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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jan 5, 2017 16:07:54 GMT -5
I'm going to include Prison Break in the mix. The last season felt the need to over complicate itself and had nothing to do with the premise of the show.
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Post by horseface on Jan 5, 2017 16:13:47 GMT -5
The Wire's 5th season was pretty bad. Maybe not as bad as some shows mentioned here, but relative to the first four seasons it was a very steep and abrupt drop that no one saw coming. After the fourth season where despite the "main" character of the series taking a bit of a break and the loss of some other key characters, seemed to keep its momentum going like nothing had happened. So the final season...it has to be great, right? Nope. The newsroom storyline fell completely flat, with no character in it being especially memorable or interesting. What a big letdown this season was. Again probably not as straight-out bad as some other things, but compared to what came before it its hard to fall further than this show did in its last season.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 19:51:29 GMT -5
The Wire's 5th season was pretty bad. Maybe not as bad as some shows mentioned here, but relative to the first four seasons it was a very steep and abrupt drop that no one saw coming. After the fourth season where despite the "main" character of the series taking a bit of a break and the loss of some other key characters, seemed to keep its momentum going like nothing had happened. So the final season...it has to be great, right? Nope. The newsroom storyline fell completely flat, with no character in it being especially memorable or interesting. What a big letdown this season was. Again probably not as straight-out bad as some other things, but compared to what came before it its hard to fall further than this show did in its last season. It was definitely the weakest of the series. The moment they started the whole {Spoiler}{Spoiler}McNulty faking a homeless serial killer was when it jumped the shark. But the show pretty much had the perfect ending for each character from Bubbles finding redemption, The Mayor becoming Governor when the going gets too tough, that one kid becomes the new Omar, the other kid becoming a junkie, Marlo stuck in purgatory on probation a fate worse than prison or death for him. Etc.
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Post by agent817 on Jan 5, 2017 20:57:19 GMT -5
Married...with Children. The tornado, Al and Peg get separated, Al joins the army, Al plays Robert Englund in football, etc. I agree, even though there were a few episodes from that season that I liked (Like the dodge's funeral, or even the one when Bud was sleeping with Al's boss). However, I never liked the hell episode and the two-parter when Al and Peg separate just seemed different. In regards to the tornado episode, I actually thought the scene when that woman's dress flew off in the mall was stupid. Yes, I am aware that part of the edginess of that show was the use of scantily-clad women in some episodes, and not that I complained either, but even that was really gratuitous.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 5, 2017 21:37:27 GMT -5
Married...with Children. The tornado, Al and Peg get separated, Al joins the army, Al plays Robert Englund in football, etc. I agree, even though there were a few episodes from that season that I liked (Like the dodge's funeral, or even the one when Bud was sleeping with Al's boss). However, I never liked the hell episode and the two-parter when Al and Peg separate just seemed different. In regards to the tornado episode, I actually thought the scene when that woman's dress flew off in the mall was stupid. Yes, I am aware that part of the edginess of that show was the use of scantily-clad women in some episodes, and not that I complained either, but even that was really gratuitous. It was a 3 part episode where they break up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 22:10:04 GMT -5
- I don't think anyone's mentioned The Drew Carey Show. ABC thought it would be a good idea to renew the show for 2 seasons and when they did, it immediately went to shit. Christa Miller left, Craig Ferguson left. Winfrid-Louder closed and turned into some bullshit online company. The show and its ratings got so bad ABC ended up burning it off in the summer. Didn't help that the cast got gutted & they build a whole season about Drew trying to remarry only to swerve. And they brought back Winfrid-Louder, except Drew got rewarded for all his hard labor by Mr. Wick deciding, "You know, I missed treating people like shit. I'm going to be the boss & you go back to being in that dead end HR position", which I think was the biggest EFF You they did. And they made that final season that experimental crap & they played everything out of order.
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Post by paulbearer on Jan 10, 2017 0:15:28 GMT -5
Batman season 3 is still worse than final MWC season imo :/
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 10, 2017 0:25:03 GMT -5
Phineas and Ferb. By the time it had ended it had really outstayed its welcome. They should have just ended it with the movie. Plus, they seemed to go overboard with experimental episodes, leading to stuff like Tri-Stone Area and that episode in the future where Phineas and Isabella get together (which felt like every PhineasxIsabella fanfic out there).
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Post by Ash Kingston on Jan 10, 2017 0:30:40 GMT -5
Honestly, the last season of House lost me about halfway through.
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Post by dav on Jan 10, 2017 2:13:06 GMT -5
What was so bad about Dexter's last series?
Seemed OK to me.
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Post by madness50 on Jan 10, 2017 2:23:57 GMT -5
Dallas. The storylines were boring, most of the principal cast was gone, their replacements a poor imitaion of those that came before and the greatest television villain of all time was redused to a bumbling fool. Just horrible all around. The show hit a wall with the whole dream season fiasco. The wheels came off when they wrote Pam off the show the following season and it all went downhill from there. I hated the last two seasons of the show and the only reason I continued watching was that JR, Bobby, and Cliff stuck around.
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jan 10, 2017 4:48:24 GMT -5
I'm not sure if the 6th season of Community counts, but it did kill an entire streaming platform. Not true, yahoo screen had other shows too, but they spent too much money on everything (technology, ads, shows) and had big losses
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jan 10, 2017 4:51:26 GMT -5
At least the 70's show last season was kinda inoffensive and just actively boring and bland
HIMYM's last season was atrocious (lamest jokes ever, horrible scripts) and mindnumbingly stupid/illogical
Roseanne's last season was historically bad as well. At 16 years of age I literally just scratched my head after the final episode and swore I'll never watch a single episode ever again
How about a best first season thread?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 10, 2017 8:13:09 GMT -5
At least the 70's show last season was kinda inoffensive and just actively boring and bland HIMYM's last season was atrocious (lamest jokes ever, horrible scripts) and mindnumbingly stupid/illogical Roseanne's last season was historically bad as well. At 16 years of age I literally just scratched my head after the final episode and swore I'll never watch a single episode ever again How about a best first season thread? There is one.
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Post by Shai on Jan 10, 2017 11:51:18 GMT -5
I just got around to finishing Dexter. Took me over a year because I went through a period where I had to stop watching that kind of stuff. That season pissed me off so bad I wished Id listened to my husband and not watched it.
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Post by Shai on Jan 10, 2017 11:57:26 GMT -5
Dexter obviously, Roseanne again and I'll throw True Blood in as well. The show was never a masterpiece or anything but at least the early seasons made sense and were entertaining. That last season was such a grind to get through. And as a side note, I had no issues with Lost, I enjoyed that last season. I couldn't even finish True Blood. It was always a guilty pleasure of mine but the last season was too much for me so I quit halfway through. I like to finish what I start even when things get bad in a show but I just couldn't do that with True Blood I liked the final season of lost and I honestly thought the finale was great. I agree with Dexter. A f***ing awful season with an even worse ending. Season 4 should have been the end. The True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries universe is a weird case both the author of the books and the showrunners pissed off the entire fanbase at one time. The show ended shitty and the books ended shitty. As in neither one did Sookie and Eric end up together which is what 90% of the fans wanted. There are whole websites of fanfiction dedicated to fix-its for both.
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Post by Cela on Jan 10, 2017 13:13:11 GMT -5
I'm not sure if the 6th season of Community counts, but it did kill an entire streaming platform. It was pretty bad compared to some of the previous seasons. Then again, maybe not bad, just meh. Adding a main character who basically only existed to be a killjoy was an odd choice.
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Post by Jazzman on Jan 10, 2017 13:46:07 GMT -5
I'm not sure if the 6th season of Community counts, but it did kill an entire streaming platform. It was pretty bad compared to some of the previous seasons. Then again, maybe not bad, just meh. Adding a main character who basically only existed to be a killjoy was an odd choice. Yeah, it isn't as bad as a lot of stuff mentioned in the thread, but it's impact on Yahoo Screen was another way to look at worst.
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Post by Big Bad Kahuna on Jan 10, 2017 14:04:36 GMT -5
It was pretty bad compared to some of the previous seasons. Then again, maybe not bad, just meh. Adding a main character who basically only existed to be a killjoy was an odd choice. Yeah, it isn't as bad as a lot of stuff mentioned in the thread, but it's impact on Yahoo Screen was another way to look at worst. You may want to revisit my post up there
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2017 14:11:30 GMT -5
At least the 70's show last season was kinda inoffensive and just actively boring and bland. It's.....oddly enjoyable. The rest of the cast pulled themselves together well without Eric ( the main character of the entire show) and with an early departure for Kelso (who stayed around for a few episodes, though Kutcher intended to leave with Topher Grace). Lord knows Hyde and Donna could've made things work pretty well if they had to carry the show alone; luckily they were surrounded with a very likeable cast of characters too. But man, that show went on too long, as evidenced by Grace leaving after a couple seasons of just spinning his wheels. It's also funny to me that the character (Josh Meyers) who replaces Eric doesn't even show up in the last episode (well, only in part 1 of the hour long finale). ....well, I take that back - Bret Harrison played a character introduced the season before that was meant to replace Eric, but when that didn't happen they *actually* killed him off in a flashback, before Josh Meyers was introduced. It's rare when a shows kills off a kid and it gets (MUCH) more of a laugh than a gasp. Thank goodness they knew the last ep had to end with 1980 beginning.
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