Ugh, not my best wording for a thread title, but the gist is this: What TV show have you once been impassioned about–as in, SHHHH! Such and Shit is on!!–but then completely lost interest in once the writers took one bad turn too many in the space of a season.
Two that immediately come to mind for me are: Heroes. Greatest show EVER in its first season, we were convinced. Monday nights were sacred. Then, the second season took us on a long tour of ancient Japan. We stayed with it, pinching our nose and gritting our teeth. Third season seemed much, much better, but after a while…meh. It wasn’t that we hit an “Oh, ICK, no more of this!” moment. Rather, it simply piled up in our DVR playlist, and we found other recorded shows more interesting. They lost us somewhere with the Sylar/Kristin Bell thing, he’s bad, NO HE’S GOOD!, no maybe he’s bad thing. Or something. I don’t remember. Meh. So, we never saw the last few seasons or the finale of that season.
Big Love. I was never as impassioned about this show as Heroes, but I liked it plenty. And wow, this past season it just went straight into the shitter. Weird turns and crappy effects, ridiculous storylines, incongruous timelines that must have been written with Hiro on Heroes in mind. I watched every episode but the season finale, and like with Heroes, just figured…meh. There are other things in my playlist I’d rather watch.
Jericho. The thought of how a town would survive in a post nuclear attack seemed interesting, as the government broken down, and we were treated to a might makes right battling the ideas of laws. The lack of an outside world allowed the show to focus on what would happen in a relatively small town, where the greatest likelihood of surviving and thriving would be possible.
Unfortunately, the show never displayed an actual war, merely a series of terrorist attacks, I think. It would have been much much more interesting to see how China would have tried to take over small town USA.
Lost, Season 2. I checked to see how close I was to the end of the season, and it turns out the episode I quit watching during was “?”. That episode title pretty well explains the way the show was heading.
Aye, and aye, although I made it nicely through the first two seasons of Lost, and there was one I saw on DVD (4th, I think) that was completely decent. Unfortunately, it’s not the current season. Call me for the final hour. I’m hoping it bookends the finest fucking hour of TV of the decade (IMHO), which was the pilot hour of Lost.
House, I dunno, when it was small moments of character reveal amidst the freak disorders of the week, it was fine. But then I felt like I was watching a soap opera about some guy with a personality disorder and the people he emotionally terrorizes- ech.It was almost distasteful. But that episode with Mira Sorvino as the Antarctic doctor was good- maybe because she wasn’t putting up with his shit.
I’m just wondering how long it takes Glee to make it to this list.
Did anyone keep watching Heroes after Season 2? Cause I pulled the plug on that show as well.
I also stopped watching Madmen midway through season 3, after loving the first two seasons. I just hated what had happened to Don and Betty’s relationship.
Ugly Betty. The first season was wonderful, but they really lost their way in the second. I was first on the couch on Thursday nights for the first season, but quit watching before the end of the second. The third season went back to the quality of the first, from what I’ve heard, but by that time the enthusiasm was gone and I never actually watched a full episode.
Supernatural. I quit in the early 3rd season when the terrible writing became impossible to overlook anymore, and the overwrought angst became embarrassing. From what I’ve gleaned about the rest of the show through internet osmosis, I regret nothing.
Dead Like Me. I thought the show was utterly brilliant and loved the first three episodes… and then the writers ran out of ideas. It was still good, but every single episode began to feel like the last. I made it through about episode six before I gave it up.
Dexter. I could deal with him when he was killing bad guys, but when he decided to frame an innocent man for his crimes and send him to his death, I lost all interest in the character.
Breaking Bad. Walter was cooking meth to secure for his family as he couldn’t pay his medical bills, yet when he’s offered a job that will cover them, he refuses out of pride and continues to cook meth instead. Sorry, I know someone struggling with an addition, and I lost all sympathy once again. C-ya Walt.
We’ve given up on House too for the most part. At least my wife has. I still watch a bit. We also gave up on Big Love and Heros. I do wish she’s give up Grey’s Anatomy though.