What TV show was amazing at first but became unwatchable for you later on?
The walking dead.
It started off as a great show and then just became a rinse and repeat of oh there are another group of human survivors.
We'll clash and then kill each other.
Glee.
The first season was a hilarious satire of stupid teen dramas.
Then it became a stupid teen drama.
The flash, arrow, anything produced by CW.
God they had so much potential, but these stupid scriptwriters and directors turned it into a teenage crying fest!
Literally every 5 minutes there would be an emotional dialogue!
Pretty much every CW tv show let’s be real
Once upon a Time.
The last season was awful!
House of Cards.
Scandal.
After a few seasons you’d wish Olivia would kick Fitz to the curb and move on already.
Dexter, series 1-4 were amazing, very hit and miss after that with a downright beep *terrible* finale.
Weeds
Once they left the first suburb (can't remembere the name) it just became about who Nancy would beep to get them out of a bad situation
Riverdale.
Season one was a genuinely okay teen drama.
Then it all went downhill.
Still can't stop watching the madness tho.
The Flash, it peaked in Season 2 and quickly nosedived
Misfits.
I eventually came to appreciate Rudy as a character, and I *did* push through to the end despite it not being good anymore, but once most of the original main cast was gone they just didn't have to plots to keep it going.
With the first group it was a decent enough premise - working class teenagers doing community service who get superpowers related to their character flaws.
The self-conscious one hears people's thoughts about her, the shy one becomes invisible, etc., which acted as a mechanism for developing the characters - learn to control the powers, learn to overcome the character flaw, simple but effective.
By the end it was just working class
teenagers who are sometimes in orange jumpsuits and also superpowers exist.
Their characters weren't interesting and their powers weren't thematically meaningful, so it just sort of meandered.
True blood...by season 3 it was GARBAGE.
But guess who watched it all?
No one has said Orange is the New Black yet.
Seasons 1 and 2 were great.
As soon as they brought Ruby Rose in the show started to slow for me that was not a good season.
Also I loved the first season of The Sinner, but I won’t watch season 2 or 3 because everyone says they are not worth the time.
Any of the CSI’s.
Once you get into about 3/4 seasons of them you start realizing how ridiculous some of these cases are.
The blacklist.
Was good in the start, but they took 5 seasons to go anywhere.
Sliders after they killed off Prof. Arturo
Pretty Little Liars
13 Reasons Why.
Should not have got more than one season
Once Upon A Time.
Initially loved it.
I think the problem with US tv shows is that they go on for way too long.
We should do them like novelas from Latin America.
Tell the story in 60-70 episodes and then resolve it.
Vikings.
After Ragnar died it wasn’t the same, no matter how many characters they tried to replace him with.
I so hate saying this, but The X-Files.
I had so much love for that show, but I couldn't get through the revival seasons.
It made me appreciate how much great TV really is lightning in a bottle.
For all I know, they just couldn't put a good story together without Vince Gilligan after all those years.
*Revenge*.
The premise was fine, the location and society different (for someone in the UK anyway), the actors good and the first series moved the whole revenge plot along fast enough to be satisfying.
The subplots served as red herrings for the basic conspiracy and/or snarky commentary on the class distinctions in the Hamptons but didn't overwhelm the story.
In season 2 it all slowed down and everything was being spun out to make the show run as long as possible at the expense of quality.
I made it through that season, just, but gave up in season 3 as it had become pure soap by that point.
Ben 10.
How they massacred my boy..
They totally destroyed it in the reboot
Greys Anatomy
That 70s show.
It basically petered out once most of the main cast left to star in other shows and movies.
This thread made me realize how rare shows that keep their quality throughout the series are.
One that comes to mind is Breaking Bad, and my all time favorite, Rome (even though it was only 2 seasons).
The 100.
Really compelling first season.
Then it just got stupid.
Edit: To be fair, Seasons 5 was truly amazing.
The ending of it was one of the best endings to a season of anything I've ever watched.
Then it went back to being trash.
Glee because for a while everything seemed ok but everything got too toxic and confusing after a while which made me stop watching.
The promised neverland !
Why why ruin such a beautiful story that was epic as a manga !
Designated Survivor.
Holy moly.
First season was amazing and everything else was glossy dog turd.
Bones.
Fairly decent crime/cop show.
Season 1 was excellent.
It stayed fairly good for a decent chunk then it started faltering around mid-ish season 4.
By the start of season 7 it was a beep By the time Bones gave birth in a beep manger I'd noped out.
The Goldbergs: the premise of it being based on real events from an 80’s kid with the home videos at the end was great.
Adam Goldberg was such a cute kid and the story lines were sappy, but eminently relatable.
Now your star has gone thru puberty and is trying to maintain a youthful innocence and the plot lines are tired hash, yet the show lumbers on.
Designated Survivor.
The first half of season one was great, the second half was still ok but lost so much of its action that it became a lot less fun.
The second season was too much political stuff for my liking and there was no big plot, just a bunch of little ones.
Season 3, it got taken by Netflix and was absolutely horrible.
Got rid of the best characters and brought in unlikeable new ones.
The language of the show completely changed and made it unwatchable.
I stopped 2 episodes into season 3.
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Shameless.
I think Season 8 is where I noticed a distinct drop in quality.
The dialogue was worse, the situations were more unrealistic, but overall it was still entertaining.
Season 9 with the intro with the really poor cgi rats beep threw me completely out and I turned it off.
It was a harrowing show that provoked thought by exploring real issues and highly entertaining with its debauchery.
In fact shameless was the first time I started crying and said “good for you *character name*”.
It just felt like it lost touch with itself and started leaning too heavily into shock value and absurd situations.
Every show turns stupid at some point unless the writers set a predetermined end date.
That's why Breaking Bad was so amazing and we talk so fondly about shows that end too soon like Firefly and Jericho.
They never had the chance to turn stupid.
Some shows get ended a little sooner, so they're "better" but it still rubs us the wrong way because it wasn't all wrapped up like Breaking Bad.
Man in the High Castle.
I’m still angry about it.
Bit of a tangent, as I've already seen The Walking Dead on here, but Fear The Walking Dead was beep fantastic in the first season.
Seeing how it all kicked off, how beep went down and how people slowly came to terms with the fact that the dead really were returning to life?
It was epic.
That should have been a one and done series, because the concept was great but it only had a shelf life of ONE season.
Once the cat's out of the bag, it just became 'the other zombie show' with significantly less likable characters.
This stuff is really helping me find shows with great 1-2 seasons and then know when to stop watching
Dexter, the show was great at first but the writers added drama by giving Dexter emotion even though he’s a serial killer... plus the whole sister wanting to beep him thing is kind of a turn off as well, even though she’s his step sis.
The Promised Neverland.
Bones.
I used to love it, but they kept doing too much (ex.
Pelant, the gravedigger, stuff with her dad, Booth and her having a kid but then she’s on the run, etc.)
and it was unbearable watch after they killed off Sweets😭
Has anyone mentioned Happy Days?
It coined the term “Jump the Shark”.
How to get away with murder!
Had so much potential
Misfits.
Really interesting show and concept but it was really being carried by actor Robert Sheehan.
When he left after season 3 the show dropped off and I stopped watching
Falling Skies.
I had a hard time taking it seriously after the first season.
Shameless
Never in my life have I seen a show that had so much potential, become downright unbearable and unwatchable as the series moved forward.
The first few seasons were great.
But damn that show went downhill.
The X-Files.
It was my favorite show back in the day, but I just pretend that everything after season 7 never happened.
They just kept resurrecting it when they should have just let it go.
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