I have been consist with this for many, many years. If I miss one or two episodes of something I am watching and don’t really care, I simply give up on it. So I would say most things that I watch I end up quitting on. But most of the shows in this thread I never even started with.
Recently I gave up on House, The Mentalist, Luck (4 episodes in), Awake (at the end of the second episode when it went all secret back story). I watched Enlightened for about 4 or 5 episodes. I watched the first couple of episodes of Touch and though I have the rest have made no effort to watch them so they will probably get ditched.
Earlier on I didn’t bother resuming watching Breaking Bad or Dexter because in both cases I didn’t care what happened to any of the characters and wouldn’t have minded if they all died.
This thread makes me realize I seem to have stopped watching Modern Family but for no reason at all, I was still enjoying it.
Private Practice – It’s turned into a bunch of stories about people’s angst about having or not having babies. Not to mention that a medical practice where all the doctors can devote their full attention to a single patient for days and have no nurses, technicians, receptionists, or insurance makes it hard to suspend disbelief.
Psych – It just got stupid.
Apprentice – In the early shows, the contestants had to be a bit clever and at least figure out the best place to set up a lemonade stand or something. In the celebrity version, the tasks are irrelevant (you have to wonder why they go through the motions) and all that matters is how many rich friends each side can convince to pay $10,000 for a hamburger they’ll never eat. And the celebrities fighting for no reason at all and being judged by a narcissistic buffoon…
Criminal Minds – There used to be some profiling and using psychology to figure out who the criminal was. The last few episodes I watched, the team shows up, looks around the crime scene and is ready to deliver their profile. Then the computer whiz searches all the world’s computers and figures out who the unsub is and a car chase follows.
Whitney – Obnoxious laugh track at inappropriate moments just emphasized how unfunny the show was.
Law and Order: SVU. How odd that this iteration is the one that evaded cancellation. I think I saw two episodes this season. I kind of wish they’d ditched this and kept Criminal Intent, but their deal with D’Onofrio might have been predicated on that never happening.
I tried to watch The Office - I had heard such good things about it. But after a few seasons I realized that I disliked almost all the characters and rarely laughed.
Body of Proof was OK, but didn’t grab me enough to still record it each week.
Altho Fishburne is a terrific actor, he took the show for a wrong turn- darker, more action oriented both. I also gave up on it. Oddly Ted Danson has been great in the show. Still not the scientist that Peterson was, he bring s quirky humor which is very nice.
Burn Notice. Come on guys, he’s no longer burned. Sometimes it is best to quit when you’re at a high point.
I used to watch House, but not faithfully so I gave up when the romantic angle got silly and the stories were more arc.
Monk started as a show about a detective who had quirks. Then it became a show about a quirky guy. Psych more or less did the same but I stopped earlier.
Bones was coming on at a bad time, and the romantic angle was also getting stupid. Guys, yes, Moonlighting was a hit. Quit insisting every other odd couple cop show has to follow in it’s footsteps.
I am still watching NCIS, but it’s no longer a Must See. But it had a great run.
White Collar. Yes, Neal and Peter are (were) on opposite sides of the law. Sure, maybe Neal will never completely reform. Ok, Neal and Peter may never become best buds. But there simple has to be a reasonable level of respect between the two. The whole Nazi hoard thing from last season had Neal showing no respect whatsoever, and Peter responding in kind. So to hell with them and their show.
I’ve heard that Neal in some way redeemed himself this season, but it’s too late. The writers screwed up and nothing on Earth could ever bring me to watch the show again.
CSI. They went too far down the path of “Let’s see how bizarre and/or gross we can get”. I was intrigued when I heard that Ted Danson was joining, and watched his first episode. Shoulda stuck to my guns, it was still way too much of a gross-out.
Weeds
Breaking Bad, which is a good show but I just can’t deal with the violence. I’m too much of a pansy.
I quit The Office when Steve Carell was on, but I’ve enjoyed it since he left. I just read they’re restructuring the show so I’m probably not going to stick around long.
30 Rock is losing me too.
I think I overdosed on Big Bang Theory. I watched the first season over a couple days and now when I see it’s on-- it’s on a lot-- I get a little sick. Plus they annoyed me one episode when they played Talisman and didn’t bother doing it correctly. Damn show has a physicist on staff to make sure that equations are legit but can’t be bothered to have somebody read a ten page rulebook. It brought home the fact that it’s just another sit com, albeit one I enjoyed for a while.
I was really impressed Breaking Bad’s pilot and still think it might be the best episode of a show I’ve seen. By the time I got partway through the second season, though, I was over it. I remember thinking they killed off Tuco way too soon and that they were taking too long getting the Mexican mob into the picture.
House
CSI
CSI: NY (I do still watch Miami, assuming it isn’t cancelled)
ER
I also have a month’s worth of Criminal Minds episodes stacked up in the DVR and no real urge to watch them at the moment. It’s getting really annoying how they always show a ton of the unsub right from the beginning, taking all the mystery out of it and just making it creepy.
I still like NCIS, but if Michael Weatherly ever leaves then I’m done. He’s too important as a counterbalance to Gibbs’ personality.
Sadly, Mad Men: I have a season pass from iTunes, but have only fully watched the first episode (and thought it was a good episode, though I just didn’t enjoy it). I watched part of episode 2, but didn’t bother watching all the way through.
The show still seems to be of very high quality, yet I just don’t enjoy it the way I used to. It’s weird how that happens. I have episodes 3 and 4 waiting to be watched, but I doubt I will any time soon.
