Shows that go stupid

[OneFrenchEgg]

So I've become addicted to Lie To Me. Started brilliant, ended up fucking ridiculous. I can see why season 4 didn't happen.
Like the mentalist - loved it, cried when he found Red John and killed him in the cafe. But no! They had to carry on and rewrite that.

@DuncanBiscuits it was never the same once they became millionaires.

Definitely Lost.

At the end of every episode you would think that at least something interesting would be revealed in the next one to try and piece thjngs together a bit, but the plot just kept thickening further and in the end I just got bored. I didn't make it anywhere near to the end!

Heroes (WHO?!) started out really good and went a bit crap.

House
Workin Moms

Bad Girls
love the show but it lost it when fennel died and they started bringing ghosts in.
Although IMO it started to lose it after series 3 when Helen and Nikki left (But I’m a massive Simone Lahbib fan so I’m biased

Billions - mad as a hatter

So many shows ruin themselves and get silly. Knowing when to stop is clearly a rare and delicate art.

A lot of sitcoms in particular, and especially American sitcoms, get too sentimental about their characters and start trying to make all of them sympathetic, even the ones who are funny because they aren't sympathetic. And they do the thing where they make them all best friends and engineer them all a lovely happy ending and all the comedy is gone and you realise you are now watching a rubbish soap opera.

Holby city was best when it had three patients, with symptoms and you could play guessing what the diseases were and which patient would be dead by the end of the episode. It became too soapy , the patients became irrelevant and the story lines ludicrous. The hospital had avery high count of doctors Who were also serial killers and gun toting maniacs.

You me and her. It was never great but actually ok to watch in the first season. Absolutey awful after that.

Sex and the City, sadly.

House of Cards.

My dad always says that as soon as a comedy resorts to fancy dress for laughs, it's run out of ideas and on the downward spiral. I tend to agree with him.

Dawsons Creek seasons 1-4 were great. The last two, where they all went off to college/work, were awful.

There was a brilliant Netflix show called Bloodline which ran for one season too many. The first two were amazing and should have ended there but the writers were persuaded into doing one more and it ruined the entire show as a couple of actors left midway through and had to be written out under ridiculous storylines.

Liar
Keeping Faith
The Split
Broadchurch

all of them were horrible after the first season

The Ultimate example - Riverdale.

A live action of the Archie comics where a group of teens solves a murder.

Season 5 - they're opening portals, witches, in new dimensions, time travelling utterly bonkers!!

Twin Peaks… I know it started off weird, but it sort of felt like it had a point. Then it became a pot-smoker’s paranoid delusion and was just irritating af.

You. Absolutely ridiculous.

Dr Who itself went stupid before, regenerated brilliantly (hah) but then went stupid again (we had to give up on the latest Doctor, regretfully.)

Here’s Henry Winkler jumping the shark.
Again.

The Affair for sure

YES! They should have ended it when Damian Lewis left

There's also so many comedy ones that start off funny and then just get really immature and daft. Californication was comical with a good premise in season 1 and 2 and then just goes completely immature and daft!

I know soaps are a bit different and it was never the best one in the first place but DH and I were looking up Hollyoaks actors we had seen in other shows and found a Hollyoaks Wiki where each character's page lists the murders and attempted murders they've all committed. How the whole thing isn't set in a prison now I have no idea. 😂

I thought Killing Eve absolutely plummeted in quality, after season one, when the show's writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge left. Instead of being able to lose myself in the delicious bonkerness of it all, I ended up hate-watching and getting cross that it was trying too hard. And then, eventually, straight up not watching. Such a shame.

I loved the Royle Family until they made Dave absolutely thick as pig shit. Don’t actually understand why they did that

Benidorm as well was shit after the first 3 series

Waterloo Road being the main one, in what world would a school move from Manchester to Scotland in the first place, AND take all its existing pupils?!

It refers to the episode of Happy Days when the Fonz literally jumps a shark.

I'm glad manifest was mentioned, such a good premise, then God.

There are far more shows that I never finish than ones I do. So many start off so well but run out of steam or replacement characters don't do it for me. Eventually a lot of shows are so far from where they started that I lose interest.
Most mentioned though I did love Line of Duty from start to finish.

New Amsterdam- the second series was bad enough but the most recent is just utterly ridiculous.

Greys is dire - should have stopped 5 series ago/ can somebody please kill off bloody Owen Hunt!

The problem with American series is they just don't know when to stop!

@KnottyKnitting

OMG yes, the setting up of the clinic for poor people in Hampstead.