I’ve seen House of Cards (starring Kevin Spacey & Robin Wright) where the first 5 seasons were excellent, but the sixth (final) season is shit. It’s definitely been rushed during production on top of the drama with Spacey himself having to leave the show (due to allegations of sexual misconduct), so the show was rewritten into his character dying from a heart attack shifting the point of view into Robin Wright’s character instead.
The ratings plummeted but the last episode is the worst reviewed via IMDb, like WTF was that ending all about?! They didn’t even try to make it 13 episodes like the previous five seasons (cut it off at the 8th episode making that the 73rd and last, the season overall is just written poor and the script was composed last minute), too much was happening at once with no links to the previous seasons that made the series successful.
Westworld. Shoulda stopped at S1. Lost became an ongoing debacle. Futurama…the horse is not only dead its a thin paste
Upload. The first season was great. Season 2 felt like they were surprised they got renewed. Season 3 feels like they finally decided to create a plot but they’re not sure what it is.
Heroes. That show alone should be a textbook example of not to follow greed.
It should have stayed a limited run event. It was great, it was awesome, it was the show everyone was talking about. it wrapped up nicely.and then NBC got greedy and wanted more and they honestly had no idea what to do with it.
Wasn’t there a writer’s strike, too? The studios are notorious for fucking up shows because they’d rather crew the writers.
There absolutely was a writer’s strike, and the show went to shit when it happened. The first two seasons were very innovative, lots of fun stuff, and a story arc with real progression. Then they started diverging from that arc, losing focus, and had far less progress towards any conclusion. Even when there were good points, and there were, they not only didn’t advance the story but sometimes even detracted from it.
The series was supposed to be an anthology but the show got very popular so instead of doing a soft reboot for season 2 they kept the cast, which created a lot of narrative problems. Anyways the show plodded along for 2 more seasons - which were actually ok - so the writers’ strike wasn’t that big of an issue.
I doubt NBC ever regretted continuing heroes, strangling your golden goose doesn’t help anyone.
There’s some cool stuff in the later seasons, for sure, but Supernatural should have ended at Season 5.
I can forgive a character dying and the whole crew expends a lot of effort to resurrect them then off to the next crisis. But when everyone dies and gets resurrected at least once kind of removes the tension and stakes
The first five seasons is a solid drama with a coherent story arc. Seasons 6 on are a wild roller-coaster of varying quality that has a ton of comedic high points.
Anyone can stop watching after five because that is where the coherent story ends, but a lot of those later episodes are fantastic.
Doctor Who.
It’s a bit tricky when they swap out the show runners. Chibnall’s run was mediocre, confusing, and disjointed. Davies’ following run is garbage.
Which is a real shame because the actors and their characters have all been great, they’ve been let down by crap writing.
Jodie Whitaker is an amazing actor, but during her tenure, they had some bullshit writers/showrunners, and her doctor is one of the worst :/
I really liked the first season of ‘Sugar’ on Apple.
Colin Farrell as a Hollywood private eye with great clothes and a cool car.
Gave up three episodes into Season 2
I agree that season 1 was much better than season 2; however, it does get better. Kind of ironic you quit after three episodes (not that I blame you) because the fourth was the best of the season, and things turned around from there.
I’m still rooting for it to be renewed for another season. There is still plenty they can do with Colin Farrell’s character and backstory. They just need a better detective case then the one they gave us this season.
Maybe I’ll go back and try again.
Yeh I didn’t like the twist. And the jumpy cinema graphs was jarring. Other than that the detective storyline and Cf were decent. S2 nope.
I didn’t make it past the first episode. It looked like more of the same I’ve seen many times before, but not as well done.
spoiler
___It turns out he’s an alien, part of a team sent to study us.
Here’s what you learn in the show.
there’s a major change about halfway through the first season that sets it apart slightly. but i agree with the top comment, season 2 is not as good.
The 100 had a lot of wasted potential.
Season 2 of Wayward Pines was also a terrible idea
I kept with The 100 until it gave me one massacre too many.
First time I completely noped out of a show in the middle of an episode.
Strange New Worlds is well on its way. First two seasons were pretty good. Season 3 was shit, but the show runners said it was because they were rushed to finish it. Now 2 episodes into Season 4 (i think the final season), it is even worse. They are not even trying anymore.
I agree with your assessment of the first 3 seasons, I don’t think 3 was awful but definitely a step backward. I actually liked the season opener of 4.
Just continually squandering such a great idea for a show. I gave up.
