Do you remember which episode was that? I want to read the plot description.
The two best examples instantly come to mind, because I remember feeling so disappointed:
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Lost. I went from being enthralled by the gripping mysteries of the first season, to the quick realization in the successive ones that the show really did not have a plan and they were just making shit up as they went along.
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The new Twin Peaks. "Holy shit, they’re bringing back Twin Peaks? I was psyched…but I soon found that the tone of the show and its attempt at a storyline were absolutely nothing like the original, which had eccentricities and forays into surrealism at a more restrained level. Not EVERYTHING has to be an inter-dimensional metaphysical mindfuck, David. Sometimes you need some comic relief.
It was “Manny Get Your Gun,” season 2, episode 8. The shirt was from a summer-camp game where teams were identified by colors.
Great timing; this just happened. I started watching Star Trek Discovery. It seemed interesting for 4 episodes. Then curiosity got the better of me and I checked Wikipedia to see what I was in for. Once I saw that they were going to jump to the far future. in other words time travel bullshit, a well ST has gone to too many times, I bailed on the show. So glad I saved myself many hours of aggravation and disappointment.
Since previous posters have mentioned Westworld,
Dark, and Stranger Things, I would have to concur, with this qualification:
I am into shows for the atmosphere, most especially for period pieces. And that’s something that, initially, I liked in all those shows. Lavish recreation of sleek modernist German town in the 80s? I’m in! Nostalgic trip to 80s childhood, E.T. style? Yes, I’m in!! Vivid ambience of the Wild West? Yes! Yes please!
But then to rip me out of all of that and make it all about some combination of interdimensional monsters, robots, and post-apocalyptic or dystopian shit??! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Also, the more timelines a show has, the less I like it. I hate when there are so many going on at once, that you can never be sure when the hell anything is ACTUALLY happening and whether a character’s life is actually at risk or anything is actually at stake, it takes all the stakes out of it because, hell, if something goes wrong, well, it’s just one of many timelines. Same goes for excessive reliance on the “is it a dream or hallucination/simulation, or reality?” plot device.
I’d also add “…or mental illness?”
There are a couple of shows on Amazon Prime that I gave up on (“Undone” and “Forever”) that fall into that category.
If you mean Philomena Cunk (real name: Diane Morgan), I find her hilarious. As a vehicle for Charlie Brooker’s deadpan shtick, I love her to bits. But Borat and Ali G - not interested.
The old Twin Peaks jumped the shark at the end of the first season by not resolving anything. At all. After that, there was no chance I was going to watch the new one.
I liked “Undone”, but the ambiguous ending ruined it.
The second season of Twin Peaks was a mess, but at least it was a funny mess. There was a lot of comedy written into it. The latest season was just…grim, bleak, unrelentingly weird with no light at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you. You’ve just saved me the trouble of deciding if I want to watch Discovery after finishing up my DS9 rewatch. I haaaaaaaaate the time travel episodes. If I want time travel, I’ll watch Doctor Who thankyouverymuch.
Yep. I cant stand her. I am sure she is very talented but it is the stupid act i cant stand. I didnt find Dumb and Dumber funny either.
I kept watch AoS for a couple of seasons and gave up when the female half of FitzSimmons got stuck in some alternate dimension.
The Hydra/Shield reveal made me avoid the Captain America: Winter Soldier film for a long time. I was annoyed that they spoiled the main plot device in the TV show only a few weeks after the movie came out. Not everyone can see a movie opening weekend!
I completely lost all interest in “Lost” when I realized who was going to get off the island. “Making shit up as they went along” also describes the last season of “Manifest”, although I’ve heard they’re going to do a 3rd season, so I’ll see what happens there.
The original “Twin Peaks” was just too off-the-wall for me, and that’s saying a lot.
Not interested, and my problem isn’t bad contestants. (In reality TV, personalities matter, the producers cast based on demographics and the potential for drama, actual ability to do what the contest is about is secondary, this isn’t news to anybody.) I simply can’t get invested in any competition which must have close nail-biting finishes and will punish good players and/or prop up bad players to get them. (This is also one of the reasons I don’t watch Hell’s Kitchen anymore.) On American Ninja Warrior, while the announcers may downplay blowout victories, if Labreckfast Club ends up wiping the floor with Dark Horse, que sera sera. And Dwayne Johnson has never cut an ounce of slack to anyone on The Titan Games, leading to some of the most lopsided victories I’ve seen in any nationally televised competition ever. Hey, Vince McMahon never gave him any freebies, why should he dish out any? But The Amazing Race with its endless bunchups not only is all but guaranteed to produce fluke winners, it pretty much gives me no reason to watch anything but the final episode. A long time ago I argued that a Tour De France-style system, where everyone started from the same spot each round with the overall best time deciding the winner, would be much fairer and have the potential for a thrilling down-to-the-wire race every leg. Has this happened? I’d sooner believe that Dancing With The Stars is going to switch to top-to-bottom ranked judging.
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I honestly had no idea. All right. The one on Fox. In the 90’s. Under the “Fox Kids” label. It was the first one. At least I’d never seen anything like it before. The first episode was The Tick vs. The Idea Men. The remaining season 1 episodes followed the same naming scheme…The Tick vs. Proto-Clown, The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale, The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil, etc. It introduced American Maid and Die Fledermaus, who quickly became prominent supporting characters. Clear now? 
In a sense, the fact that so many people thought that a show about an eccentric, clueless, “endlessly quotable” superhero was can’t-miss and every attempt fizzled out pretty quickly highlights just how difficult it really is to make a series with lasting appeal.
I liked the first season of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot because the plots were always dumb but hung together enough to suspend disbelief, and the scenery was nice and McGarrett and Danno’s dynamic was amusing. I watched every episode. Then they introduced this pointless Lori Weston character in season 2 with a terrible actress, and the plots got worse and worse, and it turned out that Alex O’Loughlin’s unnecessary weight loss was due to injuring his shoulder during filming and trying to gut it out by developing an opiate dependency, and they had to invent an even worse storyline to explain why McGarrett disappeared which was really because the actor was detoxing. And then they built up a wife storyline for Chin which looked like it could go somewhere and killed her off in the first 10 minutes of season 3. Just haphazard garbage. I quit at that point. Can’t believe it went 10 seasons. And I loved CSI: Miami, so I know bad TV.
I gave up on Hinterland after 1 episode. I like that genre and have seen almost every episode of Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse, Lewis, Shetland, Wallander, Vera, and Brokenwood Mysteries. And a few others. It was just too dark for some reason. Maybe I watched it in too close proximity to Wallander, which is the most dismal show I’ve ever seen.
aye; I don’t think I lasted 6 weeks even
I concur. I stopped watching The Amazing Race for the same reason. I thought, “This isn’t really a competition.” The worst was a season where a team did nothing on their own but always followed what other people were doing and getting hints from other teams. Their strategy was “don’t be last” but they never did anything to earn not being last. Quite literally the only puzzle they did on their own was the last one to win the whole thing. Haven’t watched an episode since.
I used to watch Hell’s Kitchen and noticed that the competitions between the two teams always ended in being neck-and-neck until the final two dishes were judged. So clearly things were being manipulated to make good television.
The only reason they bring in relatives and friends in cop or hospital shows is to kill them off.
I tried watching the first ep of Snowpiercer. The trailers looked pretty cool, so I decided to give it a shot. The first scene was a gathering of clan leaders or something, and it just looked so fucking phony. I gathered these were supposed to be the downtrodden tribes who had been fighting for survival, but none of the actors could sell it. They all looked too well dressed and spoke English too eloquently to pull off being rogue gang leaders.
So I guess it took about 5 minutes to totally have my expectations dashed.
Hunters on Amazon Prime.
I was all on for the show, and really liked what I saw, until I realised there would be a made up Nazi crime of the week, every week and stopped watching a bit through the second episode.
I didn’t need them to dream up atrocities to make the horrible killing of Nazis palatable, it just made the show feel like it was taking the piss.
Tell me a Nazi ran a death camp, or hunted escaped prisoners, I’m fine with it. Tell me a Nazi ran radio contests or chess matches to decide who died and I’ll respect the dead by not watching further.