TV show you gave up on

The man in the High castle.

Potential and setting -10/10

horrible 2 dimensional characters with literally no traits or development 1/10

Probably most of them before 2000, after the turn of the century I was more selective in what I watched and just tended to stick to shows because I felt there wasn't much else to watch. The last show I gave up on was the original CSI, I believe.

I never watched past Season 5 of Supernatural. I wanted to but never got around to it and could believe they stretched out the show to 15 seasons.

definitely Criminal Minds around the time Hotchner left

Goldbergs, overdone rehash

The Walking Dead. I made it to Season 7 or 8. But it kept repeating the pattern of here is a new town with a new villian. Plus I got annoyed with the way they drag things out. For example, someone gets separated from the group, episode ends on a cliff hanger, the entire next episode is about what they are doing by themself. I just stopped caring after a while. It’s a good show, it’s just should’ve ended years ago.

I am not a completist, so my list would likely be too long to squeeze in to one post, but when I think about the much smaller number of shows that I truly liked and made sure to keep up with, two come to mind:

I loved the mini-series reboot of Battlestar Galactica and was really in to the series it spawned at first. In fact, I loved the majority of the first season. The second season began to feel more and more like a soap opera with one gimmick: "Who's a *spoiler*?" It was somewhere around five or six episodes from its conclusion and I realized I didn't care where it was going any more and just left it there.

Secondly, and I know this is weird, but hear me out: I rank The Sopranos as one of TVs greatest dramas and IIRC, I never felt any lulls or dips in quality. I seriously loved the whole show. At some point I switched from DVRing the show from HBO and just bought the DVD season box sets and binged those. When they broke season six, the final season, in to two half season boxes, two things happened, in the delay before they released the second half of season six, as much as I avoided message boards, etc. the finale got partly spoiled, IIRC by f'ing Howard Stern, and I finally got a BD player. So on my shelf, after all these years, sits an untouched Sopranos season six part two BD box set.

Part of me loved the show so much I didn't want it to end, especially in the unsatisfying fashion I *think* it *may* have ended, but another part of me plans to rewatch the whole series and finally finish the second half of S06. It'll happen.

[edit] On a much smaller note, as a huge Will Forte fan, I started The Last Man on Earth with great enthusiasm. But after a couple episodes they "broke their promise," and the more characters they added, the more my interest waned. Plus, as much as I loved Kristen Schaal in The Flight of the Conchords, I found her character in this kinda annoying. Didn't make it very far. Maybe halfway through S01.

The Expanse