Total tangent. Did you ever have to deal with a database that somebody did a full import on and ended up with two rows in DUAL? Fun times.
The fastest I ever fell out of love with a show was Whose Line is it Anyway?. I loved the first episode, but the second was just more of the same. I was so disappointed that I never watched it again.
I liked the concept of Once Upon a Time and watched the first few episodes with enjoyment until they had the episode where the main character totally buys into the newspaper editor supplying her with information on the villain/antagonist and getting herself into hot water thereby, despite knowing that the newspaper editor was the villain’s toy to play with and despite the main character having been depicted as a smart and savvy bounty hunter in the first episode.
I decided I didn’t like plot-driven stupidity and dropped it.
The final book by Jordan (Knife of Dreams) is actually great. But the one before that (Crossroads of Twilight) is the pit of awfulness. I would skip 7-10, personally. Just read chapter summaries.
This exact same description applies to my contribution: “Hanna” on Amazon. Started out with this great premise and lots of angles on the story. Second season was a bit of a stretch - not an extension of the first, but took a weird direction. Third season made no sense at all.
I still enjoy “Killing Eve” mostly for the unpredictability. I agree that they have no clue where to go after the last season, though.
It seems like a lot of work is put in up front to “sell” an idea/concept of a series. But then after the 2nd season, the producers/writers are like “oops, we never thought we’d make it this far.” And so the writing just goes off the rails.
I got this same sense with “Lost”, only they had reasonably solid material for about 4 seasons. After that season they had the “we never figured we’d last this long” moment, and just threw in anything that came to mind - regardless of whether it made any sense with what had already transpired.
Hanna has only had two seasons. 
I almost gave up on “Lost” when it started venturing into woo-woo territory. But TV in the time of Covid is a flexible sport, and I’m so fucking bored with myself that I stuck with it. To my credit, I did fast forward some of the backstory stuff, which was even more boring than usual, and I refused to ever watch women giving birth again a long time ago. The screaming, the mess, the tears. Fucking stab me now.
I gave up on Schitt’s Creek three times. Tried watching it on Hulu, but it was so hammy, and the humor so heavy-handed and dated, that I quit after a few episodes. Tried again a few months later. Same result. Then someone said "Oh, but it gets really good if you wait until season 40, so the wife and I tried it together. No dice. It’s a stupid show with stupid dialog and annoying characters, AND IT AIN’T FUNNY!
We watched some early episodes of Lost, which were good, but we fell away for some reason. Then we waited until the series was over and asked our friends, “Is it worth it?”
All responses were some despondent variation of “Not really.”
So that pretty much sealed it.
Lost was fun to watch as it aired. We had many threads here speculating on what we were seeing. We had no idea how it would end and whether the ending would be worthwhile.
Agreed. I ditched after 3 episodes. The shrillness if nothing else. And the not funny thing of course.
Don’t hate me, fans, but Lovecraft Country started alienating me at episode 2, and I was fully hatewatching by the end of episode 5.* But I loved the pilot, and was really excited for the series since I liked the book a lot. Plus, Jordan Peele. Just a damn shame, in my opinion.
*I did like episode 6, the Korean episode, oh-kaaaay.
The summary for many of the chapters is, “Rand mounts a horse.” I did enjoy the series, but absolutely see how it would turn off lots of people.
My contribution is the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I really like the first season, made it through the second, and got an episode or two into the third and just stopped watching, because I couldn’t take it anymore.
What an excellent description of the TV show “Homeland”.
And what’s her name tugs on her braid. 
Same here but with SNL.
I stopped watching all of the DC shows after the first couple of episodes. They pretty much stopped using their powers so they could build the stories. Whatever happened to having a few ass kicking episodes while building story through cut scenes, short arcs and little mysteries that tie in later. You don’t even need to introduce a main bad guy until the last episodes of the entire first season.
Loved the premise of Voyager and I was prepared to stick it out as Star Trek seems to always have a weak first season. I’m glad I did, loved it until the end but definitely there’s some stinker episodes along the way.
Enterprise, was absolutely giddy at the premiere and enjoyed the first few episodes. It never really went anywhere until season 3 and then it went straight down. I eventually caught them all on DVD rentals but ugh, I’ll never watch Enterprise again
The premise of two groups with considerable mutual hostility having to work together as a crew to get home has a lot of potential. Trek ought to use that concept someday.
I absolutely loved the first two seasons of Vikings. Then in the third season they introduced Yidu, Ragnar’s drug dealer and the series started to go downhill fast. I stuck with it until Ragnar’s death because I really wanted to see how they handled that. That was the last episode I enjoyed. After that the show switched focus to Ragnar’s sons. I hate-watched it for a while, but I quit when I realized that I wasn’t even enjoying that because I hated Ivar so much.