4400, like Heroes, had an interesting premise about ordinary humans granted extraordinary abilities and how they would cope with them, seen through the eyes of a couple of feds. It started out as a case of the week kind of storyline but was also building to an overarching plot. Then the fed’s boss stabbed them in the back for some reason, then the baby grew up to be a sexy young lady who was getting married, something else happened, I dunno evil future dudes or something. Regular people hated the powered people, I think. Some were good and some were bad and the future people were bad or something because they wanted the future to happen. I think?
I couldn’t stand Billy Campbell in this and I forgot that I liked him in everything else. My wife and I watched Helix last month and I was like “Hey, I like Billy Campbell. I totally forgot.” This show squandered Garret Dillahunt, Jeffery Combs, and just about everyone else as well. Then it ended.
A bit of a thread that I started about the 4400 a while ago:
Sorry, but the stupid in Season 4 burned my eyes. I stopped watching when the “you son has your memory of the wormhole” nonsense. I did watch the finale, but the “Instant Crighton – Just add water” cliffhanger was probably the worst in TV history.
Yeah, Archer kind of baffles me. It sort of abruptly turned into a parody of itself, where the plots stopped being interesting and the humor has become 99% callbacks. It stopped inventing, and just started repeating itself. It went from “consistently so funny I had to pause it to finish laughing” to “sometimes I chuckle.”
It’s Always Sunny was always a little on the dark side, but Jesus Christ!, the recent episodes are damn near unwatchable. It has degenerated into some truly abhorrent shit.
Oh, I still watch it, and its funny as hell, but I can only imagine I’m the only one who still thinks so.
Most of the Comedy Central original shows have a similar trajectory. Workaholics is unwatchable anymore.
Sliders. It started out pretty good (though I wanted to throw something at the TV when they thought they were in an alternate reality because Quinn’s mother had oiled the squeaky front gate), but it turned into “All aliens in every timeline” and I was out, even before Jerry O’Connell’s brother showed up.
Personally I think Game of Thrones is in serious danger of joining this category. As Benioff and Weiss have run out of novels to adapt their shortcomings as writers have been cruelly exposed. I’m pretty much expecting the next season to be a total disaster.
*Bewitched * begins with Samantha and Darrin’s honeymoon, if I recall aright. And all the comedic tension comes from the fact that they’re a mixed marriage; the addition of Tabitha just ups to ante.
I can see what you mean withGet Smart. But I never much cared for it anyway.
