# Shows you Bailed on **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837 "2015-04-29T20:11:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/81 "2015-04-30T16:38:10Z")
I stopped watching **Orange is the New Black** halfway through the second season. I wasn’t feeling love for the Red Vs (New Black Woman) Showdown and Piper’s Boring-Ass Relationship Issues that was taking up much of the time. I “intend” to finish it out yet but, again, the fact that I haven’t yet probably says something. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/82 "2015-04-30T16:44:14Z")
**Blacklist** **House of Cards** (loved season 1 and 2; Frank was so much more interestting before he bcame president) **Breaking Bad** **Grimm** **Luther** ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/83 "2015-04-30T18:39:52Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I drifted away from **Archer** during the _Archer Vice_ season. Wasn’t even intentional, I just missed an episodes, then two… etc. Sort of mean to go back and see what I missed but apparently not enough for me to have done so yet. Same here, but I’m pretty sure it was the season before. I just forgot to set the DVR and then never bothered to rectify it. I occasionally will watch it if its on while I am channel surfing. Blacklist I’m bailing on now. I binged season 1 on Netflix. Watched Season 2 up until the mid-season break. Eventually watched the two part return and haven’t had any desire to pick it back up. I liked the overall plot, but I don’t care much for the individual episodes. I’ll give “Last Man on Earth” the whole season. I do still manage to laugh out loud about 3 times per episode but overall, the show is hard to like now. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/84 "2015-04-30T19:06:52Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > I’m usually pretty resilient. **Agents of SHIELD** was the last show I got all revved up for and watched the first several episodes until I gave up. I thought the plot and acting were subpar for what I expect from something with Marvel’s name on it. I’m not telling you that it is the best show ever but the things you complained about did get better before the end of the 1st season. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/85 "2015-04-30T19:25:49Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > **Breaking Bad** At what point did you bail on Breaking Bad? That’s one show I felt stayed very strong all the way through. > [@Loach](#): > > I’m not telling you that it is the best show ever but the things you complained about did get better before the end of the 1st season. Funny thing is my wife kept up with Agents of SHIELD and she still watches it. She also said it got better but I guess I was beyond the point of no return. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/86 "2015-04-30T19:41:48Z")
FWIW I think Gotham and Agents of SHIELD have both gotten much more interesting in the last couple months. Shows I have recently given up on are NCIS and Big Bang Theory. NCIS just got too repetitive, they occasionally had a different sort of story arc but they always fell flat for me. Big Bang Theory is now less about nerdly things and more about relationships, I just quit caring at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/87 "2015-04-30T21:29:17Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned **Greys Anatomy** yet. Or did none of you ever watch it in the first place? Every time they get a character on there I like they kill him or her off. Derek was the last one. Now if I can just get my wife to bail on it too. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/88 "2015-04-30T22:21:57Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > I’m surprised no one has mentioned **Greys Anatomy** yet. Or did none of you ever watch it in the first place? Every time they get a character on there I like they kill him or her off. Derek was the last one. Now if I can just get my wife to bail on it too. :dubious: I stopped watching Grey’a Anatomy when whiny-assed Meredith refused to die after jumping into the river. Season one or Two? First they steal an organ and “for love” and their punishment is to plan a party and then that sef-centered biotch jumps into the river during a city wide emergency and didn’t have the decency to die. I didn’t mention it because there were more recent shows I’ve bailed on. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/89 "2015-04-30T22:28:40Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Last man on earth was the same joke over and over again, i quit after a few episodes of not getting to bang the hot chick because he keeps screwing up. Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Spaulding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Miss\_Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Spaulding)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/90 "2015-04-30T22:37:53Z")
Wow, so many people hate **Grimm**. I’m glad I never wasted my time watching that one. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/91 "2015-04-30T22:53:14Z")
> [@Miss\_Spaulding](#): > > Wow, so many people hate **Grimm**. I’m glad I never wasted my time watching that one. I forgot I gave up on Grimm. I thought it was great for a season or two, but at some point it just lost my interest. Probably the long midseason break. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/92 "2015-04-30T22:55:43Z")
Here’s the flip side, if you’ll indulge me: **Selfie** : watched the first episode, hated every minute of it. The next week, I’m at the computer, the wife is watching it, I’m half listening in, I had 3 or 4 good laughs. The week after, I’m only just barely “at” the computer, had half a dozen solid chuckles. By the sixth or seventh week, screw the computer, I’m in front of The Tube. Somehow, it hit its stride in just about every department: the female lead (the red-head) and the Asian guy started to click, the supporting cast was moving into the foreground, the boss was putting me on the floor, the stories were getting more cohesive. I knew there was no way it would go more than 2 full seasons, but I couldn’t wait to see where it was heading. Yep, it’s cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Spaulding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Miss\_Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Spaulding)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/93 "2015-04-30T23:07:34Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > I forgot I gave up on Grimm. I thought it was great for a season or two, but at some point it just lost my interest. Probably the long midseason break. It seems almost all shows are only good for a season or two. It’s kind of a novelty if it makes it through three and with its viewers intact. …Anyway, I’ll probably still forgo Grimm. I’m already watching Once Upon a Time, so that’s about all the fantasy I can take for right now. I know a lot of people gave up on OUAT as well, but I still love it…actually I’m kind of obsessed with it. ⭕D _sheepish laugh_ I think the ‘midseason break’ thing is crap and a huge reason why people lose interest in shows. It almost made me not finish the first season of Sleepy Hollow. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/94 "2015-05-01T00:50:43Z")
**Arrow** was supposed to be “passable” until the techy girl joined the team, and then it was supposed to really take off and get great, according to what people were saying here. I watched it, didn’t care about much of anything except the small parts that featured the Island from LOST. But yeah, it was overall passable. Then it started to get stupid. Then they introduced the techy girl and the show went from the occasional dip in the stupid to running out to the great, vast ocean of mind-numbing stupidity, rented a boat, spent all their gas to motor and strand themselves in the middle, and jumped in headfirst. Very rarely do I bale on a show until I’ve at least hit a season end, but the stupid was too great for me. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/95 "2015-05-01T01:43:14Z")
**Supernatural** , **Fringe** , **Warehouse 13**. Shows that I should have loved but something about them just made me stop caring that much - when they were ‘monster-of-the-week’ shows they were a lot of fun but once a major story arc started up I quit. Maybe \*\*X-Files \*\* and it’s never-ending conspiracy arc soured me on them. **The Mentalist** once Red John went from a solitary serial-killer to a secret society - nope, I’m out. The **Battlestar Galactica** reboot. I think I got to the midseason break of the final season and realised that it was never going to have a satisfying ending and bailed. I did eventually read the plot from it’s wiki entry and don’t regret my decision. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/96 "2015-05-01T01:55:36Z")
_Glee_. The first two seasons were great, the third just okay. It was clear from the third season that the show was rapidly declining, and the word on subsequent seasons was so poor that we just didn’t bother. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/97 "2015-05-01T02:10:57Z")
Modern Family. I gave up near the end of last season, because it just wasn’t very good anymore. Watching reruns, I have come to believe it was never really as good as I’d thought, a few good jokes here and there (usually involving Luke) but overall, seeing it more than once a week really shows how it doesn’t hold up. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Spaulding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Miss\_Spaulding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Spaulding)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/98 "2015-05-01T03:31:46Z")
I rewatched the whole series since, but when it first aired I ended up fizzling out on _Heroes_. The first season is great in my opinion, but by the final season was just nuts. Shame, because I always thought Heroes had great potential. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/99 "2015-05-01T04:03:55Z")
I bailed on **Gotham** after the first episode, just wasn’t interested. Watched one episode of **Outlander** and decided it wasn’t for me. Watched half of **The Missing** and gave up after I was starting to feel jerked around. Haven’t bailed yet, but probably will soon: **Agents of SHIELD** , **Sleepy Hollow** (if they renew it and the new storyline doesn’t look interesting), **Vikings** (same). I was going to bail on **Falling Skies** but since they’ve announced the next season will be the last I might as well finish it up. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837/100 "2015-05-01T05:08:43Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I drifted away from **Archer** during the _Archer Vice_ season. Wasn’t even intentional, I just missed an episodes, then two… etc. Sort of mean to go back and see what I missed but apparently not enough for me to have done so yet. I did the same thing, couldn’t get engaged in it. Then I went back later and watched and found it hilarious as anything else the show has done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-bailed-on/718837.md?page=6)