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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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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Family Guy

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[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The expanse (the novels). Time jumps in sci-fi are hard to do right. The show had the good sense to end it before the time jump, but they still had to put in admiral Duterte and MCR II (Laconia) in the final season with little to no follow-up because that was in the books

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[–] Triyfer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The X-Files. The direction they took after Robert Patrick joined just did not work and felt like a spinoff more than part of the main series.

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[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Roughly 95% of all shows.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lost

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

Riverdale. It had so many chances to end well, but it just got more and more ludicrous until they just had to reset everything for the last season.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Futurama should not have been rebooted.

I tried watching the new Hulu release. It's extremely forced and cringy.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It had a phenomenal last episode, but I think most people agree that M*A*S*H went on way too long. They really started running out of good, meaty concepts for shows around the time David Ogden Stiers (nothing against him, I like him) joined the cast.

[–] theRealBassist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I love Bones to death, but they really should have stopped it earlier.

Supernatural seasons 2-7 are pretty great, but it just tanks during season 8 IIRC.

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[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 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.

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

It was almost impressive how they managed to fuck up the ending that badly, revive it for a mini-series, get this close to turning it around and then fuck the ending again lol.

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

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

[–] 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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[–] 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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[–] 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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