I liked the whole cast. It was essentially the first big break for both Kerry Bishe (Halt & Catch Fire) and Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings), and also Nicky Whelon (Hall Pass) but she never really went anywhere.
I thought the first season of Hannibal was fantastic but it went down the shitter hard in the subsequent seasons. The trippy background music drowned out the dialogue (it was LOUD) and Bedelia’s monotone voice actually hurt my ears. We only finished watching it just to see how they’d wrap up the story.
MacGyver did the same thing off and on late in the run (I think it started with the fourth season). You can’t blame Richard Dean Anderson for this, though, or Jack Klugman for Quincy: they were only doing what the writers wrote for them to do.
I’m guessing that Richard Dean Anderson probably complained to Paramount Television and ABC, and said something to the effect of, “I thought I was on here to come up with creative solutions to the problems I was faced with every week from a rogues’ gallery of villains. Why am I doing all this Very Special Episode social stuff now?” (Again, that’s just a guess on my part.)
Thanks for making me aware of this fascinating website! I wonder how a thread devoted to such clever software would be received. I can’t even think of a good title for such a thread, but I suspect there are others who find such subject matter intriguing.
I thought it started to deteriorate even before that, when they traded cute, smart pharmacist Ellie for that clenched harpy Helen.
Are you watching the current season? I agree that the couple of seasons after Lucifer got put back in the cage weren’t that great but the current one is. It has The Darkness who is Gods older sister. God tricked her and locked her away to make the universe but now she if free and she is looking for a showdown with him. She has a special bond with Dean. God is nowhere to be found. And Lucifer is free from the cage again and has taken back reign of Hell from Crowley.
The missing word is “you’re wrong”.
You’re wrong.
Supernatural has lasted long enough to go through its decay and rise back out of the ashes to be a cool show again.
The season with Dick Roman and the Leviathan is the worst season of the show.
Hannibal really suffered from never being able to decide whether the tone was supposed to be serious, surreal, or silly. The cartoonish and ghastly horror elements made it hard to take the more serious and grounded moment seriously. By the time they started retelling Red Dragon, it made no sense because the Red Dragon himself wasn’t even in the top 5 horrifying killers Will Graham had already taken down.
I vote for Glee, because while other shows may have gone downhill just as fast, Glee has the unique failing of becoming the show it started out parodying. It would be like MASH suddenly becoming an unfunny but pro-war show with Hawkeye joining the special forces.
I stopped Downton Abbey when they had a second grandchild whose parent died in childbirth and it wasn’t even the mother. The third sibling was right to do the Jazz Age equivalent of exposing hers at birth and letting shepherds raise it.
Seriously, did you WATCH the show?
Hiro, the time-traveler, was incredibly overpowered. He could fix ANYTHING. He was essentially superman, or a minor god. The only way to make it so every problem wasn’t fixed in 2 minutes by Hiro was to make everyone dumb as rocks. Then Peter could copy any power, so he could do the same thing. This is the problem with unlimited time-travel at the speed of thought.
Still, season one, when they were still learning about their powers, was a lot of fun. I suggest anyone watching Heroes simply stop after season one.
Indeed a fascinating website. I teach web development and this is going on my list of innovative sites that you need to know about.
What show would that be? IMDb doesn’t list it as parodying anything.
Nope, too much clothing. I think you meant Pamela Hensley. Love that photo because Tim O’Connor is checking out her crotch. Erin Gray swam well, though.
That was the point when I gave up, too. It was too painful, and lazy writing.
Actually, Sheldon would know that Doctor Who was the name of the character in the very beginning but he was never referred to as such within the show. If you don’t believe me, check the credits at the end of the first episode: https://youtu.be/t5igAaTxflw?t=365
It has already been mentioned, but I’d like to second/third/whatever How I Met Your Mother. That reached a weird sort of level that I was semi convinced it was a form of performance art, trying to see how bad they can make a show and still have people watch it.
Sheldon would also know that at the production crew’s first brainstorming session, they decided they wanted a “Doctor” who traveled through space and time in a Police Box, and then started casting around for a name: “Let’s see … ‘Doctor,’ ‘Doctor’ … ‘Doctor’ who?”
The British show WPC 56 went from bad to unwatchable in the 30 minutes I watched it.
Hmm. That does sound better. Is the Winchesters younger half-brother is free?
WALKING DEAD is beginning to get very repetitive which is a sign that decay is spreading from the walkers to the series. Every season seems to be “we found a place where finally we can be safe and have hope again/oops, overrun by evil people and zombies/lose a black male and blonde female regular/hit the road again/ maybe this place will be safe and we can start to rebuild again/oops!”
I think we’re past the end of the beginning.