Shows you've had a falling out with - IE, they just suck now

[Tor Lugosi]

Revenge - probably would've been a perfect one-season show. But instead it just kept going. I don't think I even finished the second season.

Arrow, Flash, & LoT - each was good for the first two or so seasons but then eventually became shit.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent - the first five seasons are probably some of the best American police procedural stuff out there and the quality of each episode is really consistent. That consistency was because showrunner and main writer Rene Balcer either wrote or co-wrote every single episode. He then left after season five (and a few actors along with him) and the quality of the show immediately nosedived.

Archer - I like the show up through Vice, though even by then the slip in quality was evident. After season five, though, is when I lost interest.

 

[No. 7 cat]

The ancient Simpsons often took old often clichéd stories, but told them so well. Now for years, it's packed with quickfire lameness.

 

[XYZpdq]

Not a thing where the show changed but for whatever reason I don't enjoy watching old Good Eats anymore.
I hadn't seen them in probably ten years or so, tried some again recently but it just doesn't click with me like it used to. Dunno why.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

AMC decided it was a good idea to respond to a zombie show's runaway success by not actually having zombies any more and just having it be people sitting around talking on some shitty farm for a year. Darabont didn't agree. Also they wanted to cheat him out of his share of the profits. There's been a huge lawsuit going on for years since that was supposed to go to trial this May, finally. That probably is going to be delayed again.

That's also what fucked up Andrea's storyline thus turning her into a chickified loser

 

[Kulee Baba]

The ancient Simpsons often took old often clichéd stories, but told them so well. Now for decades, it's packed with quickfire lameness.

Sorry, I had to fix that for you.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Obligatory The Simpsons. Used to be a big fan. Started watching it around season 2. Kept with it until around season 16 when I started to lose interest. Saw the movie, a handful of newer episodes and it's just completely neutered from what it used to be.

I was a big X-Files fan. Got excited when I saw they were bringing it back, watched a bit of season 10 and left just feeling "meh" Not even that much into the original series anymore. Maybe it's just something teenage me loved and needs to stay in the past. I just find it too cheesy these days to really sit down and watch.

 

[Beautiful Loser]

Does it technically count if it's a book that leads to the disinterest of the show? If so: Korra. Good lord above Korra. I consoomed the shit out of the show while it was still airing, until it went "WE PACIFIC RIM NOW" and the lesb-splosion at the end of season 4. Whatever, I could still bear to tune in to reruns if nothing else was on.
Then everything changed when the Turf War nation attacked, and all the gum and duct tape holding the series together just fell apart. E;R summed it up best for me.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

Does it technically count if it's a book that leads to the disinterest of the show? If so: Korra. Good lord above Korra. I consoomed the shit out of the show while it was still airing, until it went "WE PACIFIC RIM NOW" and the lesb-splosion at the end of season 4. Whatever, I could still bear to tune in to reruns if nothing else was on.
Then everything changed when the Turf War nation attacked, and all the gum and duct tape holding the series together just fell apart. Cow aside, E;R summed it up best for me.

100% feels for you there. I went in after TLA to Korra, actually liking it more (before Book 2 broke me). And Korra was a much preferred protagonist over Aang.

....Yeah, now, with all the supplementary material, Korra is hands down one of the worst characters ever conceived.
With nostalgia blinders off, I could see just how atrocious Book 1 actually was too. Literally, the only reason I even still own the series is because of Book 3. I love that season and Zaheer. Book 4 was fine too, but.... man.
Talk about anally-raping a series.

And now that I know where the creators' heads are really at, I have zero interest in any of their future works.

 

[Niggernerd]

TWD. Dropped it during the prison season. I started getting more infuriated by ricks existence and their was less zombies and more boring drama
Then you had the last Niggerai shaniqua which was just a WHY

The office. Idk normies say it's totes hilarious but it's average yucks for me when i think back to it.

South Park. I used to love the shit out of it but the pee amusement park episode just turned me off completely. It was funny until the part it does a close up of a little girl in the pool and tinkling of pee comes out. Its just a unnecessary exceptional thing to add. After i went back to watch it they were making their lolbertarian orangemanbad episodes so i just dropped it entirely.

Scrubs. One episode was funny but fuck me it gets boring and cringy quick.

 

[Pitere pit]

Game of Thrones, obviously. I remember when I was a teen watching it religiously, my family and best friend got hooked by me, we watched the episodes, discussing theories, who is going to get the throne... and the trashfire known as seasons 5-8 happened, how innocent we were when we watched the last episode of season 7, just 45 minutes of walking but we thought that at the end we could get a decent finale, how naive we were. Past year I was watching season 8 with my ma and sis, nobody couldn't stand the massive shitfest that was. We couldn't believe it. All these theories, the discussions were for nothing, and a year later we don't want to binge on it during quarantine. Mind you that we are fans of lost too, despite the drop of quality they had is not comparable to what Got got, we still watch it.

Obligatory the simpsons, it was a part of my childhood. It started well but as time went on the quality went down and at some point you can't even say that you are watching the same show.
These two shows are like watching a beloved friend of yours, he is smart, gets always his shit together, and then you see that they are in the shitter and you can't feel anything but pity.

 

[frozenrunner]

Fucking hell. I’ve been putting off starting the new season because I’m worried it’s just going to be shit and your post has amplified those worries ten fold. Ugh.

I happen not to fully agree with the backlash on the show.

Westworld always held over the audience the nature of the world outside the park. Season three (aside from some minor plotholes) has some really interesting revelations about any sci-fi world that must exist to contain a technological marvel like Delos's park, and it extrapolates that world based on current (frightening) trends in big tech/big data. It feels like a good call, creatively. I can see why people in that world would want to vacation in Westworld.

Like I posted earlier, I thought season two was a step down from season one, but so far I've been pretty happy with the third season. Nothing is going to beat the first season, and I miss the world of the park, but they find occasional reasons to go back there.

The Walking Dead after they killed off Glenn and Abraham. I was already fairly fed up after the massive cliffhanger that was an obvious bid to have more viewers for the next season’s premiere, but dragging out the “suspense” of who was going to die for nearly a god damn hour just did it for me. Still wish they would let that god damn show die.

I forgot to mention TWD because it's been dead to me since they killed off Carl in order to avoid paying his actor scale upon reaching 18.

And then they killed Rick, and I realized I would never check out the show later to see what had happened to it. 100% dead to me and a huge waste of everyone's time.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Bob's Burgers was never a cartoon I'd call fantastic, it was far more shallow than its most obvious influence King of the Hill. But it had an amusing family dynamic, it's nice to have a family sitcom where the family acts like they love each other. Bob and Louise's episodes were especially good and a couple times struck an emotional chord on me. But now the show is just trash.

Every damn episode now has to have a musical number, they don't even attempt to make good songs anymore, they just feel if they have the VA's singing in their silly cartoon voices it's comic gold. If I never have to hear H Jon Benjamin sing a song I will be very happy. The shows plotlines used to be common relatable plotlines like having to deal with your shitty inlaws or fighting with a school bully. From what I've seen most episode plots now are insanely wacky misadventures you can hardly relate to. I don't know if I've just grown tired of the character banter but it doesn't feel as amusing as it did when the show first started.

It's not really that, there's more problems as well.

• Every episode focuses on the fucking kids now with Bob left to the B-plot. No more is kino like Burgerboss and Bob Day Afternoon existent.
• Almost every episode starts out the same (at that fucking dinner table) and then ends with a shitty song now.
• The show lost its edge back in season 3/4, Even Loren Bouchard admits that the show got fucking neutered on his Twitter.
• Every new character introduced is the same awkward person except they're just awkward in whatever field they are in.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

The earliest example for me came when I was a kid. I turned on GI Joe after Cobra Commander lost his spot as head of Cobra and they brought in Serpentor. I HATED Serpentor. He looked like a reject from another show like He-Man, not something that belonged in the world of fantasy military stories. Yeah, CC was a loser, but he was my loser! I loved him. It was like Daffy Duck was put in charge of a world military, and his design (well both of them) were great.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I'm sure The Simpsons and Walking Dead have been mentioned adnauseam. But true for me. I'm getting to that point with Stranger Things but supposedly the next season is the last one so we'll see.

 

[frozenrunner]

I'm sure The Simpsons and Walking Dead have been mentioned adnauseam. But true for me. I'm getting to that point with Stranger Things but supposedly the next season is the last one so we'll see.

Season two bored me to tears. RLM was right: they only had one idea, and they just repeated it for the second season.

I started the third season, and I have to say the Duffer Brothers know their show's "brand" at this point. It's absolutely fine and well-made. But I only watched the first episode and stopped. I guess because it's just going to be the same thing again.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Season two bored me to tears. RLM was right: they only had one idea, add they just repeated it for the second season.

I started the third season, and I have to say the Duffer Brothers know their show's "brand" at this point. It's absolutely fine. But I only watched the first episode and stopped because it's just going to be the same thing again.

The product placement in season 3 was incredibly obnoxious. It was okay. It was fine. But if there's one more season I may as well see it through, at least let it play as background noise.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I stopped watching Rick and Morty after season three kept sucking it’s own dick.

I managed to stick with it until Season Four, when I realized that the creators were just doing the same thing they were always doing with Rick, but were now going to turn Morty into an amoral monster. Morty is supposed to be the voice of reason, the young innocent, the audience viewpoint character. When Morty got angry with, mutilated or killed someone, it was supposed to be a serious event that represented a huge breakdown in Morty's psyche; something that would fill him with regret. But now suddenly, Morty's casually committing atrocities and it's either justified or no big deal. It went from a series about a Villain Protagonist and their Morality Chain, to a series about two Villain Protagonists. I just don't care about what happens to the characters anymore, because now the universe would be a better/safer place if both of those main characters were dead.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

I managed to stick with it until Season Four, when I realized that the creators were just doing the same thing they were always doing with Rick, but were now going to turn Morty into an amoral monster. Morty is supposed to be the voice of reason, the young innocent, the audience viewpoint character. When Morty got angry with, mutilated or killed someone, it was supposed to be a serious event that represented a huge breakdown in Morty's psyche; something that would fill him with regret. But now suddenly, Morty's casually committing atrocities and it's either justified or no big deal. It went from a series about a Villain Protagonist and their Morality Chain, to a series about two Villain Protagonists. I just don't care about what happens to the characters anymore, because now the universe would be a better/safer place if both of those main characters were dead.

I agree with you partially. I think the writers got the wrong idea of what direction to go with the characters, but I did find Morty’s decent into ‘evil’ to be interesting. Framed in the way of having Rick basically be the only real role model left for the kids and how he shouldn’t be that was probably one of the few things I actually enjoyed from the season 3 storyline.

 

[The Nothingness]

I think I speak for everyone in saying the 13th season of It's Always Sunny is when they jumped the shark, especially with the season finale. I can't even recall if I saw any episodes from last season.

 

[Notgoodwithusernames]

The earliest example for me came when I was a kid. I turned on GI Joe after Cobra Commander lost his spot as head of Cobra and they brought in Serpentor. I HATED Serpentor. He looked like a reject from another show like He-Man, not something that belonged in the world of fantasy military stories. Yeah, CC was a loser, but he was my loser! I loved him. It was like Daffy Duck was put in charge of a world military, and his design (well both of them) were great.

If we’re going into cartoon sperging then I’d like to point out the TMNT 2K3 series. I grew up with this series and is my favorite incarnation of the franchise (in fact outside of a few episodes of the 87 cartoon the non micheal bay movies, its The only incarnation that I’m really familiar with. Anyways despite 4kids being involved they were relatively light on the censors (at least compared to the rest of their lineup) the only times they had to step in was that one body horror episode and a scrapped season 5 episode that dealt with some pretty fucked up shit. That is until after season four. Season 4 ended on a cliffhanger which left me 9 year old me re excited for what was going to come next. However as I said I was 9 so I really didn’t’ have a grasp about how tv executives are among the most exceptional people on planet earth. You see 4kids was planning for a retool of the series. A bit of a red flag there but at least there’s a traceable line of Logic. The other thing they decided to do however was sheer lunacy. Season 5 (the last one before the retool) was skipped over entirely to get to the retool. I remember getting up on Saturday morning turning on the tv to watch that weeks episode.

https://youtu.be/dOiE0LCu6J0

How does it feel to live long enough to see all your favorite franchises go down in flames?

origin: Star Trek Discovery Season 1 - re:View https://youtu.be/ri7v-utIcvY

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I hated it I really did. But I kept watching hoping it would get better. It didn’t. The only saving grace was that 4kids eventually aired season five as “the lost episodes”. Providing a brief but satisfying reprieve. After the lost episodes ended I cut ties with the show and never looked back.