Which shows did you start out loving, but end up hating? For me, Buffy is the ultimate example. I so love the first three seasons, one of my favourite shows ever. The fourth season was already disappointing, but it just got worse and worse after that. It turned into something I would've avoided at all costs. I like to pretend the rest of the show simply doesn't exist.
shareGame of Thrones. They really butchered the final seasons.
shareYes, I'd say GOT would be at the top of the list..and there could be many others..But off the top of my head I'd say True Blood and Rescue Me went way down in quality and I stopped watching.
Ironically I loved and preferred the later seasons of BTVS...Maybe because I was already an adult when I watched them and I preferred the more adult themes...the villains...and Spike.
Well, I'm from 1982, so it's not like I couldn't relate to the adult themes. I just thought it was being more and more dark for the sake of being more and more dark. I LOVE early Spike, but later Spike not at all. And Dawn was just awful.
shareThis is why I very rarely watch TV shows. I don't like watching something and loving it and then forcing myself to sit through seasons after it becomes bad. I loved the first 3 seasons of True Blood. Season 4 was okay, but 5, 6 and 7 were completely awful. It was a chore to finish it. I gave up with The Walking Dead after season 4. It was the same thing over and over.
shareTrue Blood and Dexter had very good early seasons and then went off the rails for me
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Battlestar Galactica reboot
Good call on BSG but I loved that show much more than I hated it.
Yeap. Early seasons of Game of Thrones are bloody amazing. Last ones were a joke.
sharethe first ... let's say .... season and a half of bsg is one of the great runs of any tv show i've seen. it never reached that peak again, but i honestly liked all the seasons, and though it developed some elements i didn't always enjoy (spoilers - don't make one of your major characters a ghost would be my advice to the screenwriters), i think it remained an excellent show.
right up to the last 10 minutes, which are so silly it still makes me wince to this day.
my recommendation: watch the entire series, and turn it off with ten minutes left.
Orphan Black (2013-17)
The first season was really good and Tatiana Maslany was dazzling to watch as she played multiple characters. The second season was where it became apparent that the writers had run out of ideas. But that didn't stop them ploughing on for another three boring seasons. The last season was so bad they should have been stood up against a wall and shot.
Game of Thrones
Like most people I guess I loved Got for the look of it and for the characters more than for the story which was relentlessly awful let's face it. Good ole George dreaming up new ways to torture his characters and it just went on and on without relief. The final season was I think a deliberate insult to the viewers. I can't explain it in any other way.
its obviously meant to be something funny.
But it was obvious racism and sexism.
Buffy TVS went through a few changes as it went along. It started out as a comedy with a little drama thrown in. Then as it continued the comedy receded and the drama became more prominent. But by season six it had morphed into a full blown melodrama and then in season seven it crapped itself and collapsed into a stinking mess.
"Then as it continued the comedy receded and the drama became more prominent."
That is true, but at the same time I thought the humour became sillier whereas before it was truly witty.
I've already said in another comment, but the problem with Buffy was called Marti Norton. She became the showrunner in season 6, after Whedon left.
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