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At what point do you stop watching?

posted 8 years ago by monkeyalien
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I'm binge-watching the entire series and I'm up to the beginning of the 9th season. I knew going into this that the 8th and 9th were gawd-awful. I'm saving the series in case I want to watch it again but deleting episodes that I don't care to watch, which is a few every season and pretty much all of 8 and 9. I don't want to just drop off at season 7 with no closure so I'm thinking about leaving the episode that introduces Kelly and the highlights of her being pregnant and having drew's kid.

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[–] blakgard 8 years ago

You can stop watching?! What the?!

[–] smerd_70 8 years ago

You should delete all the eps featuring the unrealistic office layout.

I collect dead pigeons then I press them between the pages of a book.

[–] monkeyalien 8 years ago

Are you referring to the internet company or when Winfred-Lauder was remodeled?

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[–] DButcher 8 years ago

I remember when they burned off the entire last season in six weeks over the summer. That was actually entertaining in a perverse sort of way.

[–] isbabo 8 years ago

I tell people to stop watching at the end of season 4. If you've made it to 9 you can watch anything. Just burn through them.

[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

I tend to stop when Drew and Kate got together as a couple.

You are sin.

[–] NikolajCostas1005 7 years ago

It began a downward spiral somewhere in Season 5 and started becoming pretty bad halfway through Season 6 when Drew became Mimi's baby. However, I still kinda try to wade through it because even the bad seasons still had funny episodes sprinkled throughout.

Eh I don't know what 'phallocentric' means, but NO GIRLS!

[–] R_Kane (15828) 3 years ago

Never watched anything he did. As Gertrude Stein said, “There’s no ‘there’ there.”

I remember the network’s tag line for this nonentity: “The breakout star you LOVED after the Super Bowl.” Dude, the Super Bowel (I’m not a football fan) ends at, like midnight moving into Monday, everyone who endured it is 3 sheets to the fucking wind, a lot of them owe a bookie serious scratch because they are stupid. They have NO IDEA what the fuck they watched after the Super Bowel. It could have been an appendectomy video for all they know. The network knows people are stupid. They run a promo telling them they LOVED this asshat. Voila! Instant manufactured and utterly hollow notoriety.

Yes. I sneer.

[–] Mustang (5230) 7 months ago

Maybe Season 4 or 5, back then I would have to rely on TV and in Australia they would chop and change TV shows a lot so I never watched the whole run or saw complete seasons.

[–] samoanjoes (50962) 7 months ago

It was good until the last two seasons.

[–] Mustang (5230) 7 months ago

Reading the summaries for the seasons I can see why the last two sucked. No one wants to see Drew "evolve" into fatherhood!

[–] samoanjoes (50962) 7 months ago

That wasn't even the issue. The entire tone changed. They added a fourth wall -- literally. They were showing walls to Drew's house that we have never seen in the previous seasons. There were so many weird angles and it felt like a different show. The humour dropped off considerably. It's like they kept getting renewed and just wrote anything instead of just ending it.

[–] Mustang (5230) 7 months ago

That doesn't sound good. People become familiar with the way a TV house looks and when things change even slightly it loses that familiarity that people crave. The show was always a bit crazy but had some purpose, sounds like they lost that towards the end which is common. Most shows shouldn't go for more than 5 seasons tops.