What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?
What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did?
Too many "what got cancelled too soon" questions, what's a show that went on too long?
Hard mode: no The Walking Dead
I'm sure most people here would agree that cancelling Game of Thrones once they ran out of source material and waiting for the books to be done (lol) would have been preferable to what we got.
GoT would have exited the cultural zeitgeist a lot sooner than it did, probably to the detriment of future viewer engagement and thus a source of revenue for HBO, which is why they pushed it forward, but still...
Simpsons. Hasn’t been great since Season 12. Maybe glimpses in a few later seasons. But it’s now running on 35 years. Most of the original voices have left as have long gone all the good writers. The remaining can’t voice characters outside their ethnicity. And the show. Just “fart jokes.”
Probably the most brilliant show for a dozen seasons. Now just a husk.
Once Upon a Time. They felt like they had to just introduce a new Disney character at every turn and that they all had to be somehow related to one of the other characters. They also had a chance to tie things off by having Regina fall in love but nope, had to drop an A-Bomb on that possibility. Can't have a happy Evil Queen can we?
Scrubs: one of the best medical shows ever made. The last season was just a waste of everyone's time.
Frasier: After Niles and Daphney got together the writers were stalling the inevitable end.
The Son: Two seasons was two too many. Who TF thought it was a good idea to have Pierce Brosnan play a Texan?
As a Futurama fan...Futurama. The reboot is very mediocre at best, the show was great when it was a bunch of characters with wildly different personalities messing around in the year 3000. The first reboot was kinda less interesting but ok for the most part, I personally think the movies were pretty bad and the new season just wants to be South Park with 3-year old dated references. It had a good run, should've ended after season 4
Ended way too soon:
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Invader Zim (there were plans for 7 seasons, but Nick said it was "too expensive")
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Jimmy Neutron (again, f*ck you Nickelodeon)
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Inside Job
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The Misadventures of Flapjack (i mean, it's length was ok, but i'm salty about it's rushed ending).
Went on for too long:
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Stranger Things (looking back, only S1 was good)
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Rick & Morty (it was pure filler from S3 onwards)
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The Simpsons (should have ended with the movie)
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Spongebob Squarepants (also should have ended with it's 1st movie)
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The Fairly Oddparents (i share the common thought that the show ended in "Channel Surfers", but there were a few good episodes afterwards).
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Regular Show (mainly about Mordo's disasterous love life, everything else was fine, and the ending brought me manly tears :')
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The Simpsons
Honestly? Stargate SG1. One of my favorite shows.
The whole theme of the first seven or so seasons was teching up and gathering allies to say "you're not my real dad/god" to the evil sufficiently advanced aliens.
But then having reached the end of that arc and wanting to keep the show going, they introduced some even more godly evil aliens who weren't just sufficiently advanced but were actual magic. I felt it deflated the point made in the whole first arc, that there ain't nobody better then you, to then trot out some evil canonically supernatural entities.
The Office (US version). NBC should've put it out of its misery after Pam and Jim married if they had to hold on to airing it. But really it could've ended way earlier than that.
Amazon's The Rings of Power.
It should have been cancelled 8 episodes ago.
Stargate: SG-1 should have ended at season 8. They beat Anubis, all the conflicts were tied up, there's a nice scene where the crew is just relaxing at O'Neill's pond. And then they ordered another season. So they did the same thing that Xena did and said "Well we ran out of ancient dead religion gods, I guess Christianity is next except they still exist so we have to be kinda cagey about it" and just kept making the show.
The Simpsons
Scrubs should have been done with season 7, saying good bye to JD. no weird season 8 with new side stories that all sucked!!
Oh and Family guy... when Seth left the writing and production of the show and only did voicing, the shows quality changed .. it's funny, but its no where near as on the nose funny as season 1 through 10.. now when they break the fourth wall for a brake away joke, it just feels... off.. peter is not ironically funny anymore.. the meg jokes got stale and honestly cruel to where it was not Soo funny anymore.. Lois used to be a great loving mother, even to meg, then became just cold and unrelatable to me... Stewie was funnier as a world domination deviant before they completey changed his character around.., Brian used to be more relatable and then just got pretentious and misogynistic that really wasn't ironically funny anymore.. Chris is maybe the one character who has barely changed from the early seasons... idk it's just not that funny any more to me..
For me, Lost.
Writers introduced way too many mysteries that they didn't resolve. ABC should have given them less episodes so they were forced to tie up loose ends faster.
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.
Everything Shonda Rhymes does
Scrubs, the reboot they kept as the same name for whatever reason with the interns? So bad.
Arrested Development. The streaming seasons. Terrible.
Futurama. This new season is painfully bad.
Seems like almost anything that has a break for more than a couple years and reboots on a streaming service. It's never as good, and often terrible.
Roughly 95% of all shows.
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.
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.
Big Mouth. Season 4 redoes and then it just gets awful
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!
Every Jenji Kohan show.
Young Sheldon. There's nothing left they can do with the formula.
I think The Shield ended a season too late. If the seasons 6 and 7 were condensed into one with [spoilers ahead] the fallout of the Kavanaugh investigation and the money train, rather than stretching them across two different season, I think the ending would have a tighter pace and would really feel like the "walls are closing in." Plus the whole cartel subplot of the last season came out of nowhere
Edit: Riverdale too, but that should go without saying
Edit 2: House of Cards should've ended with Kevin Spacey leaving
Edit 3: True Detective
Casa de Papel. The first season is its own contained story and it was fantastic and ended perfectly. The subsequent seasons were okay, but you could really tell that the writers hadn't expected the show to continue after season 1, and everything kind of felt made up on the spot and not nearly as well constructed. I watched it because I love some of the actors/characters, but when I recommend it to people, I tell them to only watch the first season.
Servant. When your whole hook is "eerie and mysterious", you need to provide some payoff for the viewer at some point. After 4 seasons we got some really underwhelming payoff, and by that point the show had gotten so stale that Leanne was actually getting a significant amount of dialogue, so we also find out that that girl isn't a great actor. Thank god the production value was so high in other ways, because the narrative itself became very cheap.
Just finished watching Marcella and I was so bored by season 3.
Season 1 and 2 are pretty great whodunit mysteries with many twists and turns to keep you guessing. Some super dark stuff thrown in there too and got me emotional on a couple of occasions.
Season 3 feels like a terrible spinoff where not only is there no real mystery, you'll dislike all the characters, including the 2 main returning character. It feels like an 8 episode single episode. You could probably watch the first and last episode and not really miss anything.
Wayward Pines
Big Little Lies
Muhammad Hassan
Firefly!!
Fox execs are retarded and should be publicly shamed at every occasion for that blunder.
Permanently Deleted
Stargate Universes, The Knick, Blood and Bone
Fuller House
Julie Kavner's 73 and I don't think Marge is exactly the easiest voice in the world to do anyway; eventually a bunch of them are going to either die or retire (Shearer is almost 80) and that'll force an ending, however eager Disney may be to keep the reanimated corpse of the show going on indefinitely.
They’re still going, but The Simpsons and Family Guy should have been canceled years ago
The Leftovers. The pilot and 1st season were fantastic. The world building, characters, and story all had feeling and potential. Come the 2nd season everything felt flat, small and derivative.
The Office (US version) went downhill in seasons 8 and 9 without Steve Carrell. But the ending of the show was satisfying. They brought back Steve for that.
Ended to soon:
- Terminator Sara Corner chronicles - they left it off on a cliffhanger.
- Firefly - the movie did wrap the show up.
- Next - left it off on a cliffhanger.
BBC’s HUMANS. Story should have wrapped up faster
what an absolute train wreck of a final season that was canceled
Breaking Bad, maybe. I often wonder if it should have just ended at the original ending after he blows up Gus and tells Skyler it’s over and he won. It was a good point to break it off with a happy ending. Yet, if it didn’t keep going we’d have never seen just how cold and heartless Walter had become, like with his final words to Jessie. I personally kind of like both endings so idk how to feel.
Going off the reboot, futurama