After being a never miss watcher I bailed on ER because it was just too depressing. Its an Emergency Room so I expect all kinds of misery coming through the door. But can some of the cast catch a break please? If any work place had that much depression, tragedy and misery there would be a mass workplace suicide. I can’t remember exactly when I stopped watching I just kinda did. I guess its not that weird.
I quit watching LOST after about the 4th or 5th episode. I found it to be a major disappointment. SWMBO doted on it and watched it religiously, so I heard second-hand about what all happened.
Any show that is so out in left field that they have to have a special re-run of the last episode with spoilers so you can keep up with the plot just doesn’t do it for me.
I’m starting to feel this way about Castle. Last week’s episode was so over-the-top that it made me think that the writers are really stretching for plotlines ever since Castle proposed and Beckett took the new job.
I used to be a hard core 24 watcher. My then-wife and I had a habit of DVRing several episodes and then watching a few weeks later so that, if we needed a fix, we could watch two or three episodes at a time.
One week, halfway through Season 7, we sat down and discovered that several weeks of the show that we’d yet to watch had been inadvertently overwritten. It was a complete buzzkill, and many years later, I’ve never managed to motivate myself to go back and watch what I missed.
I’m hoping that the rumors of a movie/miniseries will force me to go and finish the last year and a half (two and a half years?) that I’ve missed out on.
I don’t know if this qualifies as a “weird” reason, but for a long time after the birth of my (now 9 year old) son, I pretty much stopped watching any and all continuing series.
He has major ADHD and used to need my presence and my attention constanly. Hence, for years I just COULDN’T watch any shows with a continuing story line. I just COULDN’T tune in every week to see what was happening on*** Lost or Breaking Bad. *** Whenever we FINALLY got my son to sleep, I just watched whatever 1 hour show happened to be on. It HAD to be something that would be finished and resolved at the end of the episode.
I never LOVED ***Law & Order ***or any of its spinoffs, I never loved NCIS, but at least I knew I wasn’t going to be left with a cliffhanger that I wasn’t sure I’d be able to make time to see.
The main reason I stopped watching “New Girl” was because it wasn’t funny to me. The weird reason is that I got tired of scenes set in the bathroom so they could show the male characters without their shirts on. I would have had no problem with scenes set in the bathroom so they could show the female characters without their shirts on.
When they dropped the helicopter on Romano, I was out.
If it’s “fear of Steve Buscemi’s teeth,” know that it’s a very common affliction.
So? 
Doesn’t matter if it’s the third episode or the 103rd. I hate babies/kids.
I bailed a few episodes before the helicopter…it had turned into such a terribly depressing show with no redeeming qualities (there was nothing worth discussing with friends or co-workers the next day).
I quit watching The Shield for a similar reason after Lem was killed…I wasn’t expecting anyone on that show to have a happy ending, but that one episode made it crystal clear that the writers intended to make everyone absolutely miserable.
I used to really love CBS’s Sunday Morning. Sort of a substitute for church–aimed at Liberals, with arts, science & other stuff just up my alley.
After the debacle of the 2000 election, The Guy Who Succeeded Charles Kuralt gave a shamefaced little speech. Hey, he *really *wished he could say something about the upcoming Inaugural–but it would be in poor taste. (Besides, he needed his job.) Then one of the female reporters interviewed Mrs Clarence Thomas. Who had been working for the Heritage Society, vetting possible appointees for the Bush Administration. Was a word said about a possible conflict of interest, relating to her hubbie’s decision? Nope. She did hope that DC would now be more polite & refined, without that tasteless partisan bickering. When the most famous conflicts coming out of DC had been the Republican-fueled Impeachment Debacle. Her interviewer agreed & said that people Outside The Beltway just didn’t understand what Insiders did…
Haven’t watched the show since.
As far as I can recall, the opening credits only shows SB standing in the waves while bottles wash ashore, so it could be. Or, maybe MsWhatsit is referring to the upcoming trailer which shows someone about to shoot heroin (?) If that’s the case, you don’t see very much of that after that one scene.
I stopped watching ER (I can’t even begin to remember what season or when it was on or even what it was about) when they showed some kid throw up all over, uh, one of the doctors(?) I’m pretty desensitized to vomit scenes now but back then that was an absolute deal breaker. There are still some episodes of Madmen that I’ll never watch again.
Ditto what Silenus said about shows introducing baby / kid story lines (I’m looking at you, How I Met Your Mother).
I would be in the other room and hear her groaning as she watched. 
Well, since people are now guessing, I’ll just tell you that it was actually the scene of the bottles washing up on shore. There was one shot in it that set off my trypophobia, which you can google if you want. (I found out on Reddit not too long ago that apparently some people think this is a made-up phobia, but I assure you it is not.) I know it’s weird, but that scene just kind of… bugged me.
I stopped watching Grey’s Anatamy because Grey didn’t drown.
This is stupid because the show is named after her so, of course they’re not going to kill her off in the second (or was that the third?) season. But when they fished her out ten seconds into the first show of the next season and she wasn’t even waterlogged, much less dead, I gave up.
Not weird at all. I stopped watching when they gave Dr. Greene cancer. I didn’t wait for them to kill him off. Too much beating up on characters for my liking.
I rarely ever stop watching a show. There’s only been a few - Heroes, because it’s just a shitty show and Shameless (UK) because it turned in to a shitty show. Even Dexter, Weeds and Entourage turned in to shitty shows (IMHO) but I kept on with them because I am a completist.
But the one show that wasn’t shitty that I finally stopped watching was the UK version of Skins, because one of the characters reminded me of someone I know - he both looked like my friend and stuff in the character’s life was much like my friend’s life - and it literally made me cry to see bad stuff happen to this kid. I didn’t watch the finale of the second season, for fear that something awful would happen to my boy. And never watched the show again even though he wasn’t even on the show anymore.
I know, really weird because it’s a show about teenagers in England and I’m an old lady in Ohio but I was in to the show. I just had to stop.
Not to belabor the point or hijack the thread but I’m kind of intrigued. I’ve seen the opening credits dozens of times and I have a slight case of trypophobia myself (yes it is absolutely a real thing, though it no doubt varies in degrees of severity). Is it the holes in Nucky’s nifty shoes or the water bubbles? If the latter, are you unable to watch any shows that have shots of waves breaking and / or unable to go to the beach yourself?
On that note, to get back on topic, I cannot watch the opening credits to Mike & Molly (is it still on?) because something about the sight of the waves, small though they are, of Lake Michigan rolling in makes me really uncomfortable. Still watch(ed) the show itself though.
For the past few years, I have refused to even start watching new shows on FOX because of their previously terrible record of cancelling shows early. This is all because the last time I was really excited about a show, it was Vanished, and they cancelled that about 6 episodes in and we never got to see about any payoff at all. I was so pissed that I never got to see what they had planned I boycotted their shows for years. So sorry to Terra Nova, New Girl, Raising Hope, Fringe, Glee, Drive, Human Target, Lie to Me, and The Mob Doctor, the reason why I never bothered to follow you was because of Vanished
Helicopter number 1, or helicopter number 2?