For me, it was when Kimberly blew up the apartment building and then we were supposed to feel sorry for her. I love Marcia Cross, but Kimberly was a nut case who deserved to go to prison.
I quit watching for good when they killed off Sidney, who was my favorite character
When pretty much all of the original characters were gone, and it was like watching a new show that I had no interest in.
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I felt the 5th season was a long sad demise of my guilty pleasure.... One by one so many of the elements that gave the show the right chemistry left. Sixth season was just too much of a change too fast (although I did get into the 7th season season and it's return to the MP roots of a smaller cast with more interaction between all of them. Another plus is having fun, sultry Lexi as a villain was a big improvement over Taylor, IMO.)
Focusing so heavily on Bobby Parezi and his mind-numbingly boring business storyline was a fatal mistake. The fourth season was fun but you could see the wheels beginning to fall off, though Kimberly, Sydney and Michael always gave great performances. My memory is that the fifth season is where the show just completely fell apart. Kimberly became isolated and trapped in a tedious health storyline with only Megan and Michael for company, Alison and Jake were paired together despite a total lack of chemistry, etc. It just wasn't any fun.
shareTotally agree re Bobby Parezi. I'm in season four right now and that storyline is way too long and drawn out and dull. The whole idea of Amanda supposedly being in hiding from the Parezi family is ridiculous, but I could accept that if it led to a great storyline. Instead, we are subjected to Bobby and his lawyer and talk about a cable company for way too many episodes.
shareI can't watch the show after that either, it all became just too ridiculous. It probably would've been a better series finale if it had ended there with everybody blown up.
shareMany say it started to go downhill in Season 4. For me officially, it was probably almost mid Season 5.
I didn't mind storylines like Jane and Sydney "killing and burying" Richard. Probably because it was nice to see those two work together and it was ridiculous but kind of funny.
But stuff like Taylor's obsession with Peter and the weak way Amanda and Peter broke up really brought the season down big time.
I agree with the masses on season 4 being the season where everything fell apart.
Seasons 5 and 6 were even worse but I do think with season 7 being the last season of the show that they were at least trying to salvage what was left of it in the hope that it would it go out with a bang but sadly the damage had already been done.
the moment richard's hand popped out of the dirt I was done.
White lightening+Black Hammer
For me, it was fun until the very end.
I enjoyed the entire run
The last season was like pulling teeth. I watched it but it wasn't as enjoyable from the early years. Once Rhonda and the blonde left. The show got more exciting. Once Jennifer and Sam Megan came on. I stilled watched cause there were some regulars left. But yeah
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I thought the last season was an injection of life compared to the ABSOLUTELY dire season six.
in its original run i believe i stopped watching regularly somewhere in early season 6. i remember still catching an episode here and there, including the series finale (in which i had no idea what was going on and who were most of the characters).
years later i watched all the way through the end in reruns, i was curious what i missed. it was still moderately a fun guilty pleasure but more and more characters departed and replaced by mostly uninteresting new ones, and the one character that stayed for the entire run (Michael) became increasingly cartoonish. and i absolutely HATED the Matt postmortem journal storyline.
In all honesty - mid-season four. The first half is pretty enjoyable, except, you know, for all characters being alive after a big explosion, but Darren Star leaving the ship it just started to lose that snappy writing. Characters just got plain annoying, storylines dragged and then they went all-out camp at the end of the season with the "Betsy"-storyline.
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