Essentially, yeah. Strong means bullheaded in TV terms.
The Simpsons hardly count as a recent quitting for most of us, though.
Hawaii Five O. I like it but there were too many other shows I’d rather watch in the same timeslot. And one of my DVR tuners broke so I was already down on how many shows in a timeslot I could watch.
Maybe I need to rewatch the first season, but I don’t recall Justified having any X-of-the-week part to the writing. Maybe it just seemed that way, as they were introducing the characters? It was always fairly strongly season-long-storytelling, to my recall.
I didn’t start watching it until it went into heavy syndication, and I enjoyed the first 6-7 seasons, but I mostly stopped watching after that.
Right now I am watching the most recent one and good lord does the cast all look really old! I mean, not Golden Girls old, but certainly a lot less like the fresh, late-20s/early-30s kids they started out as and a lot more like the 30- and 40-somethings they really are. Stuart, Sheldon, and Leonard looked the worst (unsurprisingly, they’re the oldest IRL, in that order). Definitely an instance where HD video isn’t doing anyone any favors.
CLASS THREE - I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Downton Abbey yet, or did I miss it?
Pretty clothes and pretty locations can’t make up for sloppy, lazy writing, repetitive situations, characters whose personalities and motivations seem to change as often as Sir Julian changes his socks, and of course the endless plodding misery of the various Bates plotlines. The best bit was the untimely demise of Mister Pamuk in the first episode and things slowly started to go downhill. Even Maggie Smith’s zingers weren’t enough to save it for me. The death spiral continued until Matthew kicked the bucket. Was that Season Three or Four? I don’t even remember, I just want that part of my life back, please.
After that I stopped watching for good. Reading the boards at several TV sites during the last 2 or 3 seasons showed me that I wasn’t missing a darned thing, and was a lot less painful than watching Mary’s endless parade of stiflingly boring suitors.
CLASS ONE:
Preacher is on the fence
Wayward Pines made 2 episodes but to me its a Class One
House of Cards— for some reason, got turned off after 2 ep
Mad Man—made it through one episode. This officially marked the beginning of the “binge watching” era for me
LUTHER—to be fair, only saw ep 1 of season 2. But found it boring.
Downton Abbey—could care less about the housekeeping staff. Im only interested in the plot lines involving the rich.
CLASS TWO:
Vikings— we get it. Bad king. Good Viking warrior, clash of values, ZZZZZZZZZ
Penny Dreadful—notice to show runners. Not EVERY character has to be gay.
The Tudors----another victim of the lack of On-Demand feature, Made it through Season One, just never got to Season Two and at this point, no desire to do so.
Lillehammer—predictable and stupid
CLASS THREE:
Smallville after season 3. Totally addicted to the show when it started, the plot just went off the rails. It was fun when it it was just a high school kid origin story, then they killed off the Dad, brought in Lex Luthers Dad, it just went haywire.
Under the Dome jumped the shark once the Domers figured out how to escape the Dome, and come back. Got too far from the original premise.
The Last Ship is on the bubble for me. This is a classic example of a show that could have stretched season one over 2-3 season, but hot-shotted way too fast.
The Knick– we get it.
Deadwood—made to about ep 2-3 of season 2. Better stuff just came along.
Homeland—lost total interest when Brody met the crane.
Can I add a CLASS FOUR? These are shows that you still intend to finish one day but better ones just cropped up and took too much of your time:
JUSTIFIED (almost done season 2)
SOPRANOS (I think finished up to season 4, but its been 5 years since I stopped renting it now I ca n see it on HBO on Demand)
FARGO- saw the first 3 episodes,
THE LEFTOVERS— left off about 3 ep into season 2, and am told the rest of Season 2 is MUST SEE
CARNVAVALE— seen all but the final 2 episodes. Another victim of having to rent the discs 2010ish
SENSE 8–but with reluctance
Yup. I enjoyed season 1 as a posh soap opera. Then Lord Fellowes’ writing became spectacularly bad during the Great War. Lost interest when peace came but I did watch the very last episode. At least Baby Bates was not arrested…
Sleepy Hollow was a batshit concept that had a mostly delightful first season. Season 2 was atrocious. Season 3 feebly tried to improve but was even more boring–atrocity can amuse! I missed the last episode & planned to catch it on Hulu. After reading angry reviews I resolved to not see it & to skip season 4. Yes, it’s been renewed. (Oh, but batshit Galavant is gone, Agent Carter is gone & CBS is hurriedly dumping the last episodes of Person of Interest!)
I enjoyed the first of GRRM’s Song of Ice & Fire series, then enjoyed the first season of the show. The books became bloated so i thought I’d stick with the show. Which got so unpleasant that I gave up on that, too. There’s quality there but I like a *bit *more fun. (Person of Interest makes kneecapping seem sporting.)
It kinda was. In the first season Raylan Givens was still marshalling around, going after escaped prisoners (episode 2), Alan Ruck’s fugitive dentist (episode 4), or guarding the eccentric judge nicknamed “The Hammer” (Episode 10)- With Boyd Crowder being the occasional special guest star here and there.
It didn’t become an ensemble show (With, let’s be honest Walton Goggins as the main lead) with a season-long central storyline until season 2.
Gotham. I just could no longer find myself watching it.
Give it another chance, gets lots better.
It was. Leftovers was amazing last year, way better than the first season. Loved it. Must see for sure.
The books are actually fairly good- they’re historical fiction based on that period, and over time, chronicle the Viking invasions and the ascension of Wessex under Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder.
They’re told from the POV of Uhtred of Bebbanburg, mostly because the character gives Bernard Cornwell a way to describe the Vikings and their way of life as well as the Saxon one. Without a hybrid like Uhtred, it would be very one-sided.
And the reason Uhtred’s unknown to us is kind of a clever trick by Cornwell in the books. IRL, a Welsh bishop named Asser chronicled Alfred’s life and reign. In the books and TV show, he’s characterized as a complete dick who hates Uhtred, and basically writes him out of the histories out of spite.
Basically there’s a reason- with Uhtred, he can make stuff up from whole cloth where it doesn’t contradict history, but if he centered around Alfred, he’d be much more limited in the stories he could tell.
Seriously?
Kaley Cuoco is the one who got squarely hit by the Old Age Truck. Now I know she’s 30 now, and was 22 when the show started, but she was super-hot when it began, and while she’s still good looking, she’s not that stop-and-stare kind of hot that she was early on.
Damn, you don’t like House of Lies? That’s my favorite show on TV right now. 
I’ve only ever had three Class One shows as an adult: The Sopranos, The Affair and Game of Thrones.
I reckon I’d classify Outlander as a Class Two: having never read the books, I was intrigued by the premise, but it got a little too sadistic for me, very quickly.
I’m just glad that Castle was canceled before I could give up on it. Had there been a Season 9, it would have definitely been Class Three for me.
Though of another: Legends of Tomorrow. I stopped watching for the superior You, Me, and the Apocalypse.
Class One: Limitless - but it’s been cancelled.
Class Two: Rosewood, Supergirl, and Mr. Robot. I liked the first two well enough to watch several episodes, but I lost interest. The last one was too weird for me; we made it through about four episodes before we gave it up.
Class Three: Castle, Royal Pains, Suits. All of them lost me when they shifted too far from their beginnings. I have this season’s episodes of Elementary and Scorpion on the DVR, but I have no desire to watch them. Seriously, HGTV is a better choice at the moment.
I’d give up on Bones if I didn’t know that next season is the last season. It’s really gone on for longer than it needed to.
There are others, but since I can’t really remember them, they must not have been that important in the first place. 