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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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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Walking Dead for sure. I couldn't make it through the second season.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Also Fear The Walking Dead. I actually really liked that show for the first 3 seasons or however many it was until they changed showrunners. After that it really became a slog and I didn't finish it.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yup, what can you really do with a zombie apocalypse though, it's not the best setting to try and drag on. Just like 10 episodes would have been enough.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

If someone made World War Z (the book, not the movie) into an anthology series, I could see it going on for a few seasons.

[–] Firenz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It wouldn’t have hurt if they stuck to the comic book version of events. It was only TWD in name after season one. Sure they added characters from the comic but the story was so off base by that point that I really didn’t care.

It’s so difficult for me to watch the show having read the comics.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think it kind of doesn't fit too well into the long TV format because you have to have a sort of base-under-siege type of story (like all the Romero movies), a kind of survival road-trip or a globe spanning thing like World War Z (the book I mean lol). Changing locations constantly is pretty expensive for TV, and having a base under siege for 8+ seasons is boring, so you always end up with this thing where the group finds a shelter, stays there for the whole season, then it all blows up and they move onto the next one. Which you could probably get away with for a bit but over 12 seasons like Walking Dead is definitely starts to drag.

[–] Strider3200@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Scrolled way to far to find this.

I kept on for way too many seasons as I knew people in production and would periodically be asked about the most recent episode. Once it became apparent Norman Redus was the single life line to a viewing audience that thing trailed on like the zombies they were supposed to be killing.