What TV Shows have you given up on lately?

Cafe Society
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Sometimes you get into a show and just must keep watching. We devoured “House of Cards,” “Better Call Saul,” etc. etc.

But sometimes, you’re like, meh. Now, there are three kinds of the TV show abandonment:

CLASS ONE: You give up on the show during or after the first episode. Last week we tried “Lucifer” and didn’t make it twenty minutes in. Last year we tried the Don Cheadle one about consultants and never bothered to watch Episode 2.

CLASS TWO: You give up before the tenth episode. We gave “Outlander” three episodes before concluding the main character was horrible and the voice over simply too distracting and awful. The Glenn Close one with lawyers we gave three episodes and surrendered.

CLASS THREE: You watch the show for more than a season and you like it but eventually it turns sour and THEN you give up. After two seasons of “Suits” we realized it was no longer about lawyers but was just a soap opera and gave up. “The Blacklist” was just too stupid to continue after a couple of seasons.

What have you given up on recently and what classifications do you give them?

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Big Bang Theory is Class Three. I am just sick of it. So was The Good Wife.

I don’t know how to classify the new version of The X-Files, but I gave up on that as well after watching a couple of the first two or three episodes. So maybe Class Two.

Regards,
Shodan

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I’ll second Big Bang as a class three. They’ve pretty much exhausted all the jokes the premise lends itself to at this point.

Elementary. I loved the first season. The second was interesting too, but somehow my interest began to wane by season 3. Not entirely sure why.

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CLASS ZERO: Wayward Pines. I DVR’ed it, never watched it and deleted it.

I caught a couple of the last episodes while brewing beer a couple days ago, and don’t think I missed much.

I predict I’ll be giving up on Preacher in the near future.

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Heroes Reborn. I watched the first 3 episodes, then took the rest of them off my Netflix list. Too many new characters, too confusing a plot-line. I was hoping it would be better than the last 3 seasons of the original show, but I was disappointed.

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CLASS THREE: Modern Family

I’ve come to the point where I don’t like anyone on this show.
All the kids are really irritating.

I do like Stella the dog.
CLASS THREE: Veep

I guess I’m not a hipster TV viewer, but this isn’t remotely funny to me. Too much “Let’s see now many funny lines we can put in the show”.
Again, I don’t like anyone on this show. I gave it a shot, but it can disappear now.

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Usually, I watch a show through the full season, regardless of how much I like it, simply because it doesn’t cost me anything extra and it’s still entertainment. I mean, it’s not like someone is driving nails into my eyeballs or anything.

But I did quit The Game about 4-5 episodes in. It started off seeming like it would be a good, intelligent spy thriller. But it quickly became apparent that the writing didn’t match up the mood that the director was achieving. The characters had already basically given everything to the bad guys, and deserved to be assassinated for it. The writers never even noticed and had the story going on like everything was just as it should be.

I’ll probably quit Wynnona Earp after the season ends. Granted, I doubt that it will be renewed for a second season. But overall, it’s just not very good. The writers are failing to do much with the premise. Whoever cast the actors should never do casting again. The main lady and Doc Holiday are good, but everyone else is pretty crap. The first 3-4 episodes were basically wasted - though it does finally get moving a little bit after that. And it has the world’s least subtle, silliest lesbian setup ever put to film (nor is there any payoff for it). It looks like they were trying to recreate the Lost Girl magic, but tossed it to their B team to try and develop it into a series.

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We were going to catch up on Game of Thrones - we were on season 4. We got two episodes in and decided, no. It’s honestly too sadistic.

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I really enjoyed the first season of Scandal. The second one was OK. I gave up during the 3rd. I just couldn’t care about anyone any more.

I don’t think I got thru the second episode of Mad Men. It didn’t click with me.

I’m kinda tired of House of Cards, but I plan to watch the next season - will it be the last?? I might try Orange is the New Black, but I struggled to watch the last few episodes of the last season.

There are far too many on Netflix that I tried and turned off the first episode. There’s a lot of crap programming out there…

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I hate that dog. For me, the rest of the show is fine. Some episodes better than others, but I enjoy it each week and like most of the characters just fine.

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Supernatural- it’s hard to be suspenseful when it seems every character on the show has been killed and brought back a dozen times, though I understand it’s gotten better in the last season or two.

Odd Couple- tried to watch it for old time’s sake, but it just doesn’t work with that cast and in a 21st century setting. Both men would just go on a roommate finding site and get a new roommate or a date site and get a girlfriend and see each other at the occasional game night or mixer.

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CLASS ONE: Rosewood

I love coroner shows, so gave this one a shot, but I literally didn’t understand most of what was going on in the first episode, so that was it.

CLASS ONE: Life in Pieces

Dianne Wiest! James Brolin! I thought I could enjoy watching either of them in anything. Apparently I was wrong. I found the first episode smarmy, offensive, and definitely not worth watching.

CLASS TWO: Late Night with Stephen Colbert

If anyone had told me that Stephen Colbert would get a network late night talk show and I wouldn’t enjoy it, I would’ve said they were crazy. But after giving it a week, I just didn’t care anymore. I guess I really did like “Stephen Colbert” better than Stephen Colbert.

CLASS THREE: The Good Wife

I watched the first two seasons and then realized that I couldn’t stand any of the characters, so I gave it up. I came back to watch the final three episodes, and felt like I got as much of that show as I needed.

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I think I am done with Modern Family. It isn’t as funny anymore and the stories are really tried. I have been deleting episodes half watched.

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I could have written this, except I tried it a few months ago.

Supernatural - Class 3
I may be the only one, but I liked the “monster of the week” style and lost interest when angels and demons, God and saving the world became the focus.

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Hm. Can’t think of anything I’ve given up on. I’ve gotten good at deciding up front if I want to even watch the first episode. I’ll watch the trailer or read about it on wikipedia or something.

It’s similar with books. Even if it sucks, if I’ve started it I want to find out what happens. I might start skimming but I won’t quit.

**Sampiro **mentioned Supernatural. I haven’t quit, but I’m a season behind. Sometimes I get so far behind the probability of my catching up equals infinity. But I didn’t quit!

(I will catch up on Supernatural eventually though. Summer is a good time to catch up.)

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Class Two: Turn: Washington’s Spies. I’ve been enjoying it, but it’s too much of a time commitment to take it beyond about the sixth episode. Got as far as a rousing rendition of To Anacreon in Heaven, which led to a fascinating hour of Wikipedia research on the roots of our national anthem.

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Class One: Mozart in the Jungle. I love the real Gustavo Dudamel’s story. This isn’t it. Terrible “dramatic” “comedy” “about” the New York classical music scene.

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Class Three: Breaking Bad. (Please don’t hate me). Loved the first season and liked the second, actually, but couldn’t get excited about a third. It was time for me to move on to other things.

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Re: Modern Family- I think it would improve if they gave Cameron and Mitch their own spinoff, and then cancelled that spinoff. They just aren’t a couple I would ever want to know.

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Understandable, but it really has improved. This year might be the best season outside the first 5. Sounds almost sarcastic, but it was season 11.

Mine:

Class Three:

Penny Dreadful - high hopes, watched 2 seasons. What a bunch of crap. My genre, my style. It became hate watching almost for me. It’s just very poorly written. I feel bad that Timothy Dalton is on it. He deserves better. We actively hate Dorian Grey, who is supposed to be a protagonist. We despise him. I could almost not watch that actor in anything else. We even skipped whole sections with him, but to no avail.

**House of Cards **- Two seasons for us. It needs to have shorter, 6 episode seasons. They could focus on the core story. Every time Kevin Spacey is on it, it’s a good show. The second he is off screen, it’s a snoozefest. Too many boring storylines. For Mrs. Mahaloth and me, the show ends with:

Underwood is President. He knocks on the desk, camera goes to black, show over. I can’t believe there are more seasons.

Under the Dome - Wow, horrible. Really, just the worst. I regret watching any of it. I did watch all the first season. We knew by episode 6-7 that it was abysmal, though.
Category 2

The Grinder: Funny. Premise wore out quickly. Skip it, folks.