When did you stop watching a particular show?

TheIrishGrover · 26-11-2018 11:59AM #1

I watch some awful sh*t on tele. O mean, I watch some good stuff too but my taste is all over the place. I used to watch The Big Bang Theory and enjoyed it. And, to be fair, there are some small moments which are still pretty funny (Anything involving Will Wheaton). The characters were terrible stereotypes but I kind of got over it because there is an element of truth on them.

However I remember the EXACT moment I said "I'm done"

It was an episode where they wanted to get a table in the dining-room. Sheldon did his usual thing and got his way and the last line was "See Leonard? Sometimes the baby winds" and smirks. In that instant I immediately detested that character and cannot watch it.

I flick over every now and again and it makes my eye twitch whenever any of the main characters are on. As I said, there was a funny scene recently with Will Wheaton and Mark Hamil but that's it.

I also watched The Walking Dead and, while my interest had waned for a year or two I still turned it on. It had/(has?) serious pacing issues: Good first and last episode per season. Loads of sh*t in the middle. But, as I said, I still watched. Until about 3 years ago. There was a scene where

Glen was swarmed by zombies and it looked like he was dead

You knew this wasn't the situation and you knew that it was going to be resolved in a week or two. But then they dragged it out for weeks until the "surprise" twist and I thought "Nope. Done. Life is too short"

So, tldr: When did you really start to dislike a show and stop watching? Use spoilers if required please.

kerplun k · 26-11-2018 01:21PM

I used to watch Happy Days. I was watching one episode where Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis. I was done after that.

rob316 · 26-11-2018 05:42PM

Walking Dead is about the only show I gave up on after watching multiple seasons. Think around season 5, I just don't see where the show was going. Maybe when it finishes I'll pick it back up but I found each episode followed the same tired formula. Good start - dire 30 mins - cliffhanger ending.

American Horror Story is another where I have watched some seasons in its entirety, I mostly give up though.

Suits - Packed it in last season, rubbish.

Penn · 26-11-2018 05:50PM

I watched Walking Dead for far longer than it deserved, only finally giving up about 20 minutes into the first episode this season. They fell into a routine where, because they had two eight-episode blocks, episodes 1, 8, 9 and 16 were usually pretty great or had big moments, while the rest was just filler involving characters no one cared about doing god-awful stupid things where redshirts get killed and the others pretend to feel sad about it.

I've kinda given up on the CW DC shows. I might watch the crossover episodes and maybe binge a few episodes of Legends of Tomorrow over Xmas or something, but I don't know if I'll bother with The Flash or Black Lightning at all this year. Already gave up on Arrow after Season 3.

Gave up on The Sopranos at the end of Season 3 too. I thought the writing was good. I enjoyed many of the performances. But by the end of Season 3 I realised I simply didn't care about any of the characters. Any of them could have died and it wouldn't have mattered to me.

lertsnim · 26-11-2018 06:59PM

I stopped watching Lost when I saw a polar bear in the woods. I never went back to it.

I gave up on The Walking Dead after the first scene.

rob316 · 26-11-2018 07:01PM

lertsnim wrote: »

I stopped watching Lost when I saw a polar bear in the woods. I never went back to it.

I gave up on The Walking Dead after the first scene.

You've missed nothing to be fair. Lost was the biggest waste of my life I'd say and not just watching the show, the hours spent reading and discussing theories about it. The ending was the biggest load of ****, nothing was really explained.

BoroMan32 · 26-11-2018 08:14PM

I'll stay watching most things, unless they are utterly horrendous. If a tv drama is 5/6 episodes long it's not exactly a huge time commitment to stick with it no matter how bad it is (Finding Joy & Taken Down two recent dismal examples).

26-11-2018 08:27PM

I watched ‘This is us’ after the really strong opening episode. About ten episodes in, the cloying sentimentality finally got to me and I bailed.

26-11-2018 08:32PM

Suits early on, despite showing promise. Louis Litt character unbalances the show with cringeworthy theatrics.

Defunkd · 26-11-2018 08:53PM

The Walking Dead: stopped when they 'killed' Glenn but then showed that he survived even though surrounded by feasting Zombies.
Fear TWD: it focused too much on relationships and character arcs. Wasted potential.
Lost: was told they had a set amount of episodes and definite ending. Before S2 started, the producers said it could go on for a few more seasons, so i signed off.
Breaking Bad: found it boring tbh. Watched 2 seasons and had no interest to go on.
The Simpsons: stopped being funny years ago. I like to catch the halloween sketches cos they can be good but i haven't watched a new ep in a long time.
Family Guy has the odd joke but not worth 20 mins of life.
Never watched The Sopranos cos i despise the mafia.
IASIP has some good gags but ...eeehh, i haven't the patience

Mr.Nice Guy · 26-11-2018 10:35PM

I tried hard to stick with TWD despite feeling the quality had nosedived but I knew I wasn't going to last much longer when they expected me to believe that in Trump country an African-American pretending to be a British king from the 16th century, whilst walking around with a pet tiger, would be viewed as a leader of men, and not be seen as, you know, a complete basket case. Not to mention the people living in garbage, the OTT gurning acting of Negan, Carol the former battered housewife who in a few seasons morphs into James Bond taking out several baddies at once, and so on...

26-11-2018 11:06PM

True Blood at the end of season 3 or early on in season 4 I think. How did a HBO show turn into such complete scutter.........

ixoy · 26-11-2018 11:26PM

I've dropped more shows in the last few years as there's too much good out there. Generally drop it between seasons when I realise I'm not that bothered so can only remember a few breaking points where I dropped out mid season:

'Bones' - The 200th black and white episode. Utter rubbish and I realised I really didn't care anymore.

'Family Guy' - Can't recall the episode but someone was on the run for murder (one of the news casters had died or something) and it wasn't even remotely funny or even good as a drama. Dropped.

'Criminal Minds' - Buffy's Xander showed up as a 7eet hacker. All the tech talk was 100x worse than normal but there was an actual line that did it for me, something akin to : "You're good. ""You're even better". Such poor writing and I was gone.

Other shows should have just been one season so I dropped 'The Affair' for example.

fryup · 26-11-2018 11:29PM

Dallas - Pam finding Bobby in the shower...meaning the previous season was all a dream

c'mon now

CastorTroy · 27-11-2018 12:54AM

kerplun k wrote: »

I used to watch Happy Days. I was watching one episode where Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis. I was done after that.

If only there was a term for this.

The Walking Dead seems to be a common answer. Dropped it in the second half of last season. May go back some time but I read the comics so know must of what will happen. They make so many stupid decisions.

Of the DC shows, I dropped Supergirl and giving Flash and Arrow until the crossover. Legends is the best of them.

X Files was watched constantly until I went on placement and getting to watch what I want in a shared house in 2000 wasn't easy. Though all the conspiracies and main actor changes didn't exactly encourage me to try.

Loads of shows got dropped in favour of others

The Princess Bride · 27-11-2018 01:12AM

Grey's Anatomy - when Izzie started seeing Denny's ghost.

Fair City - when Billy Sheehan came into it.
I had to use google, as I couldn't remember the names of either of the male characters.

27-11-2018 01:27AM

Westworld when it crawled up its own arse, out its mouth and back up its own arse.

That was about in episode 6 of the first season.

Stupidly I watched until the end of the first season.

Haven't watched any more but from scanning boards it only got worse.

t1h9mgqsxopj0r · 27-11-2018 01:28AM

lertsnim wrote: »

I stopped watching Lost when I saw a polar bear in the woods. I never went back to it.

I gave up on The Walking Dead after the first scene.

I gave up watching Lost after the polar bear as well. I was ruined after that

I stopped watching the walking dead after season 4. I just couldn’t put myself through it anymore.

t1h9mgqsxopj0r · 27-11-2018 01:35AM

I loved it’s always Sunny in Philadelphia until they hit season 10 and it went downhill after that. I had to force myself to watch season 12 and 13 because of the hype and Christ almighty they should of known it was a complete flop. Seasons before 10 were decent. Seasons before 5 were perfect and amazing. You could tell they were running out of ideas after season 10 but didn’t want to end the whole idea of always Sunny so they continued to make episodes that just weren’t funny anymore. Granted Danny DiVito pretty much made always Sunny when he was casted and if it wasn’t for him, the show wouldn’t have made as much of a fan base as it has now but they should of stopped completely after season 10. I do love the gang and I find myself playing the older episodes when I’m getting ready or just taking it easy at home but they have to make the final episode. “The gang says goodbye”

Edit: I forgot to add in Trailer Park boys as well. Their earliest seasons were brilliant. Their newest seasons, Christ on a bike. It was awful. Again with always Sunny, both shows knew they should of stopped but tried to keep the name going. Bubbles stopped being funny when they hit the later seasons and Randy and his ever expanding gut started to get on my nerves. The earlier episodes of trailer park boys with bubbles and conky were too funny. The best lines always came from Ricky’s mouth and bubbles never failed to deliver with his responses but Randy started to put me off the show

Unearthly · 27-11-2018 08:19AM

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I tried hard to stick with TWD despite feeling the quality had nosedived but I knew I wasn't going to last much longer when they expected me to believe that in Trump country an African-American pretending to be a British king from the 16th century, whilst walking around with a pet tiger, would be viewed as a leader of men, and not be seen as, you know, a complete basket case. Not to mention the people living in garbage, the OTT gurning acting of Negan, Carol the former battered housewife who in a few seasons morphs into James Bond taking out several baddies at once, and so on...

Your weekly reviews are missed

Wibbs · 27-11-2018 01:12PM

The Walking Dead sometime last season. Though TBH I had switched off a couple of seasons before and tended to bing watch in fast forward. FTWD I preferred, but when they moved out of California, had the crossover dude from TWD and copied the daftness of the main show, it went downhill rapidly for me. I might watch a few more next season and hope for the best.

Big Bang Theory, a few years ago now. Major dive in quality near overnight and it was hardly Fawlty Towers to begin with.

The Simpsons many years ago now. Can't recall the last time I watched one TBH and that was once the programme to watch.

Dr Who about midway in Capaldi's run. And I really liked him for the role outa the gate. He just looked like the character, but the scripts got ever more low quality and the new age moralising ever more blunt headed. When they went with the new show runner and Whittaker and knowing the show runners previous it was game over for me. I dipped into it since and for me the right on preachy and dumbed down cliche level was even more reinforced than I had imagined. Plus Whittaker appears to have only two acting modes, serious face and mouth open catching flies, and both are irritating.

The CW superhero stuff I'd only drop into occasionally and drop out just as quickly. I liked Black Lightning at first, but got all a bit too Cosby Show for me. Something that can happen with some African American centric shows.

I liked Gotham at first and got into it, but around midway in the third season I lost the gra for it.

Loved the first series of Mr Mercedes(I'd watch Brendan Gleason walking around his front room), but after the first two outings of the second... Nope.

jammiedodgers · 27-11-2018 01:18PM

Dexter - Lost interest at the start of Season 5. Very disappointing as Season 4 of Dexter is one of the best seasons of a television series I've ever watched.

loyatemu · 27-11-2018 01:25PM

The Simpsons - season 8 or so, it was already in decline

Better Call Saul - season 1 was OK but very slow, I keep hearing how good it is so will probably give it another go.

I've watched the first seasons of a lot of things and just never got round to watching the rest because I don't have time, even when they're pretty good (The Americans, Narcos, The Wire...)

pxdf9i5cmoavkz · 27-11-2018 01:28PM

Pretty interesting that The Walking Dead is mentioned a lot in this thread.

I too gave up on the show. I cannot remember which episode it was but they were in some town and a part of the group ran into some of Negan's men (Negan had not been introduced yet). I think it was Daryl who pulls out a RPG and blasts those men. The thing was that his friends were maybe 5 meters away from the explosion but they were not injured. Last I checked RPG Explosions do not have friendly fire detection.

Then came the point that made me stop watching. Later on in the same episode the group arrives at some place and uses the RPG to set fire to a river. That was it for me. The suspension of disbelief had been violated far too much and I immediately stopped the episode and deleted the entire series.

Let's not forget this gem from TWD too:

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glasso wrote: »

Westworld when it crawled up its own arse, out its mouth and back up its own arse.

That was about in episode 6 of the first season.

Stupidly I watched until the end of the first season.

Haven't watched any more but from scanning boards it only got worse.

Haha. Those were my thoughts too but only for the second season.

Arcsurvivor · 01-12-2018 05:05PM

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel- watched part of the first episode and did not find the show funny.

DC's legends of tomorrow- Watched first season and found it to be corny. Saw the 2nd season trailer and decided I would stop watching.

Keplar240B · 01-12-2018 05:54PM

quickbeam · 01-12-2018 06:01PM

rob316 wrote: »

You've missed nothing to be fair. Lost was the biggest waste of my life I'd say and not just watching the show, the hours spent reading and discussing theories about it. The ending was the biggest load of ****, nothing was really explained.

I watched Lost to the end, and, while the last episode(s) was rather disappointing, I like to think it was an experience about the journey, not the destination. And in fairness, it was a pretty awesome journey. Ergo, Lost still holds a special spot in my heart.

harr · 01-12-2018 06:02PM

Walking dead as mentioned by a lot of people.... breaking bad just couldn’t get into it maybe I should have given more time..
Recently It’s Mr. Mercedes season 2 really enjoyed season one but stopped after a couple of episodes of season 2.
I generally hate tv shows that have loads and loads of seasons ...I generally try to stick to mini series where possible...maybe 5 or 6 episodes long, otherwise I get bored.
Enjoying the ballad of buster strugs currently on Netflix... dark and funny..

Harry Palmr · 01-12-2018 06:13PM

X Files when Mulder left, I came back when he came back.

GBX · 01-12-2018 06:16PM

The walking dead dragged on too much. Meandered without too much going on and rehashed a lot of story lines.
After season 6 I stopped

pixelburp · 01-12-2018 06:24PM

I dropped Game of Thrones and Walking Dead around the same time; both shows just left me feeling sh*tty, and certainly the latter's well documented poor writing left me equally flummoxed as to why I was wasting my time with something I fundamentally didn't enjoy and left me feeling worse.

Same with Game of Thrones, walked away after season 3 and the same, cynical trick being played over and over. Both shows an endless loop of nihilism and misery (with that in mind it has been why I've stayed away from the Handmaids Tale; it has always looked like Misery Porn taken to extremes).

In a general sense, if my net enjoyment outweighs the flaws however, visible or narrative, I'll keep watching. Something like The Flash I'm skirting close to dropping due to its shamefully lazy writing but still go back cos of its peppy energy. But life's too short to waste time watching garbage you don't / can't enjoy.

When did you stop watching a particular show?

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