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What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did? (lemmy.world)

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Too many "what got cancelled too soon" questions, what's a show that went on too long?

Hard mode: no The Walking Dead

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The 2020 Dracula Netflix show.

The first episode is a fun reimagining of the original story. The second episode is a neat "reverse who-done-it"/bottle episode. The third episode should not exist. Full stop. "Dracula wakes up in modern times and it turns out his weaknesses are just PTSD and then he chooses to die out of honor or something."

Penny Dreadful

The second season ends on a fantastic melancholy vibe that matches the whole tone of the show. The third season wastes all character development to have extra drama.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Person of Interest

First two seasons were phenomenal. From that point forward it was a battle royal between the writing team, with each one trying to push their personal perspective on the series to the point it was like watching three different series mashed together.

Spartacus

The lead actor died at the end of season one. That is it. Pack it up and go home.

Prison Break

You had one good season. It was the concept. The moment the actual break is done, there is nothing to go on.

That's enough for now.

Grey's Anatomy

Because just how long can that thing go on for?

Law and Order

Any of its iterations. Same as above.

House M.D.

Good show until you start to put in and take out characters just to maintain the pulse of the thing.

Now I'm done!

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stranger Things.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Season 3 and its fallout in S4 (Hopper in Russia) were pretty dire. Cut those and go deeper with the Satanic Panic plot from S4 instead. Maybe actually have a church leader involved, not just jocks and the PTA? Riff on the "spiritual warfare" literature of the period, Mike Warnke, Frank Peretti -- distant cultural ancestors of QAnon, by the way.

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

American Gods. I mean, still better would have been to just do it as good as the first season

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[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Dexter. Just leave it at the end of season 6, on the giant 'what the fuck' moment. Leave it there with all the potential and possibilities and open questions for people to wonder about.

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[–] Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orphan black - first season was amazing, it was an amazing concept. It was pretty clear the writers didn't know wtf to do once they got a season 2+ and they choked imho

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[–] Kahlenar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Big Mouth. Season 4 redoes and then it just gets awful

[–] MisterBigFart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Every Jenji Kohan show.

[–] VogonFrost@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heroes

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[–] JE2SJWMKLS@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mad Men. If it had ended with him standing on the top of the stairs saying "This is not the end!" it would have been perfect. Everything after that was weak wish fulfillment.

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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chuck. It was on air at the same time as Better Off Ted, which was a fantastic show. IIRC, two seasons into Better Off Ted, the network had to choose between the two shows, and they chose to keep Chuck running. We were robbed.

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[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably controversial, but the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation was pretty bad - 2 good episodes (and the finale, though people tend to ignore its flaws because the last scene was so satisfying), but the rest of it was mostly Season-1-level filler.

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[–] Severed_Fate@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Game of Thrones

How I Met Your Mother

Tokyo Ghoul

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[–] lhx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Arrested Development. The Simpsons. Scandal. Scrubs. Friends.

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