One of my favorite programs was NCIS, but it became stale around Season 9 and should have ended then. It's still being cranked out, along with a couple of spin-offs.
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shareThe Blacklist, Supernatural & Homeland. All three of 'em just missed their perfect opportunities to end on a high note.
They went on & on & got stale imo.
Yep The Blacklist started off so well and then gradually became dumber and dumber. When the lead actress left the show should have ended.
Homeland - loved it till the lead actor left. Never liked the Claire Danes character.
Supernatural - the first five seasons were awesome. After that it struggles.
The Blacklist - Also, they just kept dragging the "who is Reddington" mystery for so long that I genuinely stopped caring. And not even the wonderful James Spader could keep me watching
Homeland - Honestly, a few of the seasons after his death were still good imo. But yeah, I'm with you, Claire Danes character was a bit much.
Mandy Patinkin & Rupert Friend were pretty great & one of the main reasons I watched for a couple more seasons. But after a while, it just felt like they were beating a dead horse
Supernatural - The actual Creator of the show intended for it to end after five seasons. But it just kept going on & on. They just didn't know when to put the show out of its misery.
Reddington was great and a bit of a throwback type character when it started. He has become a parody of himself now. All his hobbies and expensive tastes. The show has just went on too long.
I was surprised that Homeland was meant as a vehicle for Danes. It was a terrible character always popping pills and being anxious. Not very CIA agent like or whatever agency she worked for.
I read Supernatural being described as monster of the week when it started. I liked it that way!! A lot of the story arcs they brought in later on were just boring and went onto long.
I tended to not watch a lot of it except when they did one of their whacky episodes. I loved the one they did around the scooby gang.
Nailed your description of Reddington. He definitely became a parody. Even his monologues became tiresome.
As for Danes' character, she would've worked better as a supporting character but I couldn't believe she was supposed to be lead
Supernatural actually completed its arc. The story that started in the first episode concluded with the final episode of season 5.
The later seasons legit produced some fantastic standalone episodes but the seasons as a whole ranged from watchable to absolutely horrendous
Thanks, in a recent ep he spoke about being part of some historical re enactor group. It was just too.much his child like enthusiasm for just about everything.
Yes they rescued their father from hell. The following few seasons were still good. What made the.show was the.humour and chemistry of the cast. If you have seen the awful The Winchesters prequel they do everything wrong despite Jensen Ackles being a producer.
I didn't even bother with the prequel show.
Firstly, nothing about it looked appealing (at least to me)
And secondly, the eventual ending to the show left such a bad taste in my mouth that I don't wanna revisit that world any time soon.
I didn't last long with it, it was truly bad. I didn't like that Sam died either, it should have gone out on a high note.
shareI think after the creator left with season 5, they just didn't know when or how to end it.
So they just kept churning it out just cause people why watching it. Screw quality, just keep feeding people mediocrity.
That's why I think Supernatural is a PERFECT example of a show that lasted waaay longer than it needed to
Almost all of them which last more than 5 seasons.
shareI like what the Brits usually do a few seasons with not many eps but a tight story line.
shareI agree. I mean shows like Midsomer Murders has been going on for 23 seasons and it only has 136 episodes. NCIS on the other hand has been on for 20 seasons, but has 458 episodes.
shareNCIS died when DiNizzo left and then other regs left. Probie lacks the charisma to carry the show and they know it so they bring Gary Cole.
I don’t binge much tv anymore but I would prefer right eps then lots of filler eps which have nothing to do anything.
And procedurals get repetitive anyway.
I think this is why I enjoy British TV so much.
shareThe X-Files
The Simpsons
Twin Peaks (original run)
My three favourite shows back in the 90s.
X-Files collapsed by Season 10 but it had a pretty good run
The Simpsons is a carcass on life support for 2 decades
The Simpsons is like on season 30 something now! I can’t believe that there are many people who even care.
shareThe Simpsons made its debut in 1989 and has become the longest running animated series in history. It's also the longest running scripted television show of all time.
It looks like someone cares.
The X files kinda fell apart without Mulder for me. I did not hate Agent Doggett as much as others but it just lost something without Mulder & Scully.
And the revival/continuation was definitely missing something. It just lost the edge & the uniqueness of the original. It did have one or two good (standalone) episodes though
'The X files kinda fell apart without Mulder for me. I did not hate Agent Doggett as much as others but it just lost something without Mulder & Scully.'
I agree. And the shift where Scully became the believer (because - understandably - Doggett was the sceptic) didn't work for me. After all the things she and Mulder experienced she still wouldn't accept many of Mulder's claims when she was working with him; yet now Doggett's arrived she suddenly has an epiphany? It really jarred.
Right? That shit was infuriating. Genuinely felt like a "soft reboot"
I think Robert Patrick is great but the show should've just ended after the whole mess with Duchovny leaving & stuff.
In my opinion, Mulder & Scully are the show. Both of them. Without 'em, it's kinda pointless.
They even made the mediocre seasons 'bearable'
Wasn’t the problem with Twin Peaks is that the network pushed David Lynch to reveal Laura Palmer’s killer but he originally intended that the murder would not be solved and be a backstory.
shareThey did. It was compounded by the fact they wanted it revealed before the end of the second season. Which left them with a load of episodes to fill (hence all the dreadful Civil War re-enactment stuff and James getting involved in that Double Indemnity type plot with the rich-bitch wife).
shareHouse,
Bones,
The problem with Bones is she never progresses socially. She is just as naive and awkward at the end as she was at the start. It just gets old.
shareWhat frustrated me with Bones (I mostly quit after the stuff with Zack) was that in season one she wasn't that awkward. When they made the changes for season 2, they changed some of her history with being in foster care, and they made her much more socially inept.
shareI only watched occasionally but they do that a lot to tv characters and it is annoying. Awkward or not she went through college she had a broad education and yet she knows almost nothing outside her field.
Except when it suits the writers otherwise.
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shareYeah, I agree. Moreover, it seemed like she was progressing through the series, but I can't remember which season it was when she reverted/devolved to any changes she's made previously.
shareMiami Vice. Ran out of ideas by the middle of season 4. They did an episode where Crockett and Tubbs are investigating a stolen bull sperm case...
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