Lost - Seasons 1 & 2 were great but it was about during the bear cage shit in season 3 that it was obvious the writers were making shit up as they go and there was no grand plot.
Six Feet Under - All the characters are whiny and self absorbed but I made it through the first two seasons before sitting down one night after a hard day and saying to myself, “you know what? I have my own problems and at least they’re real.” and turned it off forever.
Heroes - Suresh’s accent and monologues put a bullet to this series for me. Every damn episode begins and ends with the same, “we are all searching…questing…seeking an answer blah blah blah”
I used to love American Gladiators in the first few years, but then they completely changed the graphics, music, etc. for the 1993-94 season. They made everything more in-your-face to appeal to extreme sports-loving Generation Xers.
Then there was a revival of American Gladiators on NBC a couple years ago. This version was a complete travesty, and I shut it off after watching about 5 minutes.
Heh. Zach Braff played a Joe Francis clone in one episode of Arrested Development.
I think mine has been mentioned by most people here. I stuck with Scrubs until season 5 or 6 or so. JD started to become too stupid to live. Eliot became a neurotic mess without any redeeming features. Carla started to become a nag, and Turk was just boring.
The X-Files was the first show I ever dropped. It was painful since I was a huge X-Files nerd, but once Mulder left, there was no reason to keep watching.
Alias was dead to me by the end of season three or so. There was so much potential in the story lines but J.J. Abrams seemed determined to add just one more twist to every single episode that all logic and sense went by the wayside. Alias was the reason why I never gave Lost a chance.
The Office is starting to get to the point where I wish they would just wrap it up. Every once in a while, they’ll surprise me with a good episode, but I’m mostly watching out of inertia now.
I’m just so tired that they dont follow their own rules. Secret ingredients are pork chops, apples, sage and cheese puffs and then the judges start ripping the 3 chefs that used the cheese puffs because their course is not as good as the guy that didn’t use them. Isn’t the point that they have to use ALL 4 ingredients that don’t go together? Hell I could win if you allow me to ignore the odd ingredient and force my competetors to integrate it. Some guy didn’t finish in time but they still let him present and he almost moved on but heaven forbid if you don’t get that lime slice on that last plate.
I’ve also had enough with the judges grading the dishes based on how THEY would have cooked them. I mean you have one judge complaining it’s not spicy enough but another says it’s too spicy. How can you satisfy all of them?
Family Guy is the only one I can think of off the top of my head that I stopped watching because I just didn’t care to watch it.
Unless you count stuff on that’s always in repeats and you get tired of waiting for a new show. Thought stuff on Disney Channel is somewhat half-and-half.
I loved Wings the first and second seasons till Tony "Antonio " Shalhoub came on. I hated that character so much, I had to stop watching. I wish I could photoshop him out so I could watch it.
I don’t really know. I’ve been a rabid Red Sox fan for 60 years. Whenever they were on TV, I rarely missed a game. The past few years I’ve watched almost every game on my computer. But this year I started watching each of the first four games, all of which were close (and three with the Yankees!), and after a couple on innings decided I had better things to do and stopped watching. I don’t plan to watch today’s game at all.
Now that I think about, I stopped watching a lot of my favorite shows. X-Files - I watched the first 5 seasons religiously and bought the dvds, but still haven’t seen most of the last 3 seasons.
NewsRadio - Never missed an episode, until the loss of Phil Hartman. Haven’t seen many episodes from after that.
The Simpsons - Stopped watching many years ago, but I’m not sure why. I don’t recall thinking it was bad, I just stopped.
**BtVS **- Got annoyed with the storyline, stopped watching.
My wife watches the Food Network almost exclusively and she pointed out Jeffrey Steingarten is a misogynist. Since then I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Cat Cora battle where I wouldn’t have punched Jeff in his jowly throat if I were her.
[bizarre trivia: while looking up how to spell ‘jowl’ I discovered ‘gowl’ is the sleep gunk in your eyes when you wake up.]
Another show I gave up on midway through the second season is Ugly Betty. I almost didn’t make it through the first – thought the plot was ridiculous – but I liked the characters. I wanted more of Betty’s home life though. They were a lot more interesting to me than the people at the magazine. And I thought it was silly that the writers kept dressing Betty like a clown. I caught part of one episode this season and was glad to see she was only wearing two colors. I think Wilhelmina said something like “Is that our Betty, all monochromatic?”
ER - Stopped watching it right after Clooney left. It was getting ridiculous at that point. Real ER’s don’t have shootouts or explosions every other week. Also, the commercials and previews at the time always made it seem like something more dramatic would happen in the next episode than would actually take place. One example that still stands out in my mind showed Dr. Green’s daughter playing in a soccer game and falling to the ground. Cut to Green jumping up, then an ambulance and someone being rushed into the ER. What actually happened: she made a sliding block and other random, unrelated scenes were pieced together to make it look like a serious accident.
The Apprentice - Stopped watching after the first couple of episodes of the first celebrity edition. Just didn’t care about celebrities.
V - Haven’t quite given up yet, but definitely the last two episodes I was just “going through the motions” of watching simply because there really wasn’t anything else on. The Olympic break ruined it for me, I lost interest while it was off the air.
Friends - gave up on it before the last two or three seasons. Became to “cutesy” for me. A victim of its own popularity.
ER - jumped the shark for me when the helicopter fell on Romano. Haven’t watched it since.
The Practice - got tired of Dylan McDermott’s overwrought emotional scenes in every single episode, and Camryn Mannheim’s “big girls are beautiful, too!” plotlines, and Steve Harris’s overwrought emotional scenes in every single episode.
. Heroes - LOVED season 1, it went downhill fast after that.
The Apprentice - interesting for a season or two, but I got tired of watching a bunch of power hungry assholes snipe at each other.
**Desperate Housewives **- the characters were too annoying and the plots got too silly
**Grey’s Anatomy **- the characters were too annoying and the plots got too silly
Add me to the Lost and Heroes list. Both after their first seasons. Often when a show has a brilliant first season, I’m disappointed by the subsequent ones.
The Simpsons - Used to watch it in syndication every night. About 10 years ago I saw an episode in its regular time slot that was so awful that I lost all interest even in the old shows.
**Chuck **- I wanted to keep watching this season but I just lost interest.
**Scrubs **- I was a die hard to the end of the original. I wasn’t able to get through the first episode of this season.
**House **- Not really sure why I stopped watching.
There are lots of other examples of shows that I stopped watching in the middle of there run but the ones above bother me the most. These were great shows.
