Was it EVER lupus?
God, how I miss ‘House’. I would sit there and binge watch till the cows came home, I would.
Did House die of lupus in the finale? He should’ve.
Thinking about it, I guess I’ve bailed on New Girl. I didn’t stop liking it or anything (though it had gotten somewhat stale), but it was just on against too many other shows I watch, and the Fox channel on Roku is too annoying to deal with since it seems to make me reauthorize it every time I try to use it. Which is stupid since it’s not a pay network anyway. Idiots.
But I might catch up on the show if/when this season comes to Netflix.
I’m having similar issues with Bones, but I’m only a few eps behind there, unlike most of the season with New Girl. Also Bones has gotten more stale than most of the corpses they find.
I might be the only person ever to give up on The Wire. I wanted to like that show. I watched the entire first season gave up after half of the second season. I simply couldn’t get into it. I didn’t care about the characters or the plot. And it’s not like I’m not a fan of big HBO / AMC shows. I loved Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Dexter. Just not The Wire.
I gave up on Battlestar Galactica when it became apparent that the producers didn’t know what a Cylon looks like, which is a chrome-plated killbot with a red LED that scans back and forth for eyes.
I’m kinda partial to the platinum blonde big boobed sexbot version myself. To each their own, though.
True Blood - it was fun in the beginning, with lots of eye candy, but later two things happened simultaneously: the plots got more and more ridiculous and the show seemed to be taking itself more seriously. It became unwatchable to me in the penultimate season and I don’t think I’ll ever go back to watching it.
Arrow - I’m more or less up to date, but after the latest plot line the thought of going back to watch it feels more like a chore than relaxation, and that’s not what I signed up for. I basically hate the protagonist, and I don’t think I’m supposed to, so from now I’ll probably limit myself to crossover episodes with The Flash.
Castle - it was good as a humorous, light-hearted crime show, but the mystery story arcs got too much.
Criminal Minds - I quit after Reid’s secret girlfriend got murdered by her stalker right in front of him. I understand that in TV shows cases which involve the protagonists’ private lives will appear way, way more often than they ever would in real life and be handled in TV ways, but what was happening to the CM crew ruined my suspension of disbilief, which had to be quite strong for a show about a team of people who chase serial murderers with ridiculously extravagant MO’s every week.
Just for the hell of it, I watched the final episode of season one online (we quit at #6). That whole scene between Matt and Stephen was fucking hilarious. I’m still chortling over “How YOU smellin’?” Then I started watching ep 1 of season 2. Nope.
Wow. Story of my life here…
Guess I’d better leave out shows where I just gradually lost interest and there wasn’t a clear cutoff (The Simpsons, Survivor, JAG, Friends, American Idol etc.) and shows I never really liked in the first place (Family Guy, Forever, The Voice, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, etc.).
The Amazing Race - Third season finale. This is the one that will follow me to my grave. This one was a guillotine chop. I went from “constantly on the edge of my seat” to “intense, overwhelming loathing” just like that, something I’ve never experienced before or since. See, for all the requisite cheesiness and nigh-endless fudging that any reality show has to go through, I still held out some hope that TAR had some small degree of honor and that a completely undeserving team would never win. Fourth place, third, MAAAAAAYBE second, but not first. The instant I saw Zack and Useless Irritating Albatross come over the hill, that was obliterated by a hydrogen bomb. And then came the sobering fact that it was still only the third freaking season and it was only going to get much, much worse from here.
Haven’t watched a second of it since.
Samurai Jack - 17th episode, IIRC. I made the thread “Samurai Jack jumps the shark” for this one, and to this day I stand by every word. Let me make this clear: The instant a show puts in a constantly aggravating, insult-spewing piece of garbage who never, ever faces any kind of comeuppance whatsoever, I am gone.
The Powerpuff Girls - Shut The Pup Up. Same principle. Bonus points for the villains getting away with murder. This is a darker road than Ed Edd and Eddy should ever have gone down, much less what used to be an action-packed, positive cartoon about three girls who kicked butt and overcame problems together. I noticed that the girls got treated more and more like punching bags in the later episodes, so I guess STPU was just the nail in the coffin. (Did watch the special. It was okay, not great.)
South Park - 3rd? season Halloween episode. Homestar Runner was largely an offshoot of this (deliberately choppy animation, generic set pieces, almost completely male cast that gets on each other’s nerves a lot, screwball plots, running gags ocassionally rotated so they don’t get tiresome), minus the language, of course. So how is it that I have nothing but fond memories for HR and largely bitter disappointment for SP? Because the Brothers Chaps didn’t go completely overboard with the cynicism, and, more importantly, they didn’t allow the biggest jerk to be king. When Cartman went “hella hella hella” and the others, both still armed, I remind you did nothing but scowl, I knew this noble experiment had crossed a line and was never returning. I did catch a few episodes online afterward (after reading about them on TVTropes), but they completely underwhelmed me and just confirmed that I made the right decision.
The Last Man on Earth - 3rd episode. I’ll admit, after the first episode, I thought this one actually had the potential to make its offbeat premise work. I mean, it was no Herman’s Head or Knight Rider, but I figured it could at least stay servicably funny for several episodes. That got blasted into a volcano when I saw the hot chick show up. Oh, wow, he tied the knot just before the hot chick showed up and now he can’t have her! What a wonderfully original and hilarious idea! Blech.
Special mention
Get Out Alive - Can’t really “bail” on this, inasmuch as Bear Grylls isn’t planning to do another season, but I feel it deserves a mention. I was pretty hyped for this going in, and the last thing that I ever expected after watching the final episode was to say “no more”. And that’s what happened. I was completely, utterly unsatisfied by the conclusion and I did not believe for one microsecond that THAT team deserved to win one freaking million dollars. The only just result, IMO, would’ve been to split it up, but if someone had to win it all, that was absolutely the least deserving of the three possible choice. I remember defending his dubious elimination choice two weeks ago, simply because I wanted this to succeed, wanted this to be better, and all it did was make me look like a goddam fool. It was dispiriting to discover the Grylls, for all his swagger, was just another reality TV hack who’d been bought and paid for years ago. Oh, and all that stuff Cracked dug up didn’t help. Never had any interest in anything he did since.
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[li]Raising Hope - I forget which season it was - shortly after Jimmy got married I realized I just wasn’t having fun anymore.[/li][li]Futurama - I like a lot of animated shows but this one was just… meh[/li][li]Survivor - It was always the same old puzzles in the same old settings and the same old mechanizations - left like 2 seasons ago (to be fair I only started in 5 years ago)[/li][li]Pawn Stars & Storage Wars - Far too scripted and fake and gave up a couple of years back[/li][li]Battestar Galactica - Gave 1 1/2 seasons a try based on a friend’s suggestion but I just didn’t care for it[/li][li]That 70’s show - watched it and bailed in the season after the 2 male leads left - I can only stand so much terribleness.[/li][/ul]
I am sure there are others but I can’t recall them
The part of Criminal Minds that I find hilariously unbelievable is the part that screams “it’s in our contracts!”: the Unsub Round Robin. Each agent gets two lines describing the unsub for the local cops, and it goes around to each of them in perfect order. It is so utterly ridiculous and artficial, it makes the crazy unsub characters look perfectly believable. Especially in combination with the stupidly attractive team (Shemar Moore in particular is cartoonishly beautiful) and Garcia’s ability to not only find anything needed in seconds, but her ability to read, asses, and extract the data. Altogether it’s like a class on how to create a show that defies believability.
I watch it as a “laundry show”- something to have on while doing something else because it doesn’t matter what I miss. (I love Matthew Gray Gubler…and the wholly unbelievable Spencer Reid.)
Oh, and I used to think Joe Montegna was good… Until this. Sucktastic.
Another laundry show. The idea that there are that many people ready to sign up to become murderers is, of course, ridiculous. But fun.
I usually don’t care about such things but I actually felt happy when I heard that The Following was cancelled. The show was sadistic. I don’t mean the violence. I mean the weekly audience punishment it inflicted.
I haven’t watched Mythbusters since Kari, Tory, and Grant left.
Has it been on?
Gave up on The Walking Dead after they got to the prison. I was never that into it after the first few episodes anyway. Really only kept with it because I had a roommate who watched it.
I thought I read that the new season with Jamie and Adam started in Jan., but I haven’t bothered to search for the episodes. (I usually watch them online.)
Game of Thrones - I appreciate it’s very popular and don’t want to put anyone off, but the acting is pretty dreadful, and the plotlines reminded me of a bad episode of Dynasty, sorry!
Lost - good and original at first, but late in the second series the eternal cliffhanger ending just became tiresome.
American Horror Story - AKA Die Nasty :rolleyes:
The Wire - I tried to watch it and lasted about 2 and 1/2 episodes, the camera work was really offputting.
Boardwalk Empire - However much I love Steve Buscemi he seemed ill at ease in that role, maybe that was the desired effect but I tuned out pretty soon into the second series.
The Walking Dead - gave up after one episode.