Person Asks “What TV Show Was Amazing At First But Became Unwatchable For You Later On?”, And 30 Folks Deliver

First few seasons were great with pretty good pacing. Later seasons devolve into telling one story at a time. They’d have a cliffhanger of a character maybe dying and do 3 weeks of other stories. By the time it gets back to the cliffhanger you have no idea what’s happening. That and it got repetitive.

I was enamored with it for the first 5 seasons. 6 only reinforced my love but I remember some cracks starting to show.

7 went downhill super fast and I refused to sully my memories with 8.

Grey's Anatomy 100%. The show was great, but I just can't keep up with all the twists and turns and freaky accidents anymore. It's also a lot less funny. It should have ended seasons ago.

bog--wizard said:
Once Upon a Time. The first 3 seasons were good! And then after that they just kept getting worse.

RittleMeThis27 replied:
I watched about that much til it got boring and too weird. I enjoyed them giving Disney characters a twist separate from their movie counterparts. Then something about seeing Elsa basically cosplaying the animated movie made me stop. It was more fun when they left us guessing who the new person was and not throwing it in our faces like that.

season8branisusless said:
Firefly. Second season is literally unwatchable.

Shawn_1512 replied:
Me and Abed have an agreement. If one of us dies, we stage it to look like a suicide caused by the unjust cancellation of Firefly.

Season 1 was great and fresh. Season 2 didn't know what to do with itself and just started giving everyone super powers.

By Season 3, characters were just changing motivations at the drop of a hat and it was just a huge mess of bad writing.

Pm_Me_All_The_Feet said:
Westworld, on HBO. Season 1 was amazing! By episode 3 of season 2 I was done. Damn shame...

ejpierle replied
This. Season 1 was a damn near perfect 1 season story. If they had had any balls at all, they would've stopped there and gone down in history as one of the best single seasons of all time. But some assholes at HBO backed the money truck up, and we all know how that ended...

Not the worst offender, but That 70's Show tanked pretty hard once Eric left. He was sorely needed to make the chemistry of the group work.

Spider-Gwen_ said:
The 100.

agawl81 replied:
You are onecrew or you are an enemy of oncrew - choose.

It has some really quotable stuff, but my god, the endless self sabotage by the main character just gets so old.

When the fairies entered the picture, I exited.

fefvrisketa said:
Misfits, unfortunately.

doctor_x replied:
"Let's replace the entire cast with less interesting characters and have them never use their abilities. Lunch?"

HoraceSense said:
House of Cards.

usernameunavaliable replied:
The first two seasons were amazing. After that it started to get progressively worse.

IMO, it should have been 2 seasons of him reaching the presidency, and then 2 seasons of everything going downhill.

4 seasons total, 1 for each suit of cards. 2 for building the house of cards, 2 for making it fall apart.

nolaonmymind said:
I tried to rewatch it recently, remembered the last season, and just didn't want to.

Techerous replied:
What's especially frustrating is if they had ended the show after 4 seasons like the creators wanted to the ending everyone hated actually would have made sense because they wouldn't have proven 4-5 times that Robin and Ted don't work together.

How to Get Away with Murder. The first season had some intrigue and plot... and then they just start murdering people left and right after that.

monoloco-plus said:
Riverdale.

VeryDPP replied:
I'm not convinced the guy who writes Riverdale has ever spoken to a real teenager.

I stick this one out purely for the hilarity of it. Archie and the gang have super powers now and are fighting an evil wizard (I am not making that up).

MiZe97 said:
It's what happens when you try to make so many seasons for a show meant for only a few.

Stewba replied:
Arrows first season is dope when he is murdering everyone. I wish he never discovered the power of friendship.

DiegoDynomite said:
The Flash on CW.

Somerandom1922 replied:
Flash and Arrow both got screwed by Netflix DareDevil showing how good it could be imo.

I was into both Arrow and Flash, then Daredevil came out and I just kept noticing inconsistencies and budget issues.

But I will say Grant Gustin does make a good Barry Allen.

whiteoff44 said:
Vikings … I’m shocked no one mentioned it yet.

w1987g replied:
I haven't watched anything past Ragnar. I love me Lagertha with all my heart, but I could see the writing on the wall knowing that boneless was going to go full psycho.

Also, I'm still pissed Siggy died like she did. ASLAUG CAN ROT IN HEL!

At first it was a fresh setting for a procedural with likeable, developed characters. But then Brennan got Flanderized hard starting around S4 and it was never the same.

So many loopholes and a never ending plot. I mean, the female hero (forgot her name) was wanted and had her pictures broadcast nationwide live, but a couple of weeks after she can do undercover work.