I recently dumped
Real Housewives of Atlanta
Elementary
The Following
Once Upon a Time
Pawn Stars
Storage Wars
American Pickers
Cupcake Wars
Sugar Dome
I know, not anything real highbrow, but I was entertained by them for a while.
Hmmm…lately?
Young Justice…which I actually still liked.
A number of reasons…first, it’s at an inconvenient time, and my methods of taping it are just as inconvenient.
Second? At the start of this, the second season…they skipped ahead five years into the future. No warning, no setup. And with a lot of changes explained via exceedingly clunky dialogue, including the deaths of two likable (if very minor) characters, and a breakup of two of the leads.
Third? Two episodes in…the network put the show on hiatus for three months. Along with the rest of the programming block. Again, with no notice or leadup.
Fourth…well, part of the setup of this season is the cunning mysterious conspiracy of the secretive bad guys coming to fruition. From what I’ve seen, it’s very well done, and on an arc-heavy, rather dramatic show.
However, this means that it’s going to be (at least from what I’ve seen, and have come to expect—maybe they turned it all around right after I stopped watching :smack:) a whole string of episodes of the heroes getting outfoxed and kicked in the teeth. Often publicly. With a week to wait for what happens next. Lovely.
Look, I don’t expect or want my entertainment to be all gumdrops and rainbows…but sometimes, I don’t want to really jump through hoops for the privilege of getting stomped on. This show did everything it could to shake me off, and it succeeded.
And now, if recent indications are true, it looks like the show’s been cancelled. Worst case? They leave a cliffhanger that we’ll never see resolved. Best case? It all came together in a brilliant, satisfying conclusion…and that’s all I’ll ever hear from it again.
Grimm, Girls, Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Deadwood…
I think I have commitment issues. 
I gave up on Burn Notice (or decided to – I’ll admit to watching smidgeons of an episode since) when Michael murdered his mentor and then sucked Sam, Fiona, Jesse, and Maddy into his fest of fugitiveness. I’d stopped liking Michael committed the murder, but his not being a man and acting to minimize the damage to his friends & family was the kicker. I didn’t like him any more.
ETA: I discovered this morning that I’ve given up on Young Justice, Green Lantern, and Star Wars.
I’m still enjoying Grimm, Once Upon A Time, and Elementary.
I seem to be over my interest in shows on hoarding, but picked up interests in Good Eats and Untold Stories of the ER. I’m not sure Monsters Inside Me is going to keep my attention much longer, though. I do get tired of the ViewersAreGoldfish thing, the overly dramatic narrator, and the amount of time spent on family member blubbering vs. anything informative.
add to my list:
Pawn Stars
Project Runway
I could never get into this, and was kind of ticked about that. This and Teen Titans seemed like good premises with poor execution. Young Justice just meandered thru all sorts of teen angst, TT’s anime aesthetic was annoying.
Downtown Abbey. I wasn’t impressed with the couple of episodes I saw in the UK last fall, and the spoilers I’ve picked up since then have helped me decide that I don’t care to see the rest of it.
Downton Abbey has degenerated from interesting period drama into pure soap opera.
I’m really only good for about 5 seasons of any show. I find most of them hit a slump around that point, and I’m not usually willing to stick around to see if they pull through.
I loved Burn Notice but gave up on it a couple of seasons back when I realized I had an entire season on my DVR and no interest in doing a marathon to catch up. Not sure which season it was, but I’ve never seen an episode with Jesse.
More recently, Criminal Minds. I’ve never been a faithful viewer, but regularly watched the reruns and would catch the new eps when I could. About 6 months ago it came on, and I realized I just couldn’t sit through an hour of grim torture and murder. It’s far too dark for me, and I haven’t given up on The Walking Dead yet.
Also Psych, which I loved and watched every week. It’s become same-old same-old, and I don’t think the relationship has helped. More importantly, USA’s tendency to air it for a couple of weeks when they get the notion, then drop it for months at a time doesn’t really pique my waning interest.
As of 50 minutes ago, maybe Downton Abbey. Apparently it’s the actor’s fault and not the writers’ though. Still.
Another vote for Criminal Minds. I got annoyed by the way they started showing so much of the un-sub and so little actual profiling. I briefly considered catching up on the episodes I’d missed this season, then I read about what they did with Reid’s phone girlfriend, and decided not to bother.
Hawaii Five-0. The show was already terrible and a guilty pleasure, but after Wo Fat’s millionth escape and killing off Malia approximately 3 minutes into her marriage during the season premiere, I was like, “Screw this writing, I’m done.”
I still have both these series set to record in my DVR, but then I delete all the episodes without watching them. NCIS is the only TV show I’m still watching regularly.
Girls. Yeah, I know everybody loves this show and the characters are like, supposed to be loathsomely self-centered and annoying and if you like, don’t think it’s a revolution in TV entertainment, OMG you’re like, a misogynist hater who can’t stand to see a chubby naked girl be successful, or whatever. Made it through a season and a half and couldn’t stand it anymore.
Make not make it to the season end of the Office.
The first few episodes of Boardwalk Empire are not good.
But it does get better. By the end of the first season it gets much better. By the second season it’s excellent.
Project Runway–I hung on for several seasons hoping that this season would finally get back to the actual design and construction process, rather than focusing on screechy queens clawing each other’s eyes out and seeing how many catchphrases can explode from Micheal Kors’s bloated orange face. But I accept that this will never happen.
The entire Thursday night NBC lineup. We just kind of got out of the habit of watching them during yet another ill-fated season of PR and never got back into that habit.
When? It took a little while to warm up. I almost dumped it about six episodes in, and then I was suddenly glad that I didn’t. Now I’m anxiously waiting for next season to start.
For some reason I completely lost interest in Sons of Anarchy. I’m not sure why, it just happened. I still have all of last season recorded, and I may watch it if there’s nothing else on, but for some reason it went from one of my faves to the reject pile. I think it had a lot to do with the way it seemed to be painting itself into a corner at the end of season four.
Is this week recent enough?
I gave up on Kevin Bacon’s new show - The Following. Boring characters in a slow-paced show.
I guess I can count **White Collar **- it started up again recently but I haven’t bothered.
I watched the latest episode and liked it. I think White Collar, like its spiritual sibling Suits, is better off doing case-of-the-week episodes than arcs.