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Drowning a guy in a bathtub full of piss was when I checked out of that show.
Shows you've had a falling out with - IE, they just suck now
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Drowning a guy in a bathtub full of piss was when I checked out of that show.
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that sounds like it should be metal as fuck in principle but turns out dumb in practice
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid
This will all end in tears, I just know it.
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South Park lost its luster before the political leanings came into play in later seasons just because it lost its comedic wit when it traded in the gross and edgy humor for Greek epics and goofy, randumb slapstick humor. The best example of this is Eric Cartman going from being some edgy fat kid to a pudgy Sauron. It's really hard to pinpoint what exactly caused the decline but what it ultimately boils down to is an analogy I just cooked up of a sharp pencil becoming dull after mileage.
As for other shows, I struggle to think of any since I have a decent radar for forecasting what's going to be pig shit and what won't, with rare exception.
The Simpsons comes to mind since that went down a death spiral after season 10 or so. Where early Simpsons episodes were actual stories with a point to be made, modern Simpsons are ten minute what-if vignettes that are largely of no consequence and hold no stakes whatsoever. Before that, the Simpsons were still full episodes with jokes that could get a laugh, they didn't have anything strong to say. It didn't help that the setup to jokes gradually got more and more tortured for weaker payoffs.
I never read the Game of Thrones books so the show didn't lose me until the final season where D&D couldn't even keep the continuity of events cobbled together anymore.
The Walking Dead after Rick Grimes left the show. The actor wanted to leave the show on the promise of making an eventual return so they had Rick helicopter-rescued out of the show, so now there's no one left in the show to follow anymore. The series had been building up to Rick passing the torch onto Carl and Carl's pointless, anti-climatic death was the penultimate nail in the coffin. And now Negan of all characters is one of the show's leads, which is just fucking stupid. A real person like Negan would've been dragged to the center of Alexandria to be publicly shamed and beaten by everyone he ever wronged before being executed. Keeping him alive to prove a moral point was just dumb.
Petty Dreadful is another one that turns to shit after season two, the things that mattered in season one were made irrelevant and nothing up until that point mattered and all aspects of it were inferior.
Netflix Dracula was great until the third episode, where the plot gives up on intrigue and it turns out, that despite being an immortal monster of the night that eats people and makes monsters from the corpses he eats, isn't even hurt by sunlight. In that instant, the one thing that kept him in check from global genocide should he whim it was made irrelevant, giving him carte blanche to commit whatever atrocity whenever and wherever he felt like without fear of retribution whatsoever. Then Dracula just chooses to die anyway because the script calls for it even despite the fact he has no reason to want for death and went into quite a considerable amount of effort into continue living as much as possible until that point. I have never seen such a quality show take such a hard nose dive at the last second like that.
As for other shows, I struggle to think of any since I have a decent radar for forecasting what's going to be pig shit and what won't, with rare exception.
The Simpsons comes to mind since that went down a death spiral after season 10 or so. Where early Simpsons episodes were actual stories with a point to be made, modern Simpsons are ten minute what-if vignettes that are largely of no consequence and hold no stakes whatsoever. Before that, the Simpsons were still full episodes with jokes that could get a laugh, they didn't have anything strong to say. It didn't help that the setup to jokes gradually got more and more tortured for weaker payoffs.
I never read the Game of Thrones books so the show didn't lose me until the final season where D&D couldn't even keep the continuity of events cobbled together anymore.
The Walking Dead after Rick Grimes left the show. The actor wanted to leave the show on the promise of making an eventual return so they had Rick helicopter-rescued out of the show, so now there's no one left in the show to follow anymore. The series had been building up to Rick passing the torch onto Carl and Carl's pointless, anti-climatic death was the penultimate nail in the coffin. And now Negan of all characters is one of the show's leads, which is just fucking stupid. A real person like Negan would've been dragged to the center of Alexandria to be publicly shamed and beaten by everyone he ever wronged before being executed. Keeping him alive to prove a moral point was just dumb.
This one I totally forgot about. Season 2 had lots of annoying hangups that I was close to giving up on it. You could do a lot with a character like Punisher, Hammerhead from Spiderman is also a Punisher villain if I recall correctly.
Petty Dreadful is another one that turns to shit after season two, the things that mattered in season one were made irrelevant and nothing up until that point mattered and all aspects of it were inferior.
Netflix Dracula was great until the third episode, where the plot gives up on intrigue and it turns out, that despite being an immortal monster of the night that eats people and makes monsters from the corpses he eats, isn't even hurt by sunlight. In that instant, the one thing that kept him in check from global genocide should he whim it was made irrelevant, giving him carte blanche to commit whatever atrocity whenever and wherever he felt like without fear of retribution whatsoever. Then Dracula just chooses to die anyway because the script calls for it even despite the fact he has no reason to want for death and went into quite a considerable amount of effort into continue living as much as possible until that point. I have never seen such a quality show take such a hard nose dive at the last second like that.
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Game of thrones after season 5..... Just fuck it. I sat through the rest out of spite.
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If online shows count, I would say The Sun Vanished ARG since the creator keeps breaking immersion to shill his own shit and even virtue signaled on the account for BLM, and is now getting angry at fans for giving him criticism and it's really annoying.
It didn't help it was taking too long.
It didn't help it was taking too long.
James Roancrest
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That's still going? I dropped off a while ago and only check up on it through YouTube update summaries.
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Yeah but it's garbage now with the creator having a bloated ego now.
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>Sees this
>"Can't be that bad..."
>Opens new tab, looks up tsv twatter
>First thing you see immersion breaking pin of himself
>o-oh...
>BLM Shilling with the arg account
It was... a thing... while that lasted.
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Clarence was my favourite thing on television for the first two seasons, every time a new episode aired it was the highlight of my week.
I literally could not bear to watch the third season and they didn’t even show most of it here because so little people were watching
I literally could not bear to watch the third season and they didn’t even show most of it here because so little people were watching
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Getting tard comed
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House of Cards - Season 6 doesnt exist to me, but even towards the end of season 4 and parts of 5 started to get to melodrama/soap opera levels. Still wish that show could have had a proper ending.
TWD- I stopped watching the season right before Neagon came in. The formula of Exciting season opener -> declining quality filler -> cliff hanger half season episode -> anti climatic return of season episode -> mostly filler episodes -> exciting season finale with cliffhanger got too predictable and a waste of time. Not entertaining.
Netflix's Dracula - Amazing first episode even though the actor playing Dracula wasn't particularly good. Second episode the cracks began to show and the ending completely jumped the shark and almost ruined my enjoyment of it. Third episode was a shit show that ruins Dracula and vampires in a way Trilight didn't even manage to do.
GOTs - I'm not sure any shownin the history of television has fallen as far and completely ruined its legacy as much as season 8 did for this show.
The Legend of Korra - Not sure how they managed to make a show this bad based on ATLA but they managed it somehow
The Boys - Season 1 was entertaining, Season 3 so far has been a mixture of poor writing and turning the ridiculousness of the gore and violence up to unrealistic levels for comedic effect that I dont find funny(the whale) and the last episode completely jumped the shark so quickly it almost gave me whiplash. I'm finishing this season but I'm pretty sure I'll be done with the show after it's done.
TWD- I stopped watching the season right before Neagon came in. The formula of Exciting season opener -> declining quality filler -> cliff hanger half season episode -> anti climatic return of season episode -> mostly filler episodes -> exciting season finale with cliffhanger got too predictable and a waste of time. Not entertaining.
Netflix's Dracula - Amazing first episode even though the actor playing Dracula wasn't particularly good. Second episode the cracks began to show and the ending completely jumped the shark and almost ruined my enjoyment of it. Third episode was a shit show that ruins Dracula and vampires in a way Trilight didn't even manage to do.
GOTs - I'm not sure any shownin the history of television has fallen as far and completely ruined its legacy as much as season 8 did for this show.
The Legend of Korra - Not sure how they managed to make a show this bad based on ATLA but they managed it somehow
The Boys - Season 1 was entertaining, Season 3 so far has been a mixture of poor writing and turning the ridiculousness of the gore and violence up to unrealistic levels for comedic effect that I dont find funny(the whale) and the last episode completely jumped the shark so quickly it almost gave me whiplash. I'm finishing this season but I'm pretty sure I'll be done with the show after it's done.
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Trailer Park Boys season 1-7 were classics but it dropped in quality at season 8 when it was picked up by Netflix after some years of being off-air, with the absence of original creator/showrunner Mike Clattenburg;
I finally gave up in season 10 when Barb came back and Tom Arnold & Snoop Dog appeared for some reason. I think they ended the original show and made an animated show, no idea if its good or not but fuck just end the TPB franchise already and make something new.
I finally gave up in season 10 when Barb came back and Tom Arnold & Snoop Dog appeared for some reason. I think they ended the original show and made an animated show, no idea if its good or not but fuck just end the TPB franchise already and make something new.
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Doctor Who's latest couple seasons were really hard to get through and eventually I just stopped trying. I watched like two episodes from S12 (Fugitive of the Judoon which was surprisingly decent and the finale which was terrible) but it left me with no enthusiasm for the future of the series. Well, at least until Jodie and Chibbs are gone anyway.
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Ozark.
Seasons one and two are good (not as good as what they're commonly compared to: Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul, but still entertaining and well done) but season three was awful. They bring in the wife's crazy brother, Ben, who just becomes the absolute worst walking plot device I've seen in some time. Ben being bipolar allows him to very conveniently screw up every single plan and relationship in the show. It was some of the laziest and weakest writing I've ever seen in a TV show.
The writing for that season is literally just:
"How do we set-up a conflict between these two characters?"
"Uh... Ben does something crazy."
"How do we ruin this character's plan?"
"Uh... Ben does something crazy."
"How do we strain this otherwise good relationship?"
"Uh... Ben does something crazy."
Seasons one and two are good (not as good as what they're commonly compared to: Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul, but still entertaining and well done) but season three was awful. They bring in the wife's crazy brother, Ben, who just becomes the absolute worst walking plot device I've seen in some time. Ben being bipolar allows him to very conveniently screw up every single plan and relationship in the show. It was some of the laziest and weakest writing I've ever seen in a TV show.
The writing for that season is literally just:
"How do we set-up a conflict between these two characters?"
"Uh... Ben does something crazy."
"How do we ruin this character's plan?"
"Uh... Ben does something crazy."
"How do we strain this otherwise good relationship?"
"Uh... Ben does something crazy."
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Always Sunny. Would have considered it one of the best shows a decade ago. Then it went for seasons of being such self indulgent tripe that it killed my love for what the show was.
A big joke was that Mac was a closeted gay because lol gays are funny. Then Rob McElhenney got super woke and then had to reform Mac as this incredible triumphant LGBT character. It just flies in the face of the show's premise that core characters were all horrible people who really don't deserve or seek happiness.
A big joke was that Mac was a closeted gay because lol gays are funny. Then Rob McElhenney got super woke and then had to reform Mac as this incredible triumphant LGBT character. It just flies in the face of the show's premise that core characters were all horrible people who really don't deserve or seek happiness.
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This is shockingly accurate. Scrubs become like that the second season 5 starts. Just watch the S4 finale and the first episode of S5 back to back and you'll see what I mean.
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TWD - Pretty much what everyone else has said but, I do watch for Negan and Carol. They are the only charismatic characters left on the show. I was getting excited for a possible Daryl/Connie thing (I really like her char) but she's gone MIA at the moment so...Daryl is left just grunting and sometimes crying.
House MD - House broke my heart after season 4 or so (except the season 6 season opener which was awesome). But yeah, they turned him from a very dark, interesting, anti-hero into a joke and I hated it.
Archer - This one is weird because...what I see of it I like but I stopped watching regularly. I like the idea of each season being set in a different time or whatever but....I'll just binge it IF I do watch anymore seasons.
Law and Order (mothership) - Yes, I am actually a 78year old grandmother but this show is my favorite 'there's nothing else on' and 'if its on, im watching it' show. But there are numerous seasons I just ignore. Sometimes that cast doesn't work. I think it was starting to hit its stride again when it got cancelled suddenly.
Law and Order CI - Yeah, once the main writer left and Vinny D had to pull back due to exhaustion, I stopped watching. I was excited for Goldblum to be in it but...it didn't work out, IMO.
Law and Order SVU : When it became the Benson and Stabler Power Hour and Munch/Finn were pushed to the back, completely stopped watching.
The Simpsons - My reasons are the same as everyone else's. This show use to have HEART....episodes that would make me tear up. No more of that.
House MD - House broke my heart after season 4 or so (except the season 6 season opener which was awesome). But yeah, they turned him from a very dark, interesting, anti-hero into a joke and I hated it.
Archer - This one is weird because...what I see of it I like but I stopped watching regularly. I like the idea of each season being set in a different time or whatever but....I'll just binge it IF I do watch anymore seasons.
Law and Order (mothership) - Yes, I am actually a 78year old grandmother but this show is my favorite 'there's nothing else on' and 'if its on, im watching it' show. But there are numerous seasons I just ignore. Sometimes that cast doesn't work. I think it was starting to hit its stride again when it got cancelled suddenly.
Law and Order CI - Yeah, once the main writer left and Vinny D had to pull back due to exhaustion, I stopped watching. I was excited for Goldblum to be in it but...it didn't work out, IMO.
Law and Order SVU : When it became the Benson and Stabler Power Hour and Munch/Finn were pushed to the back, completely stopped watching.
The Simpsons - My reasons are the same as everyone else's. This show use to have HEART....episodes that would make me tear up. No more of that.
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Breaking Bad.
I loved the premise, and I loved the show when people didn't really talk about it or know what it was. Then it morphed into a retarded action show, got critical acclaim and I fucking hated it. It was painful to see a show that began with a chemistry teacher being in over his head, selling drugs to fund his cancer treatment and leave money for his family, reduced to chemistry teacher teams up with druglord who runs KFC. The show lost its human element, his family becmae unlikable, his cancer seemed to be less of an issue and it just went in a cringe direction normies loved. Then it fucking ends with him mowing down nazis with a machine gun. If you told me that when it first started I would say it's retarded and totally not what the show is about, but here we are. I wish it were more hated or less popular, becuase I fucking despise the fact everone seemed to love the changes that saw it become less real and human, to more campy action BS. Yes I know early on there was the cringe scene where he throws some explosive crystal, but aside from that it was great.
Dexter.
Season 2 was the apex and I wish the series ended there. Season 3 was pretty lame, but I didn't write it off entirely, 4 had me quit just because I felt it was on a downward trajectory. I still think season 1 and 2 were amazing, but they had no dea what to do after season 2. To be fair I have no idea either as to where they would go without him getting caught or running the risk of repeating the same old formula or using plot armour.
Korra.
I enjoyed ATLA, I hated the modern setting and I expected it to be bad but holy shit. They literally killed the entire franchise, the difference between the two is mind blowing. I will just keep reminding myself it's not canon. I loved avatar as a kid, always will, but fuck this.
I loved the premise, and I loved the show when people didn't really talk about it or know what it was. Then it morphed into a retarded action show, got critical acclaim and I fucking hated it. It was painful to see a show that began with a chemistry teacher being in over his head, selling drugs to fund his cancer treatment and leave money for his family, reduced to chemistry teacher teams up with druglord who runs KFC. The show lost its human element, his family becmae unlikable, his cancer seemed to be less of an issue and it just went in a cringe direction normies loved. Then it fucking ends with him mowing down nazis with a machine gun. If you told me that when it first started I would say it's retarded and totally not what the show is about, but here we are. I wish it were more hated or less popular, becuase I fucking despise the fact everone seemed to love the changes that saw it become less real and human, to more campy action BS. Yes I know early on there was the cringe scene where he throws some explosive crystal, but aside from that it was great.
Dexter.
Season 2 was the apex and I wish the series ended there. Season 3 was pretty lame, but I didn't write it off entirely, 4 had me quit just because I felt it was on a downward trajectory. I still think season 1 and 2 were amazing, but they had no dea what to do after season 2. To be fair I have no idea either as to where they would go without him getting caught or running the risk of repeating the same old formula or using plot armour.
Korra.
I enjoyed ATLA, I hated the modern setting and I expected it to be bad but holy shit. They literally killed the entire franchise, the difference between the two is mind blowing. I will just keep reminding myself it's not canon. I loved avatar as a kid, always will, but fuck this.
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That's interesting, I considered Season 4 of Dexter to be the show's best.
It was just so much fun to see the usually lovable John Lithgow play an utter monster. It was great to have Dexter wonder if Lithgow's Trinity Killer was someone he should emulate (a model Christian Patriarch) only to realize that no the dude is an evil son of a bitch. And the ending of Dexter just defeated with no smirky recourse was brilliant. If the show had ended there it would have been perfect.