I watched MAS*H long after it started sucking.
Supernatural. I still watch it for Crowley’s one liners. I have always liked dead pan delivery, probably because I thought I was impressing my dad by getting a joke watching Bob Newhart reruns.
Yes! Supernatural is definitely another one. Absolutely loved the first several seasons, but during the last season I had several “why do I still watch this show??” moments. Damned if I don’t plan to watch season 11, though. I have to. Aside from Crowley’s one-liners there are still occasional flashes of brilliance, so I guess I chalk it up to waiting for those.
I continually have this problem.
I’ll hate-watch Big Bang Theory
I slogged through The Following (thankfully didn’t remember to record the first episode of the second season)
Family Guy lost me a couple years ago but I still go through it for it’s once-an-episode laugh (plus American Dad was waaaaayyyyy better)
See, I don’t really have that mentality; what usually happens to me is that rather than making time to watch whatever show on the DVR, I skip it in favor of other shows or activities. Eventually a bunch of episodes (usually 4-5) build up, and my motivation to grind through the show is even less, so I end up just wiping the back episodes out. Once this has happened more than once, I usually delete the timer and quit recording it.
That’s how I quit watching House MD and several other shows.
Only a very few get the “F**k this stupid show.” treatment. “The Walking Dead” is the only one I can think of; I watched up through Season 3, Episode 8, and decided that it was too silly and soap-operatic to me. Once the walkers quit being a real threat, it lost all charm for me. I damn near quit watching Battlestar Galactica for the same reason when it started focusing on the politics, and not on the fight vs. the Cylons.
The only real exception to this rule is “Game of Thrones”. I quit watching it last season after the first episode or two, once I realized that it was giving too much away with respect to the books in terms of what subject matter they included or didn’t include in the TV show. Whole storylines in the books were rendered irrelevant by the inclusion or non-inclusion of certain characters, and I didn’t like that, so I deliberately quit watching. Not that I didn’t enjoy it, but rather that I’d really rather read the books first.
This for me. It’s got decent shows around it with Bob’s Burgers and Brooklyn 99 so it’s the family’s Sunday night tradition. I don’t think Simpsons is unwatchable but it’s definitely declined in quality over the past several years. To add to that, I started listening to the Worst Episode Ever podcast recently and I like their take on bad story beats, lazy writing, and missing character moments that recent episodes showcase. It also gets me when my 8 year old son says “remember that one time in the Simpsons when Homer [mentions something from the last year or so]. That was funny.” when he hasn’t seen some of the best, funniest, classic stuff yet.
Pretty much ready to give up on Walking Dead. Watched through last season by inertia, and hoping one of the characters would grow a brain. Didn’t happen. Not sure I much care to watch another Rick-goes-psychotic arc, no matter how it turns out.
Only possibility that would intrigue me is if the storyline expands to a much bigger Town-v-Wolves (and watch out for Walkers!) kind of scenario. A (or Another) “the group fights over stupid decisions they can’t even recognize as stupid while bigger things happen around them”… pass.
I want to like Gotham a lot. But the flailing continues.
Sleepy Hollow gets a chance - about 2 eps’ worth - to redeem itself.
GoT is the Mrs’s darling and I watch with my eyes turned off, going Mmm-hmmm from time to time.
It’s still good, but the new woman is not a good sub for Ziva. I agree. I am getting bored with NCIS NO already tho.
Yep, but be careful, there’s lots of Skye lovers here. I tuned in as it was going to be about Coulson and the AgentS of SHIELD not just super special butterfly Skye. I havent bothered yet with the new season.
This thing here is a big part of it. I still sort of like the NCIS ensemble as a group, even if I’m not wild about every person. The ensemble interaction was much better when Kate & Tony did their back-and-forth thing and even better with the tension between Ziva & Tony. I used to like it when Fornell would pop in and swap ex-wife tales with Gibbs. Are any of Gibbs’ exes still alive? Now many of the ensemble are paired off, (Jimmy’s a new dad), so no permitted sexual tension among the regulars, Tony doesn’t have good lines anymore, the Tony/Tim cool guy/geek interaction is over, there’s little of Ducky, and even Abby (whether you like her or not) doesn’t have much presence. Gee, having written all of that out-- why the heck AM I still watching this piece of crap? :dubious:
If I get attached to a show, it’s usually because of the ensemble/setting. Sometimes I like the characters so much that I keep watching just to get to hang out with them, even when I’ve seen the shows multiple times and the series isn’t being made anymore. It’s as if the characters have gone on living inside my TV and I have to keep checking up on them. Maybe someday they’ll do something different–you never know.
I’m this way with Inspector Lewis. I love the interplay between the down-to-earth Lewis and the troubled-intellectual Hathaway. I’m a sucker for a troubled intellectual, especially if he has religious issues. But most of all, I love the Oxford setting and the way the crimes touch on academic issues. So I just keep watching them over and over…
I’ve tried watching Morse, but I detest the character so much that the setting didn’t trump his obnoxious personality, his full-of-himself womanizing, and his rudeness to Lewis.
I watched Happy Days regularly until they had that one episode where Fonzie was waterskiing and he leapt over some sort of marine animal.
At that point the show…I dunno how to phrase it…wasn’t as good as it was before.
mmm
I stuck with Glee until the end. My only explanation for this is that, deep down inside, I hate myself.
Maybe someone will come up with a handy term for that sort of thing…
Grimm. It wasn’t that good, but liked the concept, so I kept watching, hoping it would improve. It never did. I’ve seen every episode.
I think RuPaul’s Drag Race peaked a few seasons ago and last season definitely felt a bit stale. Still, I cannot imagine missing an episode.
Another TBBT vote here. I watched all of last season, which was at least one season too many; I haven’t bothered this season. Before that was Supernatural. I stopped watching about three seasons ago, but really should have quit around season five. I’m not typically one to wait for a show to turn around, as I’ve never seen one do so.
Interesting observation… I don’t think I have either. Once they hit that iceberg, it’s time to forget the buffet line and head for the lifeboats. They’re goin’ down.
Can anyone think of a show that was good, turned to crap, and then got good again?
Top Gear. Several times, in fact.
Ditto on “The Big Bang Theory.” It’s gotten to the point, like “Two and a Half Men” where it’s way past its shelf life, but I’m still taping it for lack of something else better or more promising. If it wasn’t for Fast Forward, I doubt I’d watch it at all.
The other day I was amused to hear that “Two Broke Girls” re-runs can now be watched all 5 days of the week. I thought it was “meh” from day 1, but I guess it’s crawled along long enough that it can now by syndicated.