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I don’t own a TV so I usually will catch up with Netflix if someone really recommends the show.
Rescue Me: it seemed OK for the first three and half seasons, but then just fell apart. The series can’t even follow a story line. Example: Tommy’s plopping down a years rent on a dumpy apartment and a few episodes later he’s moving into Lou’s even dumpier apartment and the dog is gone. I stopped watching two episodes into the fourth.
Weeds: It was interesting and funny for the first three seasons, but then it just went to crap. The storyline became too outrageous and stupid and yet again I stopped watching.
Most cleverly conceived shows (there are so few) suffer from the same problem you describe. Usually by the second or third season, the catchy show pretense simply runs out of new ideas... It seems to be much worse on network TV than it is on HBO or the like. The network TV writers all seem to be pretty bad and the "message" in every show is similar.
I don't know how people can watch them personally.
Have to say that I was so excited this fall with all the new shoes and every one of them pooped out for me. The only one still standing is Homeland and I can NOT wait for October to roll around. Yeah, TV is going downhill fast. If something does manage to be halfway decent you have to watch a half an hour of commercials and the really sad part is you watch the commercials just to find out the show is terrible. Oh well..
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I don’t own a TV so I usually will catch up with Netflix if someone really recommends the show.
Rescue Me: it seemed OK for the first three and half seasons, but then just fell apart. The series can’t even follow a story line. Example: Tommy’s plopping down a years rent on a dumpy apartment and a few episodes later he’s moving into Lou’s even dumpier apartment and the dog is gone. I stopped watching two episodes into the fourth.
Weeds: It was interesting and funny for the first three seasons, but then it just went to crap. The storyline became too outrageous and stupid and yet again I stopped watching.
The Office is currently falling apart as we speak.
One that I just loved was from many years ago. It was called "American Gothic." It was actually written and directed by Shaun Cassidy. It took place in a small southern town where the Sheriff was the devil. The good was in a young boy and his dead sister guided him. Problem was, the evil Sheriff was the boy's father. He had raped his mother years before.
My best friend and I would not miss it. It lasted maybe 3 seasons. First season was wonderful. Second was pretty good but, you could see it unraveling. Third season, nothing made any sense anymore.
My friend bought me the entire series on DVD and we sat down over the course of a few days to watch all of them. We ended wondering what we had ever seen in it other than that first really good season.
Falcon Crest, the 1980s nighttime soap, started off really well. It was smart, funny, had a wonderful cast, and (mostly) great plots. But after about season five, things started being "tinkered with". Then they got "re-tooled". By season seven, the show was a shell of its former self, and the producers were basically overhauling the show every season, firing and hiring new actors and writers and switching storylines as if trying on clothes at JC Penney's. The final season (nine) is utterly unwatchable.
One that I just loved was from many years ago. It was called "American Gothic." It was actually written and directed by Shaun Cassidy. It took place in a small southern town where the Sheriff was the devil. The good was in a young boy and his dead sister guided him. Problem was, the evil Sheriff was the boy's father. He had raped his mother years before.
My best friend and I would not miss it. It lasted maybe 3 seasons. First season was wonderful. Second was pretty good but, you could see it unraveling. Third season, nothing made any sense anymore.
My friend bought me the entire series on DVD and we sat down over the course of a few days to watch all of them. We ended wondering what we had ever seen in it other than that first really good season.
Anyone else remember this one?
Yes! Love American Gothic! But you're right, it just went south.
Remember... "someone's at the door". Whooo, creepy.
Who was that weird blond who was Ellen Degeneres' girlfriend? She got nutty in someone's yard... Can't remember her name but she had that show in "Alaska" and then left her husband, in real life, for the male lead.
Dirty Sexy Money. It physically hurt to watch any episode after season 1.
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