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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The 2020 Dracula Netflix show.

The first episode is a fun reimagining of the original story. The second episode is a neat "reverse who-done-it"/bottle episode. The third episode should not exist. Full stop. "Dracula wakes up in modern times and it turns out his weaknesses are just PTSD and then he chooses to die out of honor or something."

Penny Dreadful

The second season ends on a fantastic melancholy vibe that matches the whole tone of the show. The third season wastes all character development to have extra drama.

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[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stranger Things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Season 3 and its fallout in S4 (Hopper in Russia) were pretty dire. Cut those and go deeper with the Satanic Panic plot from S4 instead. Maybe actually have a church leader involved, not just jocks and the PTA? Riff on the "spiritual warfare" literature of the period, Mike Warnke, Frank Peretti -- distant cultural ancestors of QAnon, by the way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heroes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mad Men. If it had ended with him standing on the top of the stairs saying "This is not the end!" it would have been perfect. Everything after that was weak wish fulfillment.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Every Jenji Kohan show.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The first half of the series was great, I literally almost choked from laughter a couple times. The show kept going but I thought the jokes weren't landing as much anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh definitely a hot take! Obviously there are outstanding episodes in the newer seasons, but you also can't say it hasn't changed alot.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably controversial, but the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation was pretty bad - 2 good episodes (and the finale, though people tend to ignore its flaws because the last scene was so satisfying), but the rest of it was mostly Season-1-level filler.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chuck. It was on air at the same time as Better Off Ted, which was a fantastic show. IIRC, two seasons into Better Off Ted, the network had to choose between the two shows, and they chose to keep Chuck running. We were robbed.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Game of Thrones

How I Met Your Mother

Tokyo Ghoul

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Friends.

Lost.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about the friends later seasons, hooking up Joey and Rachel, wtf was that about?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was about money. Nothing else.

All I can think is that they were running out of couples, and the execs wanted to keep their cash cow alive for as long as possible. So, they ordered the writers to make it work somehow.

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