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The Simpsons. The episodes from the 1990s can still get a laugh out of me. I have a hard time sitting through anything after the mid 2000s.
(But props to you if you enjoy it - it just isn’t my cup of tea)
I keep hearing people say it’s gotten good again. I should really check it out.
Oh yeah? Maybe I should take another try. With a recession coming on, I feel like there’s more material.
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Heroes, First season was great. Writers strike hit and season 2 and beyond was… bad.
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The Walking Dead. I dropped off around Season 3 and am shocked every time I see stories about the crazy things they’ve added.
I watched until 4, I think. Then it turned into torture porn and I bailed.
Just getting closer to the comics. The disgusting over-the-top comics.
The Simpsons.
By like 20 years now.
Oddly enough, it’s good again
Not first-eight-seasons good.
Scrubs
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Futurama. It ended a long time ago. Leave it be
I’m going to say one piece, not that it ever got bad, I just couldn’t keep watching after episode 1,000 or so there’s just so much of it.
Although I no longer regard it as near my favourite: The Walking Dead.
Who keeps mowing the grass??
But seriously The Handmaid’s Tale about halfway through the third season it became too obvious they had no plan and started introducing things that contradicted things that had already happened
Bones.
What’s worse is that now I end up having it binged every now and then because my wife still likes even the later seasons. When you watch it like that, all the little issues show up more.
Stargate SG1. Don’t get me wrong I love the last few seasons but they just don’t have the same energy as the first ~7 seasons.
Yeah, I agree. The Ori never really worked as villains for me.
This was also during the transition from episodic to serial being the cool thing on TV and they didn’t make that jump very gracefully.
You know why that is? The goa’uld carried the show. Once they weren’t the biggest threat anymore, there wasn’t really anywhere to go. SG1 relied on Earth being the scrappy underdog on the verge of being wiped out. Each individual goa’uld could act as the big bad of the week, get defeated and you know that there’d be another one to take its place the next week. The goa’uld were simultaneously familiar, threatening and varied. Once they were out of the way, the replicators and ori got wiped out a good season or two after being introduced. They didn’t have the staying power that the Goa’uld did. And worse, near the end of the series, when youve killed what are effectively gods, how do you create tension? Earth is basically an interstellar power, SG1 are essentially demigods and the biggest threats are effectively gone.
Battlestar Galactica from the 00’s. It was written as a 3 season show but was padded out by another season to exploit its popularity. As a consequence, season 3 is not good.
The US version of The Office.
This one’s tough, because I like James Spader’s ridiculous character in season 8 a lot, but think the rest of the story had long since run its course.
The whole retail store story arc was quite a damp squib, and it feels like the show never really recovered.
James Spader’
He was in it? I never made it that far.
The good wife. It became a bit distant from early episodes and meandered a bit. New characters were good but it was odd having main cast not share scenes due to personal falling out.
Sex and the city. Started out topical and fresh. Became a melodrama. Now revived as a melodrama.
Downton Abbey. Good cast and stories but time jumps meant you kept losing plots, characters and subplots, so it fizzled out.
