House went on too long
The Simpsons
Thought of another one: Suits
Stranger Things :( The first season was absolutely perfect. The plot is all over the place and those kids are grown adults now lol let it die
Sadly I agree. If the seasons were shot closer together it would have been a better situation.
The first season is amazing. I still enjoy the rest of the series although the multi year gaps in filming isn’t helping things. Nine years to get to season five in a show that mainly stars school age actors is unfortunate.
Final season is scheduled for this year so the end is close.
I’ve been rewatching it because I finally caught up over the last couple weeks.
It’s so weird to go from the kids being tiny actual children, to damn near 6’ tall grown-ass men with deep voices and they’re still trying to be like 15 years old.
That said it’s still pretty good, but I’m mostly interested in the paranormal/sci-fi stuff at this point. Also Argyle in season 4 is absolutely hilarious.
The last season (4?) was pretty good.
This show still goes on? LOL
X-files, the John Doggett era just didn’t land for me, and even some of the later Mulder/Scully era got tired of
Definitely X-Files. Then they tried to bring it back and it was somehow even worse.
Rick and Morty and Stranger Things for sure, especially as these had their absolute hype eras
The Simpsons
I’ll pick the low hanging fruit and say Game of Thrones, because it was great right up until it wasn’t.
It was bad towards the end, but I don’t think it was because it went on too long. I think it was because they ran out of original material and had to start making it up on the fly. And then the show runners wanted to leave to go do a Star Wars show that ended up not happening anyway, so they rushed the ending.
When the White Walkers finally arrived, the big battle was over in a blip. That doesn’t sound like it went on too long, that sounds like we were a cheated out of an entire season of something potentially interesting.
Of course you’re right. I just wish we lived on a world where it stopped sooner and we could enjoy rewatching it, even if it was incomplete - like Firefly. The way it ended, I’ll never watch the show again and that sucks.
When Game Of Thrones went downhill at the 5th or 6th season i though: no matter how bad it gets, i will always have these 4 great seasons to get back to. I never went back and i have absolutely no desire to do so. They really burned it all down and salted the earth for me.
I’ll still watch some of the greatest scenes from time to time, as they are masterful. But a rewatch is too much given I know so many potential plotlines were just tossed out. I just watched a video where they counted how many loose ends exist, and I had no clue there were so many all over the place.
It’s a darn shame that Scrubs ended on season 8, but on the other hand imagine what a disaster a 9th season could have been…
LOST. Definitely lost its way after a few seasons. Fuck the going back and forth, stay on the pissing Island.
I think I read somewhere that the folks pitching the show originally had fewer seasons in mind, but once it became a success, the network demanded more seasons.
You can just copy and paste this comment to every reply. You’ll be hitting at least 90% accuracy I think.
Thinking this post and its comments over, I’m glad Mr. Robot had four seasons.
Bonsoir, Elliot.
The pathetic manga section at my local library in my hometown of the rural United States had volumes of Dragon Ball going up only until the end of the Frieza saga.
Since in the late '90s and early 2000s I had no reasonable way to get the rest of them (since internet had not yet come to that little village), I considered that to be the end of the series.
Now that I know everything that comes after, I maintain that the end of the Namek story arc is a sensible and satisfying endpoint for the series, and everything after that seems like it’s being drawn on for far too long and is unnecessary.
Same goes for Naruto up until the end of the Chuunin tournament arc.
Californication, Weeds, orange is the new black, the walking dead is the ultimate answer for me.
The worst part of The Walking Dead was when they split the Negan stuff into 2 seasons. Every other episode was filler and the whole thing crept along for two years. And it was after the show was already on for awhile and already kinda slow. It just killed any remaining interest.
I’m glad I stuck it out cause the rest was pretty good. But also if you include Fear, I think that was around the Negan seasons, that shit sucked. Too much bad content all at once.
Fear got better once Morgan showed up there but even in just that time span it went on a season or two longer than it should’ve
Man they repeatedly dropped the ball with Fear.
TWD I can actually rewatch (or at least I’m not repulsed by the idea) but they changed things up so many times in fear its like watching 5 different shows.
And I am still so very salty that what was supposed to be about the start of the apocalypse quickly jumped to post apocalypse.
Stranger things. Community. The office. Letterkenny. Rick and Morty… Actually i think most of them that reached the 4 season mark
Letterkenny
You take that back right now! If it wasn’t for Shoresy I’d be inconsolable
Edit: The more I think about it, the more I think you are probably right. I just have a really hard time letting go
Almost every successful US TV show runs at least one season too long. Any time they lose key cast members, or decide to go on just because of success, the quality has dropped in my opinion.
Non-US that succumbed to the same was Coupling. Last season was horrible.
Supernatural. I know it supposedly gets better with the latter seasons, but I binged straight through and I burned out around season 11 or 12. The angel espionage shenanigans were weird. The whole good brother evil brother flip flop is a bit overplayed. Meant to pick it back up but never did.
Didn’t Kripke intend for that to end after season 5?
I’ve tried, think I made as 10.5, first 5 are legitimately excellent though.
Yes. He only wrote the first 5. He’s in the credits of the rest as an executive producer but I don’t know the extent of his involvement.
