This is going to sound crazy but I decided to stop watching Sleepy Hollow because it was renewed. I liked the show but didn’t love it and when I read the news of its renewal I asked myself, “Will I want to watch this show for the next five years?” The answer was “No” so I decided to bail now.
I know that is kind of weird. Has anyone else done that or stopped for some other weird reason?
BSG: I was at a party and somebody revealed who one of the hidden Cylons was. I was already growing lukewarm on the show and that sealed it for me. Never watched another episode.
I give up on shows very quickly. Because of a good review I read I watched the first episode of Sleepy Hollow a few days ago and quite liked it. I started watching the second episode and in the first few minutes Abbie Mills and Frank Irving act as though Crane is a deluded crazy again, despite the events of the first episode. I switched it off and won’t bother watching it again.
I can’t be sure that “weird” works in this case but my memory fails to bring back anything more spontaneous than Grey’s Anatomy which I jettisoned several seasons ago. It was the goddamned music!
And I’m pretty sure my displeasure with how the first season of The Killing caused me to abandon any hopes for its second (and third) season, is well known from threads on that show.
The way the networks handle new shows these days, the past few years anyway, has made me very gunshy about even starting new ones. We have a couple episodes each of The Blacklist and The Michael J Fox Show in our DVR queue and it’s getting harder to work up the nerve to watch them.
Why do they bring out shows that they know they’ll most likely cancel after two or three episodes? Anyway, I’m tired of being a guinea pig!
I used to watch The Wonder Years for the first couple of seasons, but then they switched it to the same time slot as Unsolved Mysteries. I immediately started to hate The Wonder Years, as if its producers had anything at all to do with the new time slot. Then a couple years later, Beverly Hills 90210 also switched to the same time slot as Unsolved Mysteries, and I started to hate 90210.
When I learned of the “Story a Season” plan for American Horror Story with new characters, etc I got out. I figured it wasn’t a show I could come in and out of since they’d have to move fairly fast to get everything done each season and I wasn’t interested enough to make it required weekly viewing.
I wanted to watch Homeland and for some reason I missed the first episode. I’m sure I could have caught it later in the week or even later that night (I do have a TiVo FFS) or online, but didn’t bother and decided not to even bother with the entire show.
“The owls are not what they seem” was the end of my time spent on Twin Peaks, but the reason wasn’t weird - it was just me losing patience with the determined weirdness of the show.
Some would call it a weird reason, some would consider it perfectly normal, but when a show adds a pregnancy, baby or other child to a previously childless environment, I’m gone. Unless the kid is seen to be a eaten by wolverines in the last act. The Annoying One almost turned me off Buffy, but Spike saved the day.
I always tell people they can stop watching the show when the murderer is revealed. A few months back I convinced a friend to watch the show and about two episodes after the reveal he came up to me and said “Did Cooper ever get with Audrey? I kinda stopped watching it” It does sort of run out of steam around the time whatshisface runs off to that other town and gets framed for murder and the major disappears (The owls are not what the seem).
It’s an amazing show, just so long as you see it through to the big reveal and you’ve seen the Black Lodge. Everyone should know what the Black Lodge is.
I quit watching Boardwalk Empire partially because I was getting a little bored with it and partially because one of the scenes in the opening credits set off a phobia I have. I just got tired of having to shut my eyes until I heard dialogue start.
I was starting to watch Lost; my wife was a fan, so I decided to check it out. Halfway thought an episode, I asked her, “Is anything going to resolve, or is it just a tease?” She said, “It’s a tease.” I stopped watching at that point.
I enjoyed the BBC series Being Human’s first season very much. I wouldn’t watch the second season because I liked the characters too much, and figured that the writers would only make their lives hell. From what I’ve read, I was right.
There was nothing hidden about Vampires=Gays in that show. Right in the opening sequence is a big God Hates Fangs sign. The Vampire Rights Movement being very similar to the Gay Rights movement has been pretty clear since season 1.
ETA, I thought you said “Season 2” not “Episode 2” and I was wondering why it took you over a full season to catch on to that…sorry.
I really liked the first season of Homeland, however in a think the first episode of the 2nd series they travel to a house by a sea which is captioned as “Nicosia, Cyprus”. The thing is whilst Nicosia looks close to the sea on a small map, no-one with an inkling of the geography of Cyprus would describe anywhere by the sea as “Nicosia”. After that it made me realise how lazy the show was I didn’t watch it again.
I don’t know if it’s weird per se, but I quit watching “The Walking Dead” about the point when Rick & co had their first run-in with the Governor.
Reason: The walkers had quit being a threat for the most part, with Rick & co at the prison, and the Governor’s crew in fortified Woodbury, and the show became a huge post-apocalyptic soap opera- kind of like in season 2 with the farm and no real walker threat.
I damn near quit BSG for the same reason- after they finally shook the persistent Cylon threat in S1, it became a political soap opera, and I wanted to gag.
In general, if I start thinking “Bring back the heroes fighting the implacable threat against long odds. Screw that garbage where they bicker amongst themselves about petty and stupid stuff.” then I’m probably on the verge of quitting a show.