Shows that you stopped watching - Shit that you quit

[Pale Empress]

Supernatural

Came here to post this. I dropped it sometime around s07 or s08, mostly because it wrapped up nicely at the end of the sixth season, but also because of the tonal whiplash and quality drop-off after Kripke left and Kim Manners passed away.

The first few seasons had neat atmosphere and I wish they'd retained that instead of pivoting into retarded fanservicing for the tumblr crowd. I suspect Sera Gamble's increased influence on the show was a root cause for the radical shift in tone.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I think I’m done with The Righteous Gemstones. I like the Danny McBride comedies but it’s clear that he’s run out of ideas. There’s a reason why his shows don’t last long but it sounds like this show is intending to be run for several more seasons? Fuck that.

You gave up so hard that you decided the other seasons don't even count

True Detectits season 1 is a classic. Season 2 was trash and season 3 was boring because it was at the point where they had to have niggers be in leading roles but they were still occasionally allowed to have some flaws that wasn’t just overreacting to muh racism. What a waste of an opportunity that show was.

 

[del_toid]

If the Mars/Belt conflict is what you liked about it you'd LOVE the last half of season 2 and first half of season 3, but you're going to have to suffer through a lot of poor rich girl angst to get there.

The expanse gets better but goes off the rails later. I like the show but couldn't watch through it again knowing the last season, some serious behind the scenes problems clearly show themselves. They did not know where to go with things.

Post Eros, pre New Terra is prime political sci-fi (with mediocre acting and cgi).

Basically everything except the proto molecule plot is good.

the books have the same problem, its probably good that the show ends here instead of following the dogshit plot in the books post New Terra

 

[Spit bucket]

I stopped watching The Boys halfway through season 2. I think the last thing I saw was Stormfront going on a murder spree in a apartment complex while chasing someone. I loved season 1.

 

[I__quit]

Shameless stopped being entertaining to me around season six. I think that's when I gave up. The characters get progressively less likeable and the antics more depressing. Watching a show where you're rooting for no one (not even younger characters) isn't appealing for too long. Besides, if I forget white trash exists I can my fix here; uncut, unscripted and without a subscription.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

The Black List because by the end of season three/start of season four, it's clear they're making shit up as they go along and pretending there's this great, complex narrative.

Brooklyn 99 was losing me but season six made me quit. I have it readily available on Netflix and have seen a couple of episodes of season seven, but I just cannot bring myself to finish it.

The Witcher season one was meh but I had no interest in the second one after hearing how badly Geralt gets fucked over. Season three seems to be even worse.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I stopped watching The Boys halfway through season 2. I think the last thing I saw was Stormfront going on a murder spree in a apartment complex while chasing someone. I loved season 1.

I gave up somewhere in the middle of season 3. The anti-right-wing political sperging was just too on-the-nose for me.

Other shows: The Great. I admit, I stayed with it for two seasons despite the absolutely cloying portrayal of Catherine the Great as an oh-so-special visionary leader/Pollyanna. This was the Russian Royal Court. There was no way for her to play that innocent and cute for that long. And there was somehow a "diverse" Russian court? Also, there was one meta-joke in the second season about America and Russia being great friends for a long time, which was a mask-off moment for the writers. Why did I stick with it? Because Nicholas Hoult is a genius comic actor, that's why.

Only Murders in the Building. Admittedly, it's been a hard watch since season 2 where they tried to keep propping up Carla Delevigne, not to mention the season 2 finale...we get it, folks, you're actors doing an extended improv skit. Nobody likes improv, and if it's a scene scripted to appear as improv, good Christ, show, sink lower. Season 3 is where I only begrudgingly finished the season. They introduced a fucking musical, and I didn't even need to consult reddit to hear the unrelenting squeeing of the fandom over that absolute dogshit "Pickwick Triplets" song.

I also gave up on Mr. Robot in Season 4. The whole resolution of the Dark Army's grudge against Dom was an unsatisfying fizzle and it kind of took the momentum out of an already flagging season for me.

And we can talk about Once Upon a Time for about three hours...

 

[Maverick Vile]

Anime is degenerate slop but at least the nips have no concept of snarky humor the way we have it here.

Western media right now is incapable of sincerity. Everything has to have some quip or barb somewhere in the dialogue so the writer either protects their ego because "he knows the story has holes, guys! He pointed it out first!" or they're just irony poisoned losers who don't believe in anything. I blame this faggot and his radioactive writing advice below.

There is now an entire generation of Hollywood writers who worship this piece of advice and have stretched its meaning to include "kneecapping the fuck out of your somber moments." For all their weird shortcomings, the Japanese can at least carry a tone that isn't "sarcastic ass-clown" for more than 5 seconds.

Speaking of anime, I gave up on Demon Slayer after forcing myself to watch about 5 episodes. I don't know why the Zoomers won't shut the fuck up about it because it has no identity aside from better-than-average animation, and even then it focuses way too much on trying to wow you with effects work. Tanjiro is a goodie-two-shoes in a world where such niceties could easily cost you your life or the lives of others. While that would make for a compelling character arc, I learned from reviews of the material that it just never happens. It's a character trait the writer gave him so you'd really like Tanjiro and nothing more.

Gave up on My Hero Academia, too. After

Spoiler

All Might spends the last of his power to fight All for One

, there was just nothing keeping me invested. It felt like all the major character arcs were crawling, and I kept getting this weird boot-licking vibe from the show. Like, the kids would pull off something amazing and save the day, but the teachers would punish them because they weren't authorized to do something, and that was seen as the right thing to do. It rubbed me the wrong way and between all that and my general cape fatigue at this point, I just couldn't invest in it anymore.

 

[skykiii]

It would almost be easier for me to list stuff I didn't quit.

Not sure what the parameters are so I'm including a list of both live-action and animation.

* Fist of the North Star (its just so boring)
* Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (seen one shonen anime about people with powers fighting each other, seen 'em all)
* Ducktales 2017 (the characters are just all insufferable hipsters and it becomes grating).
* Doctor Who (modern one--around the episode "Let's Kill Hitler" it became clear to me the writers were clueless TV Tropes esque dipshits more about being clever than about actually writing quality stories).
* Law & Order (all forms once I realized the show was kinda retarded).

This topic is giving me that "blank paper" syndrome where you want to draw something but then confronted with how many sheer possibilities there are, your mind blanks.

 

[The Fair Lady]

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Just kinda lost interest, I'll rewatch older episodes though.