Shows you keep watching out of habit/loyalty/some unknown reason...

Cafe Society
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Like stale snack food… they’re a little soggy and have lost flavor, but you keep sticking your hand in the bag anyway…

NCIS.
It’s not what it was at its peak. After the hot, fierce, gorgeous Ziva left and was replaced with the very serious, quirky almost-teen Ellie, who’s married, for Pete’s sake! the show went seriously downhill. Tony is all grown-up and no fun anymore. Tim and Jimmy are paired off, and that’s kind of boring. But I keep watching the show. I don’t know why.

The Good Wife.
Had some good moments a few seasons ago. I do like Alan Cumming* even though his character is obnoxious. And how about Chris Noth having three multi-season characters in three widely different shows over a 30-year period. WTG, Chris-- those residuals will pay for that high-end [del]nursing home[/del] retirement community when the time comes. I will likely go on watching TGW until it disappears over the horizon.

*If you want to have your mind totally blown, watch Alan Cumming perform the opening number in Cabaret.

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The Simpsons. It hasn’t gotten as bad as people say, but it’s definitely no longer a much watch show. But I treat it like a must watch show.

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Seinfeld, Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show.

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I stuck with Grey’s Anatomy way, WAY longer than I should have. :smack:

Through the plane crash, and the interminable legal crap that followed. Through the godawful musical episode. Through the cheating, cheating, cheating. Once the majority of the original cast left, there was little to keep me there. The originals seem to been hand-picked to play off each other well. How can a new-comer to the cast aspire to that kind of chemistry?

I hung in there to find out what happened to Cristina and where her career took her. Stopped watching after that, until the end of last season… UGHHH! :mad:

No more Shonda Rhimes series for me.

I also kept watching House MD long, long after it started to suck. I thought the actor who played Wilson was cute, okay? :o Then they go and give Wilson cancer. “We gave the director of oncology CANCER! Ha ha ha! Isn’t it ironic???”

Screw you, David Shore (showrunner).

I stopped watching NCIS when Ziva left. I know the actress wanted to go, but damn, I really enjoyed her. Abby and Ducky were not enough reason for me to stick around. :frowning:

Stopped watching Agents of Shield when Skye turned into Super Skye. I didn’t like her when she was human; what makes them think I’m going to like her better as an Inhuman?

I *almost *stopped watching Hannibal in the early part of season 3. It was getting way too artsy-fartsy, or pretentious, or something. I’m glad I stuck it out, because the rest of the season rocked! I even liked the ending. :smiley:

I enjoy Elementary, but stopped following it when Kitty joined the cast. Now that she’s gone, I’m back to watching it (when I can track it down on my TV schedule, that is). Another reason to watch? JOHN NOBLE will be joining the cast when the show returns in November! I adored him in Fringe. :slight_smile:

I’m sure I’ll think of more after I post this, derp. :stuck_out_tongue:

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South Park. I know, I know - it was old news around 2005, but I still think it hasn’t quite jumped the shark. Or rather, it jumped the shark around season 13, but now seems to be slowly recovering.

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You feel it hasn’t jumped the shark yet?

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Yeah, I stuck with House all the way to the bitter end, I can’t even tell you why except that it seemed silly to stop by that point. That’s time I’ll never get back. If I get hit by a bus tomorrow I’ll think “wow, I could have spent more time…”

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I like the concept of Arrow, but I don’t enjoy the show any more. I usually burn it off the DVR while cooking or doing some other task and use it as background.

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Like the OP, we’re still watching The Good Wife, although if the network fucks with this season like they did last season, then we’re done.

We just finished slogging through the last season of Damages, the Glenn Close lawyer thing. Started out as an interesting treatment, and they brought in people who normally play comedy roles to do dramatic turns (Darrell Hammond as a soulless killer?), which was entertaining. But it got really stupid by season four, and completely tiresome by the final season. Yet we continued.

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I still try to catch NCIS: Los Angeles, altho I really don’t enjoy it much anymore. I think I’m tired of the entire genre of “cop shows” in all their permutations.

ETA: Particularly for NCIS: LA, they really need to figure out some plot lines that don’t involve Middle Eastern terrorism. They’ve gone to that well waaaaaaay too many times.

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The Big Bang Theory. It was always a pretty contrived, conventional sitcom, but the contrivances are getting harder to ignore. And yet I feel invested in some weird way and keep watching, even though I rarely laugh at it anymore.

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Modern Family. The most over the top characters, Gloria and Cam, are not funny (to me) at all anymore. I think it’s just my Claire crush that keeps me watching.

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Yeah. I do genuinely still enjoy the show, but maybe not any more so than I’d enjoy some other shows that I don’t watch, so there’s some element of habit and/or loyalty there.

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Family guy.

“Do you know why they call me a box turtle?”

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I watched* ST: Voyage*r all the way to the end out of some hopeless hope that good episodes would start to appear, like ships coming out of the fog. I mean, it WAS Star Trek. The other shows were good. I leaned my lesson and bailed on Enterprise, but not soon enough.

I also learned my lesson and dropped Castle after this season’s opener.Even through the silliness of the last couple seasons, I kept watching it. But, if they want to assassinate their own characters, I’m not going to follow it anymore.

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Castle. Loved it for the first few seasons.

Then it made me regret that love. The longer I stuck it out, the more it punished me.

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I don’t watch TV that much any more, but back when LOST came on, I followed it religiously…for about the first 6 episodes. After that, it sailed off into WTF land. I’d watch a show every once in a while. SWMBO watched every episode and she would try to explain it all to me. It was just WTFs all the way down.

Blue Bloods is another one. That was a series that by design had only about 2 or 3 seasons in it. I still watch it every once in a while, but I can say they have crossed the border into Meh-land.

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The Big Bang Theory. Jumped the shark, and I was not at all impressed with last season, but I keep hoping…

Fear The Walking Dead. This one STARTED OFF stale, but I keep hoping…

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These plus Bones in the regular season, plus Big Brother and Survivor when they’re on. I do try new episodes of NOVA and Nature and they’re pretty old shows. Nashville is probably too young a show to be on such a list, but I do watch it every time.

Otherwise they have killed off my real favorites! :frowning:

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I second NCIS (I never started watching either of the spinoffs): I’ve been watching since the pilot episode, and I just don’t have it in me to cancel my TiVo’s season pass. I’ll most likely keep watching until it ends, though at this point I couldn’t really tell you why. It has the second most annoying character ever (Abby Sciuto, who just barely gets edged out by Sookie Stackhouse), but no one else bothers me much. At this point I guess it’s just “comfort TV.”

I also third The Big Bang Theory, but I only started feeling that way about it with this new season. We’ll see how it goes.

I’m still into The Good Wife; enough that it’s one of the shows I buy seasons of on iTunes – as the episodes air – because the network fucks with the schedule too much. (Do you mean the schedule or the show itself?)