Agree with The Andy Griffith Show. The color episodes (with out Barney) are unwatchable.
My wife and I are currently binge watching Third Rock from the Sun. Brilliant show until you hit the final season. Then it’s just the characters doing “wacky things” for the sake of doing wacky things.
Exactly!! Man, I have rarely hated a TV persona more than Jon Voight’s character in that show. And Ray’s wife is a close second, btw. But the first season was very solid. I kept watching thru the 2nd season, but gave up after that.
Season 9 of Scrubs was intended(and kind of is) a spin-off. It’s called Scrubs Med School or something. They wouldn’t let the creator call it a spin-off, but he did get the subtitle in the opening anyway.
It’s better than you might expect. Dave Franco is hilarious on it.
Think of it as season 1 to a new show.
I think the current winner is Castle. The first 5 season are very enjoyable. The last two or three, since Castle and Beckett got together, have gotten worse every year. Season 7 was so bad that Mommypants and I quit watching altogether.
PBS is still broadcast. You can watch it without cable. So I’ll be glad for Masterpiece to continue.
The bloated mess that is Downton Abbey is winding down, so perhaps programming will improve…
And I think this final season is actually better than the previous few, although not as good as it in some sense should be. Having an end point in sight presumably helps.
Another show which was never really bad but which has gotten a strong second wind in its final season is Mythbusters.
Heavens yes. It took the usual long-running show dive of characters with quirks becoming solid caricatures of those quirks. Plus any excuse to shoe-horn a guest spot into an episode whether it needs it or not.
Too bad it peaked and dived when it did – they could have had some fun with the NFL draft being in Chicago this year. Well, if we weren’t already burnt out on a thousand football players mumbling their way through their guest spot lines.
Thank you, maybe I will give it a chance.
“Under The Dome” became unwatchable about halfway through the first season. I had to actually turn it off mid-episode and delete it from my favourites.
Well, aside from the part where the only way that show could seem LESS like it’s actually set in Chicago is, well, if they stopped using the same half dozen exterior shots they’ve been using since season one.
I remember one episode where they were ordering pizza…and got Pizza Hut. It’s one of the only times I’ve heard my girlfriend yell “bullshit!” at the TV.
The decay was almost immediate. What a terrible show. I hated it right after the pilot.
The book sucked, too, and I’m a HUGE King fan.
Adjust your expectations.
There’s a lot to enjoy about the first season, but Heroes had serious problems right from the beginning. It did certain things really well, but the problems with writing, certain characters, and pacing are there - and not only did the writing/production staff never learn from past mistakes, they sometimes made them worse. Then the second season got slammed by the writer’s strike and any chance they may have had to fix the show pretty much died.
If you’re expecting a great show, you’re going to be disappointed. If you’re expecting something that’s mostly ok-ish that’s occasionally amazing, then you’re watching the right show.
I thought they made two mistakes:
I liked the book, but the series was unwatchable. We called it “Under the Dumb.”
Also the way the second season started annoyed a lot of people. The show is ten years old but I’ll spoiler it for Idle’s sake.
What with switching up the focus to new main characters and how whiny they were put me of the show until later in the season.
Another vote for Glee, which went from cute light entertainment to “If they just made this show up as they went along it would be better” by the end. The only thing that would have made me watch the last season would have been nudity.
Supernatural was a good show in its prime but has lasted twice again too long. Plots are ridiculous, nobody ever stays dead, and everything associated with the show just seems tired.
The missing word is “showrunners” or perhaps 'writers".:smack:
Time travel always shits up any scenario. Since it can solve* any*thing, they keep having to put strange restriction on it. Still there are paradoxes anyway.
Book wasn’t terrible until the end.
Broadchurch
The first season had problems, but it was really, really well done.
The second season? What the hell even happened? I’d be more surprised if it wasn’t Chibnall, but christ.
You can very clearly and visibly see the decay in the IMDB graph, including the godawful “Sophia is dead” episode which was an outlier even in the abysmal final season.