Of those, I’d say The Beverly Hillbillies was a very funny show for the first two or three seasons, was OK for a couple more, and pretty lame for the end of its run. I would say their shark moment was when the family went to England in Season 6. But I’ll say again, the show was very good for the first few seasons. It walked a fine line in showing that the main characters were unsophisticated and under-educated, but they were honest, open-minded, generous and clever.
I agree with The Shield and Justified, and never watched Fringe. But Person of Interest? Wow, I thought that show jumped the shark big-time when it stopped being about protecting people and got into the weird storyline with the British guy. I kept watching, but I thought the last two seasons were a train wreck.
Other than watching Amy Acker every week. She was worth the price of admission even when the rest of the show was crappy.
I thought it had to change. It was getting stagnant with the number of the week.
When the met the heapsters aka the garbage pail kids, who for some reason spoke only in short phrases, they definitely jumped the shark, as well as the whole Tara at Seaside episode. No way we’re those episodes remotely on par with the best of them, especially episode 1 of season 1. Gimple is no Darabont.
Though it had some bizarre twists and turns, like Nate’s death, I don’t think Six Feet Under ever jumped the shark.
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The show “The Strain” probably isn’t for everybody, but the last season was as good as the first 3.
The fourth and final season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus had only six episodes and was Cleese-less.
I thought the first episode of that season, “Golden Age of Ballooning”, was their absolute nadir, if one can be found among their body of work. (Can anyone name anything weaker they did?)
However that season also had its highlights, like the Most Awful Family in Britain Contest, the Toupee Dept. in the “Micheal Ellis” episode, the RAF banter/Woody-Tinny gathering, Mr. Neutron, and the Batsmen of the Kalahari, but I often watched all that wondering what Cleese could have brought to the mix.
I’m sure if the exemplary, sublimely acted Get a Life had a third season it would’ve walked off with all the Emmys.
So you guys didn’t see season 5? I agree that The Wire was probably the best TV show ever made, but the last season was, well, perhaps not horrible, as I was about to write, but far, far below the standards set by the previous four. And even if it was still better than 90% of the rest of TV drama, it was a significant enough drop to be called JTS, as much as it pains me to say so.
Homer vs Dignity, the infamous episode where he gets raped by a panda, was the one that sealed it for me.
Ah, I loved The Office but they should have pulled the pin on it when Steve Carell left. Same with That 70s Show after Topher Grace left. One rule should be when the actors playing high school students in a TV series reach their 30s, call it quits.
I would go with:
Boston Legal
Person of Interest
Shameless
And as already mentioned, WKRP