TV series where only some seasons are worth watching (show, episodes, friends)
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I'm bingewatching seasons 2-5 of Homefront, and halfway through season 5, it feels as if it should have ended in season 4. It's no longer working for me that Carrie continues to live this life. And they've already signed contracts through season 8. Did any of you start and then get sick of Homefront?
There are shows like that, where it no longer works as well for me, but it is usually because they go from being single to being married and starting families, such as with Charmed (which should have ended when Daryl was written out of the series). SIGH, such is the nature of TV, it often follows "the natural course of life".
As much as I love Grimm, my favorite current series, last season wasn't up to snuff. Still enjoyed it and wont say it 'jumped the shark', but if they have another season like that I think they might be finished. Hopefully the script writing will be better for the upcoming season. There have been very few series I've looked forward to each week as much as this one. It's get your popcorn ready type of entertainment, not that I eat popcorn but you get the drift.
Others have mentioned series that were good every season, Prison Break was that way for me. Just really solid all the way through.
Highlander: The Series lost its way in season five. Five onwards seemed to get progressively worse.
Dynasty was quite good in seasons 1-3, then fell apart, only to have a really good final season (9).
Falcon Crest was similarly good in seasons 1-3, dropped off a lot, and then fell off a cliff into unwatchable in its final season (9).
As mentioned above, Doctor Who became un-necessarily complex and gimmicky in the Matt Smith years (six/seven?), and got marginally better in this past season--but not nearly as fun and addictive as it was in the first five seasons of this reboot.
Designing Women lost its mojo in seasons five, six, and seven when Delta Burke was marginalized and eventually dismissed from the show. Without her, the other ladies just became shrill, overbearing, and humor-less.
Sliders - I'd agree mostly.. The loss of the Professor was certainly the moment things went south.. But, it was still "Ok" until the horrendous Season 5.
Doctor Who - I agree with the Matt Smith years being bad years.. I wasn't a fan. I actually like Capaldi better than Smith. But Tennant set the bar so high.. Nothing will live up to his portrayal.
Mork and Mindy was a show that went off the rails
Quantum Leap really went sideways in its final season.. Leaping into Oswald.. Tossing the "within his own lifetime" rule via gimmicks to send him back to the Civil war..
........Mork and Mindy was a show that went off the rails
Quantum Leap really went sideways in its final season.. Leaping into Oswald.. Tossing the "within his own lifetime" rule via gimmicks to send him back to the Civil war..
According to this Galactica 1980
the Mork & Mindy ratings caused "Galactica 1980". I guess for by then, I was in college and watching TV became very difficult indeed, so I don't think I saw beyond the 1st season.
I really didn't come across Quantum Leap till its final season and that's when it hooked me (maybe it was because of the line up NBC had with "Reasonable Doubts")................ and when I started getting turned off, though it took about 1.5 decades for that, from TV. They had me hooked on their Tuesday line up and then for final episode, they switched it to another day without warning and I missed it.
Looking at the other seasons, I found them incredibly boring and I wasn't hooked ALTHOUGH that was watching in syndication on Sci Fi Channel. I have learned now that things in syndication are often cut up so much as only to basically tell the story with all the tension building segments removed.........
.....................so perhaps it is time to give "QL" another glance.
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