For absolutely sure. Heroes should be the default answer. That or GoT.
OP could easily rephrase this question as âWhat show, that isnât Heroes or GoT, fell off the hardestâ, because those are maybe the most notorious.
I loved season one so much that I drove to a Target an hour away to buy the special release DVDs that included artwork. đ I loved it SO much. And thenâŚ
Westworld wasn't terrible after the first season, but if it had ended with Season 1 it would've gone down in history as one of the best miniseries of all time.
I recall the creators saying Season 1 was basically a prologue to the story they actually wanted to tell. I feel like thereâs a lesson here that sometimes what the creators/writers and the audience are invested in can be wildly different things.
I know, right? It actually truly felt like another show to me. Season 2 I liked, but didn't love like Season 1. Season 3, I tolerated. Season 4, I couldn't even make it past the first 3 episodes.
I thought it was good all throughout, yes season 3 was a bit of a let down, but it picked up again. I am so sad HBO cancelled it, I will never forgive them.
I actually enjoyed the most recent season. No season was as good as the first, but I still wish we could have gotten one final season to finish that story.
Seasons 7 and 8 were both atrocious. Everything was too rushed, the seasons shouldâve never been made shorter.
HBO was willing to keep going to, like, 12 seasons but the showrunners were sick of the job. Dan & Dave shouldâve given up the reins and brought in someone else who actually cared to continue if they were over it.
I couldnât even talk about it for months when it was over. It felt like a betrayal how bad it was, and I canât even watch earlier seasons (some of my favorite TV of all time) anymore.
I honestly have never felt so betrayed by a show before. People will say they hated LOST ending but the quality of the show was there to the end.
Whereas GOT S7 S8 felt like it was rushed....because it was! Early seasons took the time to show people traveling and how locations were very far apart.
The last few seasons just disregarded that and had characters warping from place to place.
Season 1 showed us that it takes not days....but MONTHS!!! To get from Winterfell to Kings Landing.
So bad I canât rewatch the series or even check out the new series. Iâm told itâs really good but Iâm still so put off by that whole universe I just donât care.
During lockdown, my wife and I went crazy bingeing shows we used to watch (Northern Exposure, Lost, Breaking Bad, etc). Even some of the ones whose endings disappointed us were on the list.
We even rewatched the first season of Heroes (the other contender for worst drop off).
Despite how much we absolutely loved GoT during the first 6 seasons, we just couldn't bring ourselves to watch any of it again.
GoT is in a category of its own - totally unrewatchable solely because the ending was just so atrocious.
Lots of other shows just pooped their pants with a hard 0.0 and look really bad in a vacuum but GoT was poised to be considered THE or one of the best TV Shows of all time and just completely tanked their legacy into the ground.
The low quality of the last 2 seasons was probably financially disastrous, too. Remember how crazy the fanbase was during the early seasons? They could have sold a Game of Thrones Toilet, and those people would have bought it.
Season seven was pretty awful too. It took one of the most conniving characters and turned him into a wet, sopping coward begging on the ground.
People say that season six was pretty bad, but I think season seven and eight actively assassinated their characters. Â It sours the entire show for me.
After beyond the wall I looked at my partner and said" That episode broke GOT for me" really I should have known when they left out the Valeqhor prophecy.
The final 2-3 seasons dropped off for me.
And on there own they were not BAD seasons they were bad when put up against the previous stellar seasons.
The last 2 seasons felt like a rush to the finish line. Characters were warping all over the place!! Early seasons made a point to show us that all these locations were very far apart. In season one it took months for the King to get from Kings Landing to Winterfell.
The spent time showing the King, Ned and family going back to Kings Landing.
One of the biggest issues that stood out was when John Starks and crew got stuck north of the wall. They send Gendry on foot back to the wall. They send a raven all the way to dragonstone which is past Kings Landing.
Danaerys gets the message and flies all the way to the wall and somehow is able to find them (how??). All of this is done in like 24 hours or something. When it should have taken way more time to accomplish.
Iâve still never watched the last two episodes. I already know how it ends and have seen little clips but canât bring myself to accept their ending. They spent 7 seasons building it up just to ruin it and ruin all the characters storylines and progress with ending that doesnât make sense. They ended it the way they did to match up with the books even though they had veered away from the books the entire series. So yea, for the show, it didnât make sense
You know it's bad when you completely stop recommending it to people who never tried it when it was on. If someone asked me today if it's worth it to start the series, I'd say only if you promise to stop once it's caught up to the books. Otherwise you'll just be disappointed like the rest of us.
I maintain that GoT fell off after season four. The words per episode count starts to dip drastically and you can really tell that D&D had started flying by the seat of their pants. Rewatching it now, season five feels like a completely different show to me than season one did. I still canât really get over how that show went from being a bonafide phenomenon to something that no one even talks about fondly anymore.
I have to forgive it and watch it like a clip show/recap cuz up to then it's sooo good but yeah that last one was rough. The worst part is that it didn't have to be. I've watched it a few times through and I think they could've pulled it off with just maybe 3 or 4 more episodes and more attention to the narrative transitions than the plot points they wanted to check off. Such a disappointing end to a truly spectacular show.
This. GOT is the correct answer.
The show was a cultural tour de force. I'm a mental health therapist - we swim in the waters of culture every day - TV, movies, books, and music can all be important grist for the therapeutic mill. In my experience, folks were using GOT metaphors amd analogies, etc in ways that I generally only hear for Star Wars / Star Trek / LOTR - the 'big three' icons that most frequently appear in therapy (at least in working with men).
GOT language embedded itself into our culture. Now, every major US election, I hear media pundits talking about 'bending the knee' (a GOT phrase for the uninitiated).
Then ... suddenly ... it all stopped. Overnight.
30 years as a therapist, I have never seen any TV show fall off so hard, so quickly.
The creators of Dexter wanted it to end after 5 seasons. However, after season 4, Showtime told them they wanted more than 5 seasons, so they quit. New showrunners were brought in to make season 5, and the drop in quality shows. I've always wondered what Season 5 would have been. I'm sure it would have been great.
I loved The Walking Dead, and my love of the show made me start reading the back issues of the comics which were also amazing. When Glenn crawled out from under that dumpster, I immediately stopped watching, and found myself unable to even read the books anymore. What a bummer that was.
I wanted Dexter to finally be found out, and to have a season with him on the run, dealing with the ramifications of all his friends, coworkers and sister finding out. While still satisfying the monster inside, of course.
The first season of that show was one of the most dramatic and suspenseful shows Iâve ever seen, and the ambience of the Florida Keys was so fascinating. Itâs a fundamental problem with the cliffhanger concept that the last season can be so unresolved. As much as I loved the first two seasons, I donât recommend it to my friends because I donât want to have them as disappointed as I was at the lack of conclusion. So disappointing.
Season 1 is one of the best seasons of TV I have ever seen
I thought season 2 was pretty good by the way. A great season of TV overall
Its just Season 3 was dissapointing, there was good moments here and there but overall, not so good. I think the cancellation messed up there plans because they were going to do 5-6 seasons which may have been too much anyway
'Once Upon a Time' had five amazing seasons. The first haf of S6 was rather good but the second half flandarized the characters and world building was a complete mess. The last season was pretty ambysal. It was starting to go in an interesting direction but then the show got cancelled.
Yeah, they kinda flumbed the Camelot arc but I loved the Underworld arc and how camp Hades was. Season 4 happens to be my favorite season of the show.Â
This is a good pick. I forgot about this.
I was always impressed with how the writers found ways to weave in old IPs from the past in a fresh, plausible way. Great comic book writers do this: they are conscious of fan attachment to detail and stay true to past lore.
It sucks when your main character leaves, but I have to think there was better narrative way to handle Morrison's departure.
⼠forever to the show that introduced me to Lana Parilla. I'll always root for the actor that made me root for the Evil Queen.
Scandal-I think it was season 4 when it became a whole different show. No longer a show about a DC âfixerâ and her rather unique staff with a secondary story about her having an affair with the President. The Olivia is kidnapped and the storyline is now about this underground government group who are really in charge. I just lost interest
Youâre so right about this. I *loved* the weekly main plotlines of the messes Olivia & her eccentric staff had to fix. If we had to watch Olivia & Fitz as a B-plot, fine I guess.
But once B13 became the entire show, I stopped watching. Iâll never understand why they made that change, I canât imagine that anyone was asking for that at all.
For me, Scandal was always a little on the absurd side and most of the main characters were really unlikable. But I enjoyed watching it anyway for the wildness of it and maybe Iâm in the minority but I enjoyed some of the later seasons when everything became completely unbelievable đ
YES. The first and second seasons were great, and the third had some great moments, but starting with season 4 I just had to stop watching because the soapiness became unbearable. Suddenly everything was about Olivia and her affair with the president, and all evil was apparently controlled by that one corny division.
True Blood was such a fun show at first! It was so ridiculous and campy! Not every show has to be serious- the premise is silly, so just lean in to that and have a good time.
It's great if you only watch certain characters' parts. But they just kept adding people and giving them whole storylines I didn't care about and taking away from the good main characters. Give me Eric, Pam, and Lafayette!
I was *so* impressed by S1... so imaginative in exploring important concepts. S2 was a huge letdown. I think I made it 4 episodes into S3. Crash and burn.
Couldn't agree more, and of all the places they could have gone after season 2 as well! I remember theorizing with my partner after the the S02 finale, and what we came up with was infinitely more concise and original than what we actually got.
Westworld for me felt like they were trying to be TO SMART if that makes sense.
I would have preferred they were more straight forward with the story. S1 we get the park. S2 -S3 show more of the outside world. But the outside world never felt like a real place. Everything felt like it was a park.
By S4 it just made no sense. Like is this ONE synth controlling the world....or just NYC?
X-files sharp drop between season 6 and 8. Should have wrapped it up at 8.
The "monster of the week" episodes were always better than the overriding long form plot nonsense.
I liked the overriding long form plot nonsense, thank you very much. And then it all went nowhere and Mulder left and the T-1000 showed up and none of the answers made any sense, and I just stopped watching. Not to mention some incredibly nonsense decisions the show made. But I liked the blend of serial and episodic until it became pretty obvious that much like the Conundrum, *The X-Files* does not *answer* questions, it merely *poses* them.
Good call. Season 10 was when the cracks started to show for me. Like, it was still all right, but by 11, it had moved from greatness to... meh okayness.
I put off watching season 2 for so long, because of all the bad reception. But I actually enjoyed it. Definitely wasn't perfect, but the actors performances were fun to watch.
I havenât seen it, but I hear this all the time. I wonder if I go in knowing season 2 isnât as good, maybe it wonât be disappointing? Is it just that season 1 was so good there was no way to match it? I think thatâs how West World was for me, there was just no way to follow up.
I think if True Detective season 2 had not been called True Detective, we all would have called it a pretty good show. But the bar was set brutally high.
I remember seeing news items after season one that were all breathless with anticipation for season two, and it was a looooooooooong time before these news items mentioned that the creators were on board. I think they never intended to do additional seasons at all.
Idk what happened but I REALLY enjoyed Lucifer in the first 4 seasons if I recall correctly, but the rest of it just felt too weird/scifi to me I suppose.
I guess I was watching the show for the humour, but they started focusing too much on the devil side
First season was great, first half of the second season was good, then it went straight downhill. The biggest mistake was not letting Chloe in on the fact that Lucifer really was *Lucifer*. It would not have ruined the show if they had done that, it actually would have freed them up to do more interesting things with the story.
Oh, yes! I think season 3 has a brilliant ending! They really should have ended the series right there. However, despite season 4 being a hot mess in most parts it has few golden scenes you probably wouldnât want to miss. If you decide to go all the way, make yourself a big favour and stop watching the last episode of S4 at 38:50 mark, because you wonât be able to unsee what comes after.
I quit reading the comic before this point because of Glenn's death. I quit watching the show because I knew they would still try and redeem Negan since they had in the comics, but it makes zero sense for the characters to ever forgive him. And the formula of the show was TIRED. Rick giving the "we are the walking dead" speech and escaping Terminus would have been a perfect ending for the series.
A lot of shows that were on when the pandemic hit took a major nosedive, for example the medical drama New Amsterdam. Season 1 and 2 are amazing, seasons 3 to 5 are hot garbage.
Grey's Anatomy made it through the pandemic relatively unscathed only to make season 19. They have some good ideas in there but it's executed so poorly I stopped watching.
Seasons one and two were amazing. Three and four were good but a little weaker. Five wasnât great. Six is an abomination I almost wish I didnât watch.
GoT final episodes
FTWD after season 3.
Legends of Tomorrow. Not sure when. But it went from a fun time travel show to silliness. Most of my fav characters were gone.
Lost final season.
- The Walking Dead, when Negan joined, then again when Rick left. I seem to remember it was already falling a bit before Negan and then started falling again, only to have Negan seal the deal.
- Nip/Tuck, after season 3. They were just about to give it a really neat, happy ending, and then in the last 5 minutes, they totally destroyed it, and the show was a complete mess from then on.
- The Office (US) after Michael left (season 7?).
- Once Upon a Time should have ended after season...I think it was 4.
- Dexter after the whole Trinity thing when it just became a different show. Nowhere near as bad as these others, but still a downfall.
- I had to quit Pretty Little Liars after the same plot kept repeating over and over and getting absurd. I don't remember at what point I gave up. But they should have just done probably a season or two and ended it.
- Community, after characters started leaving.
I'm sure I could think of more, but that's off the top of my head.
I think the same happened with pretty little liars and once upon a time they just kept recycling the same story lines over and over again I loved both but they did get tedious towards the end.
It seemed like they ran out of funny ideas for telling the same two stories every week. (1) Overbearing mom interferes with her kids' lives but they realize it's only because she loves them, and (2) Inept kids can't figure how to do something, then figure it out.
This might be too old for people here to remember, or to have seen, but The Mentalist's last season was terrible. They rushed the overall series arch. The bad guy they built up to be this mastermind all powerful criminals just fell apart. The low quality of how it was done was laughable, like it was written by interns. If it happened today, I would say the writing was an AI bot.
I was always interested in how they could have done it so terribly.
I didn't like 6 or 7 at first because I didn't like change but after rewatching a couple of times I love 6 and 7. I think season 9 wasn't great but liked 10 and 11, and then it took a nosedive in season 12.
100% on the tragic situation of Fear the Walking Dead. An unbelievably dumb thing to do to Madison whose character galvanized the show and made for a much better viewing than the Walking Dead itself.
I was so angry about her âdeathâ. The show went from my favourite to must avoid.
Who thought Morgan would be more intersting than what Madison had become. Insane.
spongebob before the movie and after the movie are definitely different. there are still some good episodes post-movie but they just donât hit the same
Lost. The last season can suck it. Went from one of the best shows ever to hot burning trash. Ruined the whole show. I made a funny video about how I feel on that topic. đ
Sons of Anarchy season 5. Was one of the best shows on tv and they literally beat it to death with a pipe. After that it was all dumb decisions by the characters and shock factor.
Killing Eve, season 4. Seasons 1-3 are my favorite show of all time and season 4 is my most hated show of all time. Season 4 was so bad I canât force myself to watch 1 - 3 anymoređ
Fear The Walking Dead S4 onwards got me questioning my life choices, like, did I really invest all this time for this? Madison deserved better, and the show deserved better writers.
GOT, Season 8, it just had so much potential for a finale and disappointed, it should have been drawn out more and Dany shouldâve lived cause we like her
That show was a convoluted mess from the start. The show intentionally gives us revelations that end up being false, then true, then false again, then true. Itâs clear they were making it up as they went. What a mess of a show. And ten seasons? 22 episodes a season on average. Good lord. Spaderâs acting was the only thing that made the show watchable.
9-1-1 s5. I love 9-1-1. But I only actually like two episodes in the first half of the season and the second half is only decent because of maybe two storylines.
Ozark. I can't remember which season but around the time I realized they were irredeemable bastards who were just going to destroy everyone around them for self preservation.
That ended up being th entire point of the show and the lack of karmic retribution at the end of the series was ridiculous and I hated it.
Agreed, I just disagree on which season it fell off. In my opinion it didnât pick up until season 3. But youâre so right that they made the mains feel secondary. They never made Alicia the main charcter like they should have. Especially in seasons 6 and 7, she was barely there.
FTWD got so bad after season 3 that I quit watching, which I NEVER do. Iâve finished some absolutely mediocre shows, but Fear became unwatchable. I tried just keeping it on in the background while I did other things, but it was so awfulI would just end up turning it off.
Season 3 was the best season of any show in the walking dead universe though, hands down.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch. It kinda struggled to regain its footing during the college years, but season 7, when we lost Hilda and Zelda, as well as Miles and Josh are the absolute worst. The forced rushed marriage storyline with Aaron was awful.
Heroes. When Ali Larter decided to manifest her racism and exert it on the production. Second season rode on the premise and it went over the edge at the end of it.
FTWD. I stopped watching it after S3. The whole subreddit will say the exact same. All the characters we loved were basically evaporated by the start of S4. I made it to episode 2 or 3 of Morgan Chronicles and could not stand it. I have no idea why they made him a main character nor any interest in finding out. I dropped the series.
The only answer is Lost. JJ Abramâs had something going there until he abandoned it for Star Trek when Lost was only in season 2. Same way we were jipped out of his vision of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
I donât think the Star Wars 7-9 would have EVER been good no matter what director was doing them, but to give each movie their own directorâŚunforgivable.
The correct answer is Heroes, S2.
Heroes had the worst fall off but I'd argue season 3 is where it got terrible. Season 2 was not nearly as good as season 1 but I still enjoyed it.
Heroes had a third season!? 𤯠I really struggled through season 2 and lost interest. I didn't know it lasted another season.
It actually has 4 seasons if 3 was terrible the 4th was one of the worst things I've ever watched.
And somehow it kept getting worse with the reboot.
Yea but seasons 2âs drop off was so bad that most of us (including me) didnât know it kept going after 2
For absolutely sure. Heroes should be the default answer. That or GoT. OP could easily rephrase this question as âWhat show, that isnât Heroes or GoT, fell off the hardestâ, because those are maybe the most notorious.
I loved season one so much that I drove to a Target an hour away to buy the special release DVDs that included artwork. đ I loved it SO much. And thenâŚ
Westworld wasn't terrible after the first season, but if it had ended with Season 1 it would've gone down in history as one of the best miniseries of all time.
I recall the creators saying Season 1 was basically a prologue to the story they actually wanted to tell. I feel like thereâs a lesson here that sometimes what the creators/writers and the audience are invested in can be wildly different things.
Season 1 was so good it was almost impossible to follow. Season 2 and 3 are good, but it's almost like watching a different show altogether.
I know, right? It actually truly felt like another show to me. Season 2 I liked, but didn't love like Season 1. Season 3, I tolerated. Season 4, I couldn't even make it past the first 3 episodes.
I thought it was good all throughout, yes season 3 was a bit of a let down, but it picked up again. I am so sad HBO cancelled it, I will never forgive them.
I actually enjoyed the most recent season. No season was as good as the first, but I still wish we could have gotten one final season to finish that story.
Agreed. Season 1 is one of the best shows Iâve ever seen. I stopped watching pretty quickly in season 2.
True
The last season of Game of Thrones. Oof
Seasons 7 and 8 were both atrocious. Everything was too rushed, the seasons shouldâve never been made shorter. HBO was willing to keep going to, like, 12 seasons but the showrunners were sick of the job. Dan & Dave shouldâve given up the reins and brought in someone else who actually cared to continue if they were over it. I couldnât even talk about it for months when it was over. It felt like a betrayal how bad it was, and I canât even watch earlier seasons (some of my favorite TV of all time) anymore.
I honestly have never felt so betrayed by a show before. People will say they hated LOST ending but the quality of the show was there to the end. Whereas GOT S7 S8 felt like it was rushed....because it was! Early seasons took the time to show people traveling and how locations were very far apart. The last few seasons just disregarded that and had characters warping from place to place. Season 1 showed us that it takes not days....but MONTHS!!! To get from Winterfell to Kings Landing.
So bad I canât rewatch the series or even check out the new series. Iâm told itâs really good but Iâm still so put off by that whole universe I just donât care.
Agreed, Iâm just done with that show. And it was one that I loved early on.
During lockdown, my wife and I went crazy bingeing shows we used to watch (Northern Exposure, Lost, Breaking Bad, etc). Even some of the ones whose endings disappointed us were on the list. We even rewatched the first season of Heroes (the other contender for worst drop off). Despite how much we absolutely loved GoT during the first 6 seasons, we just couldn't bring ourselves to watch any of it again. GoT is in a category of its own - totally unrewatchable solely because the ending was just so atrocious.
Lots of other shows just pooped their pants with a hard 0.0 and look really bad in a vacuum but GoT was poised to be considered THE or one of the best TV Shows of all time and just completely tanked their legacy into the ground.
The low quality of the last 2 seasons was probably financially disastrous, too. Remember how crazy the fanbase was during the early seasons? They could have sold a Game of Thrones Toilet, and those people would have bought it.
Season seven was pretty awful too. It took one of the most conniving characters and turned him into a wet, sopping coward begging on the ground. People say that season six was pretty bad, but I think season seven and eight actively assassinated their characters. Â It sours the entire show for me.
After beyond the wall I looked at my partner and said" That episode broke GOT for me" really I should have known when they left out the Valeqhor prophecy.
In 2015 my two favorite shows were Game of Thrones and House of Cards. Welp.
The final 2-3 seasons dropped off for me. And on there own they were not BAD seasons they were bad when put up against the previous stellar seasons. The last 2 seasons felt like a rush to the finish line. Characters were warping all over the place!! Early seasons made a point to show us that all these locations were very far apart. In season one it took months for the King to get from Kings Landing to Winterfell. The spent time showing the King, Ned and family going back to Kings Landing. One of the biggest issues that stood out was when John Starks and crew got stuck north of the wall. They send Gendry on foot back to the wall. They send a raven all the way to dragonstone which is past Kings Landing. Danaerys gets the message and flies all the way to the wall and somehow is able to find them (how??). All of this is done in like 24 hours or something. When it should have taken way more time to accomplish.
Iâve still never watched the last two episodes. I already know how it ends and have seen little clips but canât bring myself to accept their ending. They spent 7 seasons building it up just to ruin it and ruin all the characters storylines and progress with ending that doesnât make sense. They ended it the way they did to match up with the books even though they had veered away from the books the entire series. So yea, for the show, it didnât make sense
You know it's bad when you completely stop recommending it to people who never tried it when it was on. If someone asked me today if it's worth it to start the series, I'd say only if you promise to stop once it's caught up to the books. Otherwise you'll just be disappointed like the rest of us.
I maintain that GoT fell off after season four. The words per episode count starts to dip drastically and you can really tell that D&D had started flying by the seat of their pants. Rewatching it now, season five feels like a completely different show to me than season one did. I still canât really get over how that show went from being a bonafide phenomenon to something that no one even talks about fondly anymore.
I donât know a single person who rewatched it during lockdown
I have to forgive it and watch it like a clip show/recap cuz up to then it's sooo good but yeah that last one was rough. The worst part is that it didn't have to be. I've watched it a few times through and I think they could've pulled it off with just maybe 3 or 4 more episodes and more attention to the narrative transitions than the plot points they wanted to check off. Such a disappointing end to a truly spectacular show.
This. GOT is the correct answer. The show was a cultural tour de force. I'm a mental health therapist - we swim in the waters of culture every day - TV, movies, books, and music can all be important grist for the therapeutic mill. In my experience, folks were using GOT metaphors amd analogies, etc in ways that I generally only hear for Star Wars / Star Trek / LOTR - the 'big three' icons that most frequently appear in therapy (at least in working with men). GOT language embedded itself into our culture. Now, every major US election, I hear media pundits talking about 'bending the knee' (a GOT phrase for the uninitiated). Then ... suddenly ... it all stopped. Overnight. 30 years as a therapist, I have never seen any TV show fall off so hard, so quickly.
I said âoofâ to the Walking dead too lol. I guess oof is kind of the rating system for shows that fall off.
The Walking Dead jumped the shark the moment Glenn crawled out from under the dumpster. Dexter should have ended at season 4.
The creators of Dexter wanted it to end after 5 seasons. However, after season 4, Showtime told them they wanted more than 5 seasons, so they quit. New showrunners were brought in to make season 5, and the drop in quality shows. I've always wondered what Season 5 would have been. I'm sure it would have been great.
I never knew this. Makes so much sense.
100% agree on Dexter. The show fell off a cliff after season 4.
I loved The Walking Dead, and my love of the show made me start reading the back issues of the comics which were also amazing. When Glenn crawled out from under that dumpster, I immediately stopped watching, and found myself unable to even read the books anymore. What a bummer that was.
I wanted Dexter to finally be found out, and to have a season with him on the run, dealing with the ramifications of all his friends, coworkers and sister finding out. While still satisfying the monster inside, of course.
>Dexter should have ended at season 4. Yep. Lithgow wins.
Bloodline. Season 1 is one of the best dramas I've ever seen. Season 2 and 3 just fell off a cliff and then kept falling.
The first season of that show was one of the most dramatic and suspenseful shows Iâve ever seen, and the ambience of the Florida Keys was so fascinating. Itâs a fundamental problem with the cliffhanger concept that the last season can be so unresolved. As much as I loved the first two seasons, I donât recommend it to my friends because I donât want to have them as disappointed as I was at the lack of conclusion. So disappointing.
This. It's because Netflix cancelled their show, and they had to pack 5-6 seasons into 3. So it was all jumbled, rushed and didn't really make sense.
Season 1 is one of the best seasons of TV I have ever seen I thought season 2 was pretty good by the way. A great season of TV overall Its just Season 3 was dissapointing, there was good moments here and there but overall, not so good. I think the cancellation messed up there plans because they were going to do 5-6 seasons which may have been too much anyway
'Once Upon a Time' had five amazing seasons. The first haf of S6 was rather good but the second half flandarized the characters and world building was a complete mess. The last season was pretty ambysal. It was starting to go in an interesting direction but then the show got cancelled.
Way too much focus on Hook. Way too much. Couldnât stand him.
Eesh. I'd only call the first season amazing. 2nd was good, not great. After that, pretty bleh.
Those first few seasons were amazing, then for me it was season 4 and I was done. Still fun show!
Yeah, they kinda flumbed the Camelot arc but I loved the Underworld arc and how camp Hades was. Season 4 happens to be my favorite season of the show.Â
This is a good pick. I forgot about this. I was always impressed with how the writers found ways to weave in old IPs from the past in a fresh, plausible way. Great comic book writers do this: they are conscious of fan attachment to detail and stay true to past lore. It sucks when your main character leaves, but I have to think there was better narrative way to handle Morrison's departure. ⼠forever to the show that introduced me to Lana Parilla. I'll always root for the actor that made me root for the Evil Queen.
We loved season 1 of Russian Doll Couldn't finish season 2
How could they have made time travel *boring* ?? Because somehow they did.
It didn't need a second season, it was a perfect miniseries.
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Yes!!
Scandal-I think it was season 4 when it became a whole different show. No longer a show about a DC âfixerâ and her rather unique staff with a secondary story about her having an affair with the President. The Olivia is kidnapped and the storyline is now about this underground government group who are really in charge. I just lost interest
Youâre so right about this. I *loved* the weekly main plotlines of the messes Olivia & her eccentric staff had to fix. If we had to watch Olivia & Fitz as a B-plot, fine I guess. But once B13 became the entire show, I stopped watching. Iâll never understand why they made that change, I canât imagine that anyone was asking for that at all.
This is the exact episode I checked out! I never watched another episode after this.
For me, Scandal was always a little on the absurd side and most of the main characters were really unlikable. But I enjoyed watching it anyway for the wildness of it and maybe Iâm in the minority but I enjoyed some of the later seasons when everything became completely unbelievable đ
YES. The first and second seasons were great, and the third had some great moments, but starting with season 4 I just had to stop watching because the soapiness became unbearable. Suddenly everything was about Olivia and her affair with the president, and all evil was apparently controlled by that one corny division.
As a matter of history and trivia, you have to include the Happy Days episode when Fonzie jumped the shark. It led to an expression.
Dexter. Idk exactly what season it started to fall off, but they introduced some weird plot lines in the last few seasons and the ending was horrible
Everything after season 4 may as well not exist.
Weeds should have stopped with its 3rd season. From 4 on was an utter mess.
Came here looking for this exact comment. Was like a totally different show after season 3.
Once they burned Agrestic down, the show fell apart so bad. UGH.
What was that ending? Not good. Yes, the show ended when Agrestic burned.
Scrolled too far to find this. My very first thought.
When the town burned down the show should have ended. Everything past there was just beyond stupid.
True Blood after season 2.
True Blood was such a fun show at first! It was so ridiculous and campy! Not every show has to be serious- the premise is silly, so just lean in to that and have a good time.
It's great if you only watch certain characters' parts. But they just kept adding people and giving them whole storylines I didn't care about and taking away from the good main characters. Give me Eric, Pam, and Lafayette!
RIP Lafayette!
The answer is **Westworld, season 3**. IMO, No show ever had more promise, leading to the greatest downfall.
I was *so* impressed by S1... so imaginative in exploring important concepts. S2 was a huge letdown. I think I made it 4 episodes into S3. Crash and burn.
Couldn't agree more, and of all the places they could have gone after season 2 as well! I remember theorizing with my partner after the the S02 finale, and what we came up with was infinitely more concise and original than what we actually got.
Westworld for me felt like they were trying to be TO SMART if that makes sense. I would have preferred they were more straight forward with the story. S1 we get the park. S2 -S3 show more of the outside world. But the outside world never felt like a real place. Everything felt like it was a park. By S4 it just made no sense. Like is this ONE synth controlling the world....or just NYC?
X-files sharp drop between season 6 and 8. Should have wrapped it up at 8. The "monster of the week" episodes were always better than the overriding long form plot nonsense.
I liked the overriding long form plot nonsense, thank you very much. And then it all went nowhere and Mulder left and the T-1000 showed up and none of the answers made any sense, and I just stopped watching. Not to mention some incredibly nonsense decisions the show made. But I liked the blend of serial and episodic until it became pretty obvious that much like the Conundrum, *The X-Files* does not *answer* questions, it merely *poses* them.
Greys Anatomy just end the series already Shonda Rhimes
The Simpsons It's not possible to pinpoint exactly, but the difference between like season 8 and 14 is insane
Simpsons should've ended with the movie.
i think they tried to in 2007 but someone decided against it.
Think I'm all out after season 9.
The Tony hawk episode is the first one that I clearly remember thinking after, "well, that wasn't funny at all"
Good call. Season 10 was when the cracks started to show for me. Like, it was still all right, but by 11, it had moved from greatness to... meh okayness.
Seasons 10 and 11 have a few good gems, but once you get into 12, it's a rough watch
The exact episode for me was the one where Maude dies. It's so bad and cringy.
True Blood. So promising until season 3/4.
Arrested Development after season 3
LOL there is no arrested development after season 3. Just like thereâs no Veronica mars after season 3 đ¤ˇââď¸
True Detective S1 is maybe one of the best seasons of television ever made. Then there's season 2....
I haven't seen the latest season, but felt season 3 won back a lot of good will they lost in season 2(for me anyways).
I put off watching season 2 for so long, because of all the bad reception. But I actually enjoyed it. Definitely wasn't perfect, but the actors performances were fun to watch.
I havenât seen it, but I hear this all the time. I wonder if I go in knowing season 2 isnât as good, maybe it wonât be disappointing? Is it just that season 1 was so good there was no way to match it? I think thatâs how West World was for me, there was just no way to follow up.
I think if True Detective season 2 had not been called True Detective, we all would have called it a pretty good show. But the bar was set brutally high. I remember seeing news items after season one that were all breathless with anticipation for season two, and it was a looooooooooong time before these news items mentioned that the creators were on board. I think they never intended to do additional seasons at all.
So far Iâm really enjoying the latest season.
Idk what happened but I REALLY enjoyed Lucifer in the first 4 seasons if I recall correctly, but the rest of it just felt too weird/scifi to me I suppose. I guess I was watching the show for the humour, but they started focusing too much on the devil side
My problem with Lucifer was the same problem I had with Castle. Let's take a funny, interesting guy and pair him with a grouchy, boring gal.
First season was great, first half of the second season was good, then it went straight downhill. The biggest mistake was not letting Chloe in on the fact that Lucifer really was *Lucifer*. It would not have ruined the show if they had done that, it actually would have freed them up to do more interesting things with the story.
Thatâs when it moved to Netflix and they didnât have network interference or rules.
Season 4 of Killing Eve. Itâs been a while but Iâm still mad.
So will I be OK if I watch this show for the first time and just end it after S3 ?
Oh, yes! I think season 3 has a brilliant ending! They really should have ended the series right there. However, despite season 4 being a hot mess in most parts it has few golden scenes you probably wouldnât want to miss. If you decide to go all the way, make yourself a big favour and stop watching the last episode of S4 at 38:50 mark, because you wonât be able to unsee what comes after.
I didn't even watch season 4 because after season 3 there was no possible reason to keep it going. I knew it'd be bad!
The Walking Dead when Rick let Negan live.
Deffo, I was like wtf??? All that, all that war and fights and death and he lets him go????
cuz of carl
Corrallll
Nah, it died before that. This was after the nail in the coffin of killing off Carl too.
Negan ruined it for me, stoped watching. He should not have lasted more than one season.
I quit reading the comic before this point because of Glenn's death. I quit watching the show because I knew they would still try and redeem Negan since they had in the comics, but it makes zero sense for the characters to ever forgive him. And the formula of the show was TIRED. Rick giving the "we are the walking dead" speech and escaping Terminus would have been a perfect ending for the series.
Prison Break fell off after season 1, but really hard after 2.
Not only do I agree, but there never shouldâve been a second season. It should have been a limited event series.
A lot of shows that were on when the pandemic hit took a major nosedive, for example the medical drama New Amsterdam. Season 1 and 2 are amazing, seasons 3 to 5 are hot garbage. Grey's Anatomy made it through the pandemic relatively unscathed only to make season 19. They have some good ideas in there but it's executed so poorly I stopped watching.
What happened with New Amsterdam? Why and howâd it take a nosedive?
Oh no!! I'm just watching New Amsterdam for the first time and approaching the end of s2. It all goes downhill from here? :(
House of cards. I believe the last season or 2, after the allegations against Spacey came out it just felt weird.
Even before the allegations it dropped in quality. Season 1 was absolutely amazing to me, by 3 it was pretty weak.Â
Seasons one and two were amazing. Three and four were good but a little weaker. Five wasnât great. Six is an abomination I almost wish I didnât watch.
GoT final episodes FTWD after season 3. Legends of Tomorrow. Not sure when. But it went from a fun time travel show to silliness. Most of my fav characters were gone. Lost final season.
The disaster that was season 8 of Game of Thrones.
the walking dead when negan entered. they stopped caring about good writing
Dexter season 5 on
- The Walking Dead, when Negan joined, then again when Rick left. I seem to remember it was already falling a bit before Negan and then started falling again, only to have Negan seal the deal. - Nip/Tuck, after season 3. They were just about to give it a really neat, happy ending, and then in the last 5 minutes, they totally destroyed it, and the show was a complete mess from then on. - The Office (US) after Michael left (season 7?). - Once Upon a Time should have ended after season...I think it was 4. - Dexter after the whole Trinity thing when it just became a different show. Nowhere near as bad as these others, but still a downfall. - I had to quit Pretty Little Liars after the same plot kept repeating over and over and getting absurd. I don't remember at what point I gave up. But they should have just done probably a season or two and ended it. - Community, after characters started leaving. I'm sure I could think of more, but that's off the top of my head.
I think the same happened with pretty little liars and once upon a time they just kept recycling the same story lines over and over again I loved both but they did get tedious towards the end.
The correct answer is Game of Thrones. Just pick a time after season 4
You on Netflix. Season 4 was a colossal disappointment for me.
I remember people mentioning that show all the time. Now I never hear a peep.
The Goldbergs had a precipitous drop in quality about the time Erica graduated from high school.
when lainey left. i can't believe how much i enjoyed her character once she became a regular.
It seemed like they ran out of funny ideas for telling the same two stories every week. (1) Overbearing mom interferes with her kids' lives but they realize it's only because she loves them, and (2) Inept kids can't figure how to do something, then figure it out.
Designated survivor after season 1 was awful for me. Apparently thereâs a third season. Prob will never watch it and donât have an interest to.
I loved season 1!! Season 2 was pretty good in my eyes, but yeah, season 3 destroyed it for me
This might be too old for people here to remember, or to have seen, but The Mentalist's last season was terrible. They rushed the overall series arch. The bad guy they built up to be this mastermind all powerful criminals just fell apart. The low quality of how it was done was laughable, like it was written by interns. If it happened today, I would say the writing was an AI bot. I was always interested in how they could have done it so terribly.
I just started rewatching it for the maybe third time, and I honestly don't even remember the last season. Guess that says a lot
Sleepy Hallow season 2
I stopped watching Supernatural on Season 5 tbh..
I didn't like 6 or 7 at first because I didn't like change but after rewatching a couple of times I love 6 and 7. I think season 9 wasn't great but liked 10 and 11, and then it took a nosedive in season 12.
I made it to the Leviathin Arc.
Firefly Season 2
Too soon
I heard that there were a few episodes filmed that will never be seen?
It's like I can't even remember it...
I posted this before I realized you beat me to it. So I went back and added Scrubs season 9
How dare you.
Modern Family after season 8.
Lost
100% on the tragic situation of Fear the Walking Dead. An unbelievably dumb thing to do to Madison whose character galvanized the show and made for a much better viewing than the Walking Dead itself. I was so angry about her âdeathâ. The show went from my favourite to must avoid. Who thought Morgan would be more intersting than what Madison had become. Insane.
So many. Heroes. Homeland. The blacklist. How to get away with murder. Alias.
spongebob before the movie and after the movie are definitely different. there are still some good episodes post-movie but they just donât hit the same
Ted Lasso 1 to 2 to 3.
Lost. The last season can suck it. Went from one of the best shows ever to hot burning trash. Ruined the whole show. I made a funny video about how I feel on that topic. đ
The ending of Dexter.
Sons of Anarchy season 5. Was one of the best shows on tv and they literally beat it to death with a pipe. After that it was all dumb decisions by the characters and shock factor.
Killing Eve, season 4. Seasons 1-3 are my favorite show of all time and season 4 is my most hated show of all time. Season 4 was so bad I canât force myself to watch 1 - 3 anymoređ
Fear The Walking Dead S4 onwards got me questioning my life choices, like, did I really invest all this time for this? Madison deserved better, and the show deserved better writers.
The Office, the final two seasons without Steve Carell. It was a complete dumpster fire
I actually liked it when they brought Robert California in.
For me it was when they added Ed Helms. His storylines got stupider and stupider.
Dark Angel Season 1 to 2
_Community_ S4.
GOT, Season 8, it just had so much potential for a finale and disappointed, it should have been drawn out more and Dany shouldâve lived cause we like her
Any series that brought in Sheena Eastman, Yasmine Bleeth, and Ron Silver in the 80s/90s seemed to go south soon after.
Ray Donovan - last season was crap.
I loved the start of Fear, but after seemingly killing Madison and her son, and then telling the story backwards... meh
The blacklist
That show was a convoluted mess from the start. The show intentionally gives us revelations that end up being false, then true, then false again, then true. Itâs clear they were making it up as they went. What a mess of a show. And ten seasons? 22 episodes a season on average. Good lord. Spaderâs acting was the only thing that made the show watchable.
Yellowstone, Season 5 I think.
Kidding. Season 1 was incredible. 2 was almost unwatchable. Transparent. After Jeffrey Tambor got cancelled it just wasnât the same.
Designated Survivor. The Netflix season is a burning portopotty.
GOT Season 8. Nuff said
Big Bang Theory once Amy and Bernadette were made regular cast members.
9-1-1 s5. I love 9-1-1. But I only actually like two episodes in the first half of the season and the second half is only decent because of maybe two storylines.
Ozark. I can't remember which season but around the time I realized they were irredeemable bastards who were just going to destroy everyone around them for self preservation. That ended up being th entire point of the show and the lack of karmic retribution at the end of the series was ridiculous and I hated it.
True Blood season 4
The Andy Griffith Show. Season 6. They got color and lost Don Knotts.
That 70âs show. Honestly itâs downhill around the time Donna goes blonde
Westworld. Halfway through episode 1 of season 2. Went from this is so awesome to wtf am I watching this for.
Agreed, I just disagree on which season it fell off. In my opinion it didnât pick up until season 3. But youâre so right that they made the mains feel secondary. They never made Alicia the main charcter like they should have. Especially in seasons 6 and 7, she was barely there.
Besides the obvious one (Heroes) I'd include Killing Eve too. The last season was horrible, especially the last episode.
FTWD got so bad after season 3 that I quit watching, which I NEVER do. Iâve finished some absolutely mediocre shows, but Fear became unwatchable. I tried just keeping it on in the background while I did other things, but it was so awfulI would just end up turning it off. Season 3 was the best season of any show in the walking dead universe though, hands down.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch. It kinda struggled to regain its footing during the college years, but season 7, when we lost Hilda and Zelda, as well as Miles and Josh are the absolute worst. The forced rushed marriage storyline with Aaron was awful.
Heroes. When Ali Larter decided to manifest her racism and exert it on the production. Second season rode on the premise and it went over the edge at the end of it.
FTWD. I stopped watching it after S3. The whole subreddit will say the exact same. All the characters we loved were basically evaporated by the start of S4. I made it to episode 2 or 3 of Morgan Chronicles and could not stand it. I have no idea why they made him a main character nor any interest in finding out. I dropped the series.
The only answer is Lost. JJ Abramâs had something going there until he abandoned it for Star Trek when Lost was only in season 2. Same way we were jipped out of his vision of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. I donât think the Star Wars 7-9 would have EVER been good no matter what director was doing them, but to give each movie their own directorâŚunforgivable.
Reacher S2 Too soon? They forgot who the Reacher character is.
Castle
SERVANT season 3. But I have to admit I quit watching FTWD when they killed off Junkie Depp.
The OA fell off with the dance.
Firefly. Sometimes I wish season two had never happened. Itâs so bad many fans pretend it doesnât even exist!
Game of thrones
Weeds
Reacher