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Letterkenny. It started having way more drama and lost its charm for me.
The new Doctor Who. I'll get hate for this, but it jumped the shark when living, breathing, deus ex machina River Song showed up with the eleventh Doctor, I was done.
Two and a Half Men should have ended with Sheen's exit.
12 Monkeys for sure. I loved it at first, but after a while it just seemed to be basically the same thing over and over. I also got sick of all the fighting and shootouts. It became a real slog towards the end.
Newsradio was great for 3 seasons. 4th was ok then Phil Hartman was killed and that sealed it.
Well it's probably due more to the writers strike than length, I'd say Dexter.
Thinking this post and its comments over, I'm glad Mr. Robot had four seasons.
Bonsoir, Elliot.
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...
The Simpsons
The Office (US) could have ended when Jim proposed in the rain. It maybe should have ended at the wedding in Niagara. Dear god it definitely should have ended when Michael left. The rest was just a shambling husk with nothing to say and tired gags.
Parks and Recreation also flanderized everybody (on a show that didn’t have much room to spare with how delightfully silly everyone already was as of season 3) and brought on new blood that didn’t work. I still haven’t seen most of the final season.
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Star Trek. No more iterations, ever. No more Klingons, Vulcans, Borg, Ferengi, Trills, or Romulans.
Go back to the original concept and do completely new shows with none of the current canon/mythology.
No more six foot tall, five fingered aliens with funny chins.
Wait, what if the chins were Rick and Morty testicle chins?
(Fuck me Gboard, what is so goddamn hard about spelling ~~China~~ chins. Fuck!)
Shameless, American
Weeds
Sopranos
Killing Eve
I never watched sopranos. I was living kinda wild back then. I just started the pilot today.
It's in my top 5. It's epic. But a redo would be 5 seasons....
The Simpsons
Thought of another one: Suits
Weeds. It's been so long since I watched it but I remember it reached a point where it should have ended but instead it became unwatchable.
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.
Californication, Weeds, orange is the new black, the walking dead is the ultimate answer for me.
Orange is the new black just became awful
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.
Peaky Blinders. And if that wasn't enough, they're making a movie too. Don't get me wrong, it's a great show. But you can only up the stakes so much until it becomes too grand for its own good.
Severance, if they go over 3 seasons. The show is already a slow burn and holding on to a single mystery to move the plot forward. It doesn't make sense to make it go over 3 seasons with its current pace.
Shogun and Squid Game has/had no business getting a second season.
Off topic, but this is exactly how I feel about Welcome to Night Vale
In a lot of ways, Bleach. I loved it when it came out, but I've had no interest in re-watching it. The problem for me is that the fighting doesn't really show enough growth throughout the series, especially Ichigo. Everything is just to get a stronger Getsuga Tensho once he gets his bankai.
And I say this as someone who has re-watched Naruto more than once.
I'm sure there's more but I'm finding it hard to remember things I used to like but no longer do.
Boardwalk Empire and Sons of Anarchy.
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.
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.