TV Shows You Wish You Had Quit

[weegeebored]

Originally Posted by Jas_lov

Halt and Catch Fire should have ended after Season 3.

Season 1...

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

The blonde?

I didn't see the last season or two but I thought Chuck was fun. And yeah, Yvonne Strahovski or whatever, I'd watch paint dry for an hour a week if she kept walking by.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by AENeuman

As an aside, Breaking Bad is the only show I can think of where the lst two seasons were as good or better than the first

That's the advantage of slowly building towards an actual finale, versus just milking the life out of something until cancellation.

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by AENeuman

As an aside, Breaking Bad is the only show I can think of where the lst two seasons were as good or better than the first

Seinfeld, Parks & Rec, Cheers.

[CrescentMoonie]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

That's the advantage of slowly building towards an actual finale, versus just milking the life out of something until cancellation.

That's part of why I liked Battlestar Galactica so much. The writer had a 5 season show planned out and got to do it.

[BYU 14]

I will throw The Following in here. It started with a pretty solid concept and just degenerated into a psycho-du jour clusterfuck.

[Radii]

How I Met Your Mother was so immensely good early, and so dreadfully shitty late, its the perfect show for this topic.

Westworld seems a little harsh on a list like this after one season. I do think it is highly overrated. I like it, but, its really just alright IMO. Everyone who cared about figuring out the twists did so very early on. Its an ok show with an interesting premise and some very good actors involved. That's more than enough to keep me happily watching. I would just not use the word great to describe anything that happened in season 1.


I'm extremely glad that I quit Walking Dead, should have quit during the Governor arc.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by BYU 14

I actually like the last season, though the ending was somewhat predictable. Season 3 was horrid and we thought about quitting, but actually glad I went back.

Overall, I enjoyed The Strain. It did kinda drag on but, unlike Lost, I wanted to see how it would end.

[Johnny93g]

I wish i quit Dexter. After season 4, every season was the same, and relatively uninteresting. They wasted the Deb finding out storyline.

I wish i quit Sons of Anarchy. How many times can Jax tell a minor character, "hey trust me", then shoot them when their use was up. Apparently MANY MANY TIMES.

I successfully quit The Walking Dead. Can't think of a show with worse writing.

I successfully quit Suits. The formulaic plot of having a unsolvable legal problem solved by a rare loophole took too much away of what were some interesting plotlines.

I successfully quit Bloodlines. I really liked season 1, but to me, season 2 was so boring, it was putting me to sleep.

I think im learning to quit!!!

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by weegeebored

Season 1...

AKA, the worst season of HACF?

[stevew]

The final straw for SOA should have been the School shooting episode but then they did basically 25 things worse than that.

[PilotMan]

Californication

Fantastic first couple of seasons before it started dropping off. Of course, nubile co-eds always helped further the plot line, but by about season 3 or 4 I didn't care at all what happened to any of the characters and actively cheered for bad things to befall them. I can't believe I held on until the end. My god it was bad.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

Californication

Fantastic first couple of seasons before it started dropping off. Of course, nubile co-eds always helped further the plot line, but by about season 3 or 4 I didn't care at all what happened to any of the characters and actively cheered for bad things to befall them. I can't believe I held on until the end. My god it was bad.

Even at its worst that show featured some of the greatest nudity of any primetime sitcom. The later seasons were bad but generally at least had a few good episodes a season. I don't regret watching all of it but I also burned through it on demand or on Netflix I can't remember. If I had gone week-to-week on that show, I would probably agree with you more.

[QuikSand]

House of Cards?

[larrymcg421]

I quit House of Cards early in the 2nd season after one of the most ridiculous death scenes in TV history.

[QuikSand]

It remained very watchable for a while after that, but definitely did descend badly. I staggered through season 4, and have only watched two episodes of season 5.

[tarcone]

Season 5 was terrible. I will watch season 6 and hope for the best.

[tarcone]

Originally Posted by stevew

Even at its worst that show featured some of the greatest nudity of any primetime sitcom. The later seasons were bad but generally at least had a few good episodes a season. I don't regret watching all of it but I also burned through it on demand or on Netflix I can't remember. If I had gone week-to-week on that show, I would probably agree with you more.

My dream life. that is all I can say.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by tarcone

My dream life. that is all I can say.

There is truth in this statement.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Season 5 was terrible. I will watch season 6 and hope for the best.

No you won't.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by larrymcg421

I quit House of Cards early in the 2nd season after one of the most ridiculous death scenes in TV history.

I quit after the first episode of season 4. I fired up the first episode of that season, realized I had zero interest in it, and never watched another episode.

[BishopMVP]

Originally Posted by Critch

Chuck. Not sure why I watched it in the first place, it was fairly crap the whole run.

Came for Yvonne Strahovski, stayed for Adam Baldwin, but I also thought it was pretty funny the first season or so. Not sure if it was Chuck gaining superpowers or actually starting a relationship with the girl that was where it really fell off, but they happened about the same time iirc.

[ISiddiqui]

House of Cards was a Season 5 premier ender for me. It may sound silly to say, but in the age of Trump, a President trying to blatantly manipulate and lie his way into continued power didn't seem 'fun' anymore.

[RainMaker]

House of Cards is really bad but I still watch it for some reason.

[stevew]

I quit after the entire season that was all about Indian casino gambling and shit like that. couldn't take another episode

[molson]

I thought the Republican party candidate for president breathed some fresh air into HOC for a while, but then after he left - I honestly don't remember what happened the last 6 or 7 episodes and I just finished them a few weeks ago. I don't know what that show's obsession is with monotone acting performances but good lord - between that adviser guy and that loser author who was always hanging around, it was tough to stay awake and focused on what was going on.

[Abe Sargent]

For me it was Friends. The last few seasons, where the characters have lost their relate ability and become characitures of themselves was not good. I really watched moer out of loyalty and inertia.

[jeff061]

Where were all you "House of Cards is really bad" types when I recently blew through 2 seasons and was baffled how everyone was hyping this ridiculous thing?

[Logan]

Originally Posted by jeff061

Where were all you "House of Cards is really bad" types when I recently blew through 2 seasons and was baffled how everyone was hyping this ridiculous thing?

You have to remember, House of Cards was really the first major Netflix binge watch show. You had an interesting premise, a big name actor involved, and the right storyline of "what happens next?" paired with this new method of watching where EVERYTHING was released at once and you could stay up until 4am or watch the whole thing over an entire weekend. That surely had a huge impact on not only getting so many people to watch, but everyone's enjoyment of it. It was really satisfying to be able to just keep on watching and find out the next piece of the story.

I definitely enjoyed the experience of watching it, and the thriller aspect of it, much more than I did the quality of the writing, acting, etc. I think if Season 1 debuted today, with so many more shows coming before it, it doesn't get anywhere near the same type of hype.

[PilotMan]

House of Cards died for me when Kate Mara did. I recently tried it again, but I think it's truly dead now.

[larrymcg421]

I think the best way to put it, as I think Sepinwall once explained, is that House of Cards is a trashy show that thinks it's a prestige show. Scandal is good because it knows what it is. House of Cards isn't because it thinks it's The West Wing.

[Toddzilla]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

The blonde?

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by jeff061

Where were all you "House of Cards is really bad" types when I recently blew through 2 seasons and was baffled how everyone was hyping this ridiculous thing?

I've been wondering that too. It's like the publicity of Kevin Spacey's misdeeds have suddenly snapped everyone out of a bad dream or something.

[weegeebored]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

AKA, the worst season of HACF?

Not sure what you were watching. Steady decline in storyline, writing, and character development in each subsequent season after 1. S2 was still pretty good; however this last season was some of the worst writing I have ever seen. Sure, there probably have been shows in tv history with worse writing, but I would have not bothered to watch multiple episodes of those, let alone multiple seasons of scripted crap. I could barely get through the last couple of seasons and now I wish I had that time back.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

For me it was Friends. The last few seasons, where the characters have lost their relate ability and become characitures of themselves was not good. I really watched moer out of loyalty and inertia.

maybe it was the opposite. I think all of them were cartoons in their own way from the beginning. And that they lost whatever charm each of them had...that and their playbooks got old and they didn't find good ways to reinvent themselves. I think the only real nshakeup to the writing came with Joey and Rachel living together while the whole Chandler/monica as married thing...really didn't excite.