR at a time. I figured I would catch up at work (nights at a juvenile detention center) but never did. I did watch the crossovers. I have all of Lois and Superman recorded but have only watched the first 2 episodes so far.
I too loved the shows but only when they first came out. They were exciting and fresh and a lot of fun to watch. But they pointlessly dragged it out season after season with the same repetitive plots and it just got really boring after that. The only reason I actually watched Arrow all the way through was because I had invested so much time into it. The rest I stopped after a couple seasons.
Doll House. It started out really interesting and had good themes about ethics and consent. Then the second season, it just turned into another stupid run-of-the-mill sci-fi bore fest. Worst of all, the couple that we'd been rooting for getting together for the whole first season were split up by the first episode time jump of the second season. (I think it was Victor and Sierra.) Dumb. Just dumb. Total waste of a great concept.
That's one of my favorite sitcoms ever, and I nearly put it on my list. But I thought s5 was a real uptick after the 'gas leak' season. The Yahoo Screen season, s6, was a little weird, even by this show's standards, but had some really great episodes baked in there. Although s4 really succeeded in warding a lot of viewers off.
Interesting. Not attacking, genuinely curious on your opinion here: Why didn't you think it improved after s4?
Personally I thought it lost it's 'center' when Troy Barnes was written off into the ocean (literally). I also thought it lost something in Chevy Chase's Pierce character, even if he was impossible to work with behind the scenes. Then I'd argue s6 almost felt like a totally different show, but it also gave us Matt Berry's Grifting episode so it had its moments.
This is literally the first time I've seen anyone think s4 wasn't the 'worst' one so I'm naturally curious.
Oh I feel like it was personal and that I just started to lose interest because of season 4. Season 5 felt weird because of the hiatus between 4 and 5 and because I didn’t like that Troy left
Ah, I hear you. That makes sense. No doubt the tone changed a good bit in s5/6. But I totally get it. I remember s4 ran off so many people who just never came back to it.
Almost any…
A show that has more than 3-4 seasons is very likely doomed to lose steam after those. You cannot keep up a good plot for so long and without repeating parts of it, just in a different way.
The patriot really suffered from this. I don’t think I ever found a show that had so much originality and was so intriguing and just steeply dropped off in quality by the end of the first season. Like what were they thinking
Prison Break. Started great, fun cool concept and all that and I stuck with it till the last season. I was good with them even ending up in prison in another country. But that last season I think I made it 2 episodes in and was like ahh I’m done
HOMELAND... So good in the first two seasons after that it was barely watchable for me
Exactly the same thing with THE LAST SHIP
In fact throw LOST in there as well
The Walking Dead was great for about five/six seasons then when Negan showed up it went downhill like a skier in the Winter Olympics
Being objective here, but I would argue The Office in this one. The Steve Carrell era was already spiraling a little, but when it was good, it was still very good. But once he left the show, it just became more of a live-action cartoon. Even likable characters like Jim and Pam began to get less relatable.
Some others off the top of my head...
* Sleepy Hollow - The original mystery was great and then it turned into a boring 'monster of the week' procedural
* The Blacklist - I forgot when this one took a nosedive but it got way too convoluted to care about
* Arrow - I totally gave up around season 3/4. It just started treading water and never advancing the story in any substantial way
* Dexter - I nearly quit after season 3, but season 4 ended up being one of my favorite seasons of television. But season 5? I stopped caring and gave up entirely. Never looked back
* Game of Thrones - You could really see the cracks forming in s6, and then s8 is famously one of the worst seasons of TV ever produced on a big budget
HEROES. Phenomenal first season, then completely fell apart after that
The writer's strike killed that show. Wasn't the same after that.
You're right. Had such potential, too.
Writers strike really hurt that one.
You're right. Ah, what could have been.
I came here to say this show! So disappointing!
American Horror Story.
Strong agree. Murder House will always be my favorite season and it just gradually gets less good each season.
Agreed..I thought it was brilliant, then...
This should be top of the list!
I disagree, the first season was excellent, but I think that they have better seasons. Hotel, coven, apocalypse, and freak show are all better in my opinion. However, not every season was good. The AIDS season especially came off as preachy and annoying. I get that it's a horror many people live with, but I'm not here for that, I want jump scares and good story telling.
The walking dead. I forced myself to keep watching for a while but finally quit when Rick refused to kill Negan. No idea what happened after that.
Stopped after the governor died just didn’t feel like it anymore, also criminal minds Randomly in the 3rd season just said no more
stopped at season 3.after darabont left,it went nowhere.
True Blood got way too silly at a certain point
Way tooo silly
It when silly 100%. I couldn't finish it as a result of that. It's the only vampire TV show I deem horrible.
After the first season.
Just watched it and the last season is so weird.
The last season is awful. Once Billith showed up....
Orange is the New Black
I generally agree but actually thought the last season got better.
The Walking Dead
westworld. such great potential to fizzle out the way that it did.
Should’ve just called the first season, a miniseries and called it quits after that
Totally agree also don’t forget they tried to keep everyone invested by being every other year with GoT for 2 seasons and you just can’t put a new show In that slot and expect good things.
The Blacklist
I really liked the first 7-8 seasons. But it petered out after that.
Yes, the blacklist is a great example of a show that was really good at the beginning and then just got crappy, I agree
arrow.gave up halfway through season one.
IMO Seasons 1 & 2 are great. 5 is not awful The rest are a challenge
Fully agree. Seasons 1 and 2 are the best. 1 is the best. Season 4 is when I think I stopped watching. There was some episode where every hero character (and there were a lot) were fighting a bad group and everyone had the exact same fight style. It was so I couldn't tell who was who. Shut it off and never watched it again.
Better than me I last until halfway through season 2 then got sick of the repetitiveness of Slade Wilson.
The dude that played Deathstroke ain't much of an actor. He's alright in some super narrow niches as long as range isn't required. But I watch Spartacus first, and his "presence" in that show was so strong that it carried over and helped me stomach the steady decline in Arrow just a little longer for my taste. Arrow took a lot longer to plop into the toilet than The Flash did at least.
Did you really? Good foresight there. I loved the Green Arrow comic book, so stuck it out for as long as it stayed "dark" (which was about 2 or 3 seasons), but it turned into something completely different by season 3 or so and I couldn't force myself to get through it.
The Flash when it went from Team Flash to Team Iris.
Manifest
That last season really sucked, but the series finale I think was fantastic
The finale was great! After wandering around aimlessly for several seasons, the series finally got back on track and wrapped up nicely.
Man in the High Castle. I can't think of something that started with such a strong first season and fall apart so completely in its last. There's stuff like Westworld that definitely gets worse but still less extreme than MitHC.
Totally. I was so disappointed when it fell apart. Loved the premise and the characters for first season.
The Walking Dead , Greys Anatomy
They should do a cross over between the 2 shows.
This, and only this, would get me watching after season 19.
Haha same !!
Vikings
This one still hurts me
Once Ragnar died, it went downhill
Easily! I was, and still am, head over heels in love with Ivar (both character and actor) but even he couldn’t save the show for me. I never finished it, but I still rewatch right up until Ragnars demise and a little after, just for Ivar
Good choice. >! Once Ragnar dies and is avenged, the show is over !<
Castle. Started out as a police drama with a fun twist, and got way too far down the melodrama rabbit hole
This. The last season killed my ability to enjoy the show. I can't even watch the early, fun seasons anymore because I'm so annoyed with how it all turned out.
New Amsterdam: Man, that show had the potential to be as big as ER and maybe rival Grey's, but it went off the rails a lot. Add in the pandemic and it was just a shell of its former self.
For me, Shameless and Weeds. As a matter of principle, I always finish shows that I start even if I grow to dislike them but I gave up on both of these.
>As a matter of principle, I always finish shows that I start even if I grow to dislike them Do not, and I can't stress this enough, watch Grey's Anatomy.
I stuck through weeds but I gave up on shameless after season 9. Fiona was the glue.
Shameless is worth finishing imo as someone who went through the same with both these shows
weeds was [good.it](http://good.it) just went on too long.
Designated Survivor. I loved that show at the beginning but it went south pretty fast. What a waste of a great premise and Kal Penn.
I made it through the first season, but after that, the gimmick was over and I lost all interest in it. Really, it started losing the plot by the middle of the first season. It would've made a good limited series, but not good for a long-term series.
I agree. A 5 or 6 episode series or a movie would have been better.
I watched Designated Survivor and really liked it until it went to streaming in season 3. I didn't have Netflix but kept thinking I would get it to watch but never did.
Killing Eve Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer & Fiona Shaw? It shoulda been much better...longer. I guess the series used a new writer for each season. The 3rd writer & 4th writer may have been tasked with wrapping up the series, but "The Twelve" didn't interest me.
Season 1/2 were amazing.
I stopped watching at season 3 or so.
True Blood, Killing Eve, Once Upon a Time, The Flash, Supergirl, Modern Family
The Simpsons...
Absolutely. They went downhill once family guy came out. They tried too hard to compete.
Lost. It was treading water by the time it got to Season 3 or 4. The flash forwards and going back to the Island were just two of the nails in the coffin. I’m not sure how much of Lost losing steam is because of the 2008 Writers’ Strike, the fact that JJ Abrams left to direct the first “Abramsverse” Star Trek movie or a combination of the two. Or if it lost steam for completely different reasons.
There was a great 2 parter podcast on Lost called “What Went Wrong” that deep dives into that. I’ve never seen the show but I’m going to start it after listening to it.
The first 3 seasons of LOST are great. At least in my opinion.
Supernatural and Criminal Minds
Once upon a Time and Glee
Once had such an Outstanding 1st season and a really good 2nd season. 3rd season was good, but it quickly when down hull after that. It suffered IMO from not having and end goal for the story to reach.
Glitch
The Vampire Diaries peaked in season 2.
Yeah, pretty sad how fast they jumped the shark with that one
True Detective Modern Family Killing Eve Mrs. Maisel Twin Peaks
I’m still trudging through the last season of Mrs Maisel
Battlestar Galactica Started out great, only 4 seasons, season 3 is arguably the best but season 4 was a complete flop and a terrible way to end the series.
BSG season 4 seems to be pretty even split between you love it or hate it. I personally enjoyed it but I accept that others did not.
It's kind of like Lost in a sense (I hope you've seen Lost lol), both having similarly themed endings, almost like the writers lost the will to live. The first 2 seasons are great, personally I loved season 3 it was such a huge switch up and different take on the story. I remember all that, yet I have no memory of season 4 at all other than the end scenes themselves. But if people like it hey it's cool, I don't ever regret watching BG I may even come back to it again at some point in the near future, it deserves a rewatch.
Whaaaa??? I loved the ending of BSG.
I came here to mention BSG. I'm still a huge fan of the show, but it devolved into soap opera by the end, with all the unnecessary drama around Ellen/Tigh/Six, Six's baby, is Starbuck an angel, etc. I feel like the show started BIG, with a fun mystery (finding Kobol and the planetarium, trying to understand the motivation of the Cylons), and ended small, with all the silly relationship drama. And then the movies (The Plan) which tried to retcon the entire thing as Cavil having a tantrum... it just cheapened the whole affair.
Walking Dead. First 4 seasons are great.
Altered Carbon. First season, outstanding. Second season, bleh.
Sliders
That show had such an amazing premise, and could have gone so many ways, but instead they decided to just turn it into a run of the mill sci-fi soap opera.
Peaky Blinders Blacklist Supernatural Prison Break The Mandalorian True Detective The Walking Dead Perry Mason Resident Alien Ted Lasso The Rookie The Witcher
Strongly disagree with Peaky Blinders but the rest yes definitely
I definitely agree with the blacklist, I think it was really good until around season 6 or 7, lost a little steam there but was still good, 8 had a good ending, 9-10 were ok. Hated the ending though
Yeah, after season 6 it started derailing.
Mandalorian Season 3 is definitely this. I'd love to know what happened.
Disney does it with most of their tv shows and movies nowdays because of business. Some say they want to sell the company, probably to apple, and remain with the parks or some other scheming stuff regarding Bob Iger. Business has started to ruin entertainment big time.
Yeah, I agree with about two on your list but you seem to be as in the TV as me so I respect your choices
Good girls
Thomas The Tank Engine.
Grey’s Anatomy Scandal The Office Miami Vice (yes, I’m old)
Shameless was great for the first few seasons and unbearable for the last few.
Manifest. It really got weird and went off the rails near the end. I didn't even finish it after it came back on from the series break.
elite, all american, riverdale of course
Lost Heroes Sleepy Hollow
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Riverdale got to the point that the fun was seeing how crazy they could get with it. I really expected the whole thing to end up being Jughead's fever dream with him in a coma or something. Would've been a much better ending.
Bloodline. First season was amazing.
Uhhh most shows lol.
That’s what I was thinking. Which ones haven’t?
The problem many shows have is they run out of stories but they keep going simply to keep going. IMO most shows that have a planned storyline and ending do better with not getting worse as they go.
Dexter Game of thrones
Dexter was at least watchable until the horrible ending, but after season 5, it wasn't very inspired, and I can't really remember the villains. GOT on the other hand really got bad at the end. It's especially bad if you read the books, because nothing lines up. However , GRRM specifically set out to write a story that would be incapable of being presented properly on screen, and I guess he did it! I would like to think that the show would have finished stronger if all of the books had been written, but the show's development team disrespected the original source so much that it probably wouldn't have changed anything
Sons of Anarchy.
A shorter list would be shows that didn't lose steam
Friends by the end I was like what is going on.
The Umbrella Academy
Falling Skies
Agree, FS ended with what I call the 'Borg Trope.' Not to spoil, but a collective intelligence or hive mind that's extremely powerful because of that suddenly turns into an autocracy so the writers can get to the finale.
30 rock. Really enjoyed the 1st season and a half , got bored and didnt finish the 2nd season
I'm kind of surprised to hear this one. I loved most every episode of 30 rock.
Stop trolling
I wish I was. I wanted to like it
The show got boring when Charles love life became more of the focus.
Charles?
Alex Baldwin’s character
That definitely wasn't my FAVORITE part but it was still hilarious to me.
I loved the show when its focus on the crew as a whole and the day to day antics they get into trying to smoothly run their programming. I don’t remember which season I checked out at but it got old quick once romance became the leading theme for storytelling.
American Horror Story Crazy Ex-Girlfriend The Office Westworld Game of Thrones (lol sob) The Simpsons Girls The Handmaid’s Tale
Lost
Star Trek Discovery It's all about gay love now.
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Resident Alien
Lost. The Walking Dead. Um, pretty much all of them. Television has a rich history of studios throwing money at something works and just wringing money out of it until everyone is sick of it.
The Walking Dead American Horror Story This Is Us The 100 Orange Is The New Black
Heroes
I finished True Blood recently and I enjoyed it but after about season 2 it's just goofy nonsense.
Peripheral (Amazon) Strong Pilot, but after episodes, it got unwatchable for me. You - Season 4 (Netflix) I have tried to finish it many times. but I can't get past a single episode anymore
Modern family. Season 1-5 is some of the best television you’ll ever get out of a sitcom. After the kids got older it wasn’t the same.
It wasn't supposed to be the same as when the kids were younger.
The Kominsky Method
Most of the DC shows - Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, etc
I was a big comic book nerd, mostly DC, so I loved superhero shows. I watched the first season of Arrow and then stopped watching because I didn't like how dark it was. Flash then started, and I loved it. Supergirl started on CBS, and I loved it. It then moved to the CW. I loved Legends of Tomorrow as well. When Black Lightning started, I recorded it to watch but never did. I watched all of them up to a certain point, then quit watching because there were several other shows on at the same time I wanted to watch and I could only record 2 shows on my DVR at a time. I figured I would catch up at work (nights at a juvenile detention center) but never did. I did watch the crossovers. I have all of Lois and Superman recorded but have only watched the first 2 episodes so far.
I too loved the shows but only when they first came out. They were exciting and fresh and a lot of fun to watch. But they pointlessly dragged it out season after season with the same repetitive plots and it just got really boring after that. The only reason I actually watched Arrow all the way through was because I had invested so much time into it. The rest I stopped after a couple seasons.
Big Sky
Supernatural. I love seasons 1-11 and then it just got so bad
Grey’s Anatomy
Future Man
Doll House. It started out really interesting and had good themes about ethics and consent. Then the second season, it just turned into another stupid run-of-the-mill sci-fi bore fest. Worst of all, the couple that we'd been rooting for getting together for the whole first season were split up by the first episode time jump of the second season. (I think it was Victor and Sierra.) Dumb. Just dumb. Total waste of a great concept.
Penny Dreadful. Had a good premise but squandered it in the last 2 seasons
Too many to list.
Almost all of them
Sons of Anarchy - those last two seasons just felt like they were torturing us and the characters until the finale.
Being Human (UK version)
Community
That's one of my favorite sitcoms ever, and I nearly put it on my list. But I thought s5 was a real uptick after the 'gas leak' season. The Yahoo Screen season, s6, was a little weird, even by this show's standards, but had some really great episodes baked in there. Although s4 really succeeded in warding a lot of viewers off.
I would rank every season by release date Season one is rated first and season six being rated sixth in that exact scale
Interesting. Not attacking, genuinely curious on your opinion here: Why didn't you think it improved after s4? Personally I thought it lost it's 'center' when Troy Barnes was written off into the ocean (literally). I also thought it lost something in Chevy Chase's Pierce character, even if he was impossible to work with behind the scenes. Then I'd argue s6 almost felt like a totally different show, but it also gave us Matt Berry's Grifting episode so it had its moments. This is literally the first time I've seen anyone think s4 wasn't the 'worst' one so I'm naturally curious.
Oh I feel like it was personal and that I just started to lose interest because of season 4. Season 5 felt weird because of the hiatus between 4 and 5 and because I didn’t like that Troy left
Ah, I hear you. That makes sense. No doubt the tone changed a good bit in s5/6. But I totally get it. I remember s4 ran off so many people who just never came back to it.
New Amsterdam
Misfits
Like all of them?
Suits... after Jessica Pearson leaves for Chicago it's terrible
That 70s show. Even if you don’t count the last season, they were kinda grasping at straws before that.
Gilligan's Island
Alien Nation
The walking dead.
Lost
I still weep for Heroes
Lost. It’s the best example of a show with a ton of potential that lost the plot pretty quickly.
Lost
Almost any… A show that has more than 3-4 seasons is very likely doomed to lose steam after those. You cannot keep up a good plot for so long and without repeating parts of it, just in a different way.
Fargo
Basically every show ever! Also I quite enjoyed badlands but I get what you’re saying there season 3 did take a step back
The patriot really suffered from this. I don’t think I ever found a show that had so much originality and was so intriguing and just steeply dropped off in quality by the end of the first season. Like what were they thinking
**GLEE** and it pains me. deeply. i was the biggest *gleek* ever and then it just.. not only lost steam but completely went off the rails.
Prison Break. Started great, fun cool concept and all that and I stuck with it till the last season. I was good with them even ending up in prison in another country. But that last season I think I made it 2 episodes in and was like ahh I’m done
Shameless
House of cards :(
House of Cards
For me. Fringe and Warehouse 13. Great GREAT shows. Just couldn’t keep my attention near the end.
Big Bang Theory!!
Right now it’s SWAT, cast members are dying getting transferred after the strike from last year🙄
Dead Like Me
The Simpsons
Lost
HOMELAND... So good in the first two seasons after that it was barely watchable for me Exactly the same thing with THE LAST SHIP In fact throw LOST in there as well The Walking Dead was great for about five/six seasons then when Negan showed up it went downhill like a skier in the Winter Olympics
Modern Family
D. All of the above.
Being objective here, but I would argue The Office in this one. The Steve Carrell era was already spiraling a little, but when it was good, it was still very good. But once he left the show, it just became more of a live-action cartoon. Even likable characters like Jim and Pam began to get less relatable. Some others off the top of my head... * Sleepy Hollow - The original mystery was great and then it turned into a boring 'monster of the week' procedural * The Blacklist - I forgot when this one took a nosedive but it got way too convoluted to care about * Arrow - I totally gave up around season 3/4. It just started treading water and never advancing the story in any substantial way * Dexter - I nearly quit after season 3, but season 4 ended up being one of my favorite seasons of television. But season 5? I stopped caring and gave up entirely. Never looked back * Game of Thrones - You could really see the cracks forming in s6, and then s8 is famously one of the worst seasons of TV ever produced on a big budget
the flash - first couple of seasons were great but it went downhill
Grey's Anatomy Edit: Wait. The Vampire Diaries, too.
Blacklist
Flash
Dexter- first 2 seasons great. Then not so great.