# Shows with inconsistent quality

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-inconsistent-quality/782830>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 23, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-inconsistent-quality/782830 "2017-03-23T12:56:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-inconsistent-quality/782830/21 "2017-03-24T17:07:53Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Also “Portlandia”, mostly written by SNL’s alumnus, Fred Armisen.

This last season was especially disappointing. The first episode was very good. Return to form and all that. Then every single one after that was dud to near dud.

They just don’t have the ideas to do more than 3-4 episodes a year.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-inconsistent-quality/782830/22 "2017-03-24T17:17:28Z")

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> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> _One Day at a Time_. Some episodes are really brilliant, and the reason the show was on as long as it was, but some are so bad they make you squirm. The show was breaking new ground, and I think they probably got censored a lot, which may have created some of the episodes that were just dull. Others that are cringeworthy were attempts to explore the dynamics of a divorced woman and her daughters, written by men who were never divorced, or the product of divorce-- or maybe divorced, but not with children.
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> A few were so spot-on, they still are brilliant even 40 years later, though. I loved the show to death when it was new, and I still have a soft spot for it.

Have you checked out the Netflix redo of the series? I liked it very much.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-with-inconsistent-quality/782830/23 "2017-03-24T20:09:41Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> This last season was especially disappointing.

Agreed. This show needs to go away now.

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