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TV Shows you stopped watching


Has anyone really enjoyed a show, watched many seasons of it then stopped for whatever reason?

My most recent is The Walking Dead, a show I really love but it seems to have gone downhill and therefore I have had no motivation to watch it for the past year.

I wouldn't include shows where you've watched some of the first season and then ditched it, as I think that's pretty common.

Other shows I've stopped (not all for the same reasons and some i hope to catch up on/finish):

Bates Motel
Lost
Breaking Bad
Skins (UK)
Shameless (UK & US)
Gotham
Mad Men

It seems I abandon shows quite frequently... my bad.

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Yep heaps I am not one of these die hard fans that hang onto a show well past it's use by date.

*The Walking Dead - It was becoming hopeless. I know it is a dark theme and that is fine but it was repetitive and hopeless.
* The Big Bang Theory - Once all the guys coupled up it was down hill, and Raj is a lost cause. More importantly it just stopped being funny.
* Outlander - Just pushed it too much.
* Game of Thrones - Just got bored with it.
* Modern Family - First was ok started watching the second one and found I just didn't care anymore.
* American Horror Story - First season was awesome. Second I didn't like. I didn't bother after that.
* Dexter - Lost interest when Jimmy Smits arrived, was already bored with it before then.
* Homeland - Once Brody was out of the picture I lost interest.
* Gotham - First season good, second just couldn't get into it. Jayda Pinket's character was annoying me too.
* Hell on Wheels - I watched right up until the Swede getting hung to me that was when the show was over. It had become all about the Swede and lost the plot of it's original premise.

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I stopped watching Dexter for a while when Jimmy Smits arrived, too! His character was beyond annoying and that whole season was just dragging.

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To me Dexter was supposed to be this semi loner hiding in the open. From memory Smits was supposed to be some long lost brother. It was just a pointless concept.

I had lost interest before that anyway.

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So many.

Of yours, Mad Men is my favourite TV show ever, which I've watched probably 15+ times by now. Loved Bates Motel too, another excellent, very layered and well done show.

Breaking Bad -- saw the first episode and lost interest by the end of it.

Lost -- caught an episode or maybe two in the first season, figured no way was it a show you could get coming in so late. Started watching it from the beginning a few years ago. Made it through several seasons, lost (ha) interest.

Ray Donovan -- Caught my interest for the first couple of seasons, then petered out for me. Have a slight interest in seeing if it picked up again, but ditched Showtime (or was it HBO?) and have no interest in picking it up again. Guess I'd watch if Prime or Netflix got it.

The X-Files -- Probably good for its time, but I only caught a couple of random episodes while it was being aired. It was okay, just not enough for me to want to bother watching if anything else was on I was more interested in. Started watching it from the beginning a few years ago, because someone whose opinion I respected raved about it. Lost interest somewhere in the second season.

Homeland -- Loved the first 3 seasons, probably mostly because Damian Lewis is such an amazing actor and his character was fascinating. Regained interest not long after they introduced Rupert Friend's character, who was also very interesting. After that, I couldn't be bothered with it anymore, and doubt I'll ever watch it again.

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I chucked From Dust Till Dawn: The Series. The first season was not bad, but, really, it was just a 10-hour version of the movie. After the second episode of Season 2, I asked myself, “Why am I watching this?” and did not have a good answer.

Cat, the location for Ray Donovan has moved from Hollywood to New York, and Susan Sarandon has joined the cast. You might find it worth another look. Of course, I have a fondness for things connected with Beantown.

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Criminal Minds. I watched one episode and had nightmares all night long.

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The Looming Tower (2018) - based on a great book about the lead up to the 9/11 attacks but I could barely get through episode one as the production values were poor. They focused way too much on the lead actor's personal life. I was looking forward to it and was disappointed at the result.

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I stopped watching the Walking Dead around the time Glenn was killed by Negan. Not because I missed Glen that much necessarily, but the show just wasn't as good.

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A few more

* Supernatural - I liked the monster of the week theme but when it switched to longer story arcs I found them boring and they also became repetitious.
* Ghost Adventures - Fun while it lasted but a change in how they did things made it boring.
* The Simpsons - I just stopped watching it.

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I liked House of Cards until about the time Underwood became president and the show went from being a critique of power to being "rah-rah America" and starting in on all this anti-Russian nonsense.

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Gotham
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Bones
House M.D.

Those are the only shows I've watched where I managed to get at least a season or two in before dropping. I'm sure there have been several other programs that I've watched the first two or three episodes of then lost interest.
I don't bother watching anything week to week on network television anymore. Much easier to binge shows online.

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