Series that have run their course

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I am thinking of series which used to be great, but have been on for so long that they have become hackneyed. There are a number of these, but I am particularly thinking of Grey's Anatomy. This used to be a top class series, but some time ago lost it's gloss, becoming toe curlingly trite and dull to the extent that it would not be out of place on the Hallmark Channel. IMO it should have been put to bed about five series back. Why are some originally fine series allowed to become parodies of themselves?

Agree re GA. Loved it, but now I just can't be bothered. It's gone through all plausible and implausible storylines and now is just weird. And now a Key Character has left (no spoilers!) it is just not the same.
Walking Dead is the same I find.

Supernatural and the walking dead(boring) as I call it. Both I stopped watching a good few seasons back

I started watching Blindspot on Sky a couple of years ago, and that should have stopped at about season 2/3. It's gone on to 5 or might be 6 now but it's just ridiculous.

Bones also went on for far too long. I loved it, but again they'd have been better to go out a season or two earlier.

What should never have stopped is Elementary because that was still fantastic!

I’ve found Greys has lost its pulled. I suppose now they’re actual grown ups it can only go so much further. None of the characters still in it have made have lasting impression and I although I watch it, I much prefer old Greys. There doesn’t seem to be much growth room left for the characters and I miss the more interesting medicine stuff that they did before.

They all seem to end with this fuzzy "feelgood" feeling about them and that is just WRONG!

The Walking Dead is as mentioned boring. But I do very much like Fear the Walking Dead.

As for "reboots" , and bright announcements that a "new" series of the X Files is in the works (some time back).... Just NO!!

Yesterday I read that a "reboot" of Buffy is planned. Not too sure how I feel about that!

American Horror Story sadly. It really tailed off towards the end - Asylum was my high point - and the new 'Ratched' doesn't do it for me either, weird considering I was fascinated with her in the book (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). It's beautiful to look at but I feel a lot of the acting has been done to death (no pun intended :).

Orange is the New Black got so stupid and the characters all became sort of absurd.

Madmen went on too long.

Handmaid’s Tale should have stopped at one series, as should Killing Eve.

Agree with Killing Eve, thought the first series was excellent, not bothered finishing series 2, it’s pretty crap in comparison.

The first few episodes of Sherlock where great, clever, funny. It then got really weird and was being quirky for the sake of being quirky, I gave up.

Doctor Who should have been put to bed years ago. The latest series was awful, even my lifelong Dr Who fan partner who has seen literally every episode ever gave up.

Also shows like Strictly, Dancing on Ice etc. All really overdone now, each series is pretty much the same as the last, a few ‘controversies’, very similar progression of the contestants, too much fawning over each other and faux drama.. just really boring.

Silent Witness. Ridiculous convoluted storylines with the pathologists doing all the detective work. The rot set in in about series 12 I think, so I stopped watching.

Game of Thrones should have finished earlier.
Walking Dead
S.H.I.E.L.D.
Outlander just seems to be going through the motions of following the books.
Save Me should have stopped at the first series.
Making a Murderer.

However, I think Agent Carter could have gone to a third series before finishing.

Oh I was coming on to say Grey’s Anatomy and see you’ve beaten me to it in the OP. It’s been dire for the last few seasons.

Suits

IMHO Greys was never all that. Poor mans ER for the next generation.
Saying that ER lost its way around season 14, it probs should've stopped about season 10/12

Agree with AHS, killing eve too

I wish Schitts Creek had gone on and on though

Once upon a time should have stopped at season 6
Power should have stopped at season 5
Orange is the new black went on 2 seasons too long
Good Girls should stop
Agree with Greys Anatomy

Supernatural. The current/last series is dreadful.

Call The Midwife. It was great when it followed the books but has just become a bit sanctimonious.

Suits - once Jessica, Rachel & Ross left. It went downhill.
Mad Men - watching it again atm. On season 6 and it's starting to drag.
Downton Abbey - that got a bit silly towards the end

I say it over and over again on this sort of thread. High school drama shows like Gossip Girl, The Oc, one tree hilll. Once they leave high school and head off to college. It all gets a bit of a farce.

Agree with Call the Midwife, haven’t watched it since the Christmas special in Africa. It was excellent when they followed the books, as pp said but should have ended when they’d used up the material from the books.

Not Going Out - I still watch it, more for nostalgic reasons really. They killed it when they got Lee & Lucy together and gave them three kids in the space of a year. IMO it would have been better (and funnier) to see them as newlyweds and how their relationship formed. Instead we got; Lee fancying Lucy for about 4/5 years, Lucy suddenly deciding she’s in love with Lee out of nowhere, a Christmas special with them getting married and then the next Christmas special where Lucy gives birth. The next series starts and they’ve been married 8 years and have three school-age kids. There is no affection or chemistry between them and it’s weird for the viewers as we never saw them as just them as a couple.

Totally agree about not going out, it was much better before they got together

Also agree with Not Going Out. It used to be must watch tv for me. But once they had kids and had this perfect family. Not so much

Walking Dead
Fear the Walking Dead

A bit different becaise I'm glad they sorted out Edith with a happy ending but Downton should have got M&M married in series 2 instead of farting around.

Any series comprised of more than 10 episodes needs to stop it.

@ChrissyPlummer you’re absolutely right about the Africa Call The Midwife special! It felt really wrong in a “white people fixing things” sort of way. Very patronising.

Call the Midwife. I loved it, but it's gone on too long. I also loved Downton but that also went on too long.

@shartsi agree about Once Upon a time. Season 7 just felt like a attempt to do the story again but with blander people. Adult Henry..nope couldnt warm to him.

One Tree Hill..could've ended lovely. Except they lost cast members and kept going with a really odd last season with the whole kidnapp drama blah

Vampire diaries.. again..