> Dr. Pulaski in season 2 of ST:TNG
who also appeared twice in ST:TOS (as different characters each time)
― koogs, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
True Blood, although I skipped an entire season somewhere in the middle and didn't miss anything.
I reached a stage of watching True Blood by sitting on the sofa, knitting or looking at my phone, and only looking up at the screen if someone I liked (Eric) appeared. A terrible series.
Why doesn't anyone pay off an audience that sticks with their show to the bitter end the way The Colbys did? I guess because things never disappear now.
― trishyb, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:32 (three years ago) link
"Duchovny and Anderson both said they're done with X-Files after S11."
Also seasons 7, 8 and 9, is what I'm saying.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, January 17, 2021 3:15 AM (two hours ago)
If Anderson said she was done after any of those, she must have forgotten to say it to anyone else. (And I can't see a Doggett and Reyes series going down better in 2024 than it did in 2002.)
I still have never made it all the way through season 7, after watching the series at least three times up to that point. I swear I'll do it someday. (NB, I did watch the two reboot seasons, so I at least experienced that particular bitter end.)
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Sunday, January 17, 2021 12:17 AM (five hours ago)
Soft recommend for S07e08, with Ricky Jay in it. Hard recommend for e12, X-Cops, which is exactly what it says on the tin (by Vince Gilligan). e17 is not good but is written and directed by Gillian Anderson, if you're curious. e19 is fun, written/directed by Duchovny and basically a parody / deconstruction episode (that also pays off his Larry Sanders appearances). e21 is another Vince Gilligan solo ep, the last standalone "Mulder/Scully investigate a case" story in the original run, and a great place to stop watching.
(S08e04 is a Gilligan that focuses on Scully rather than Doggett, and is OK. There are five interesting-or-good S09 eps, if you want recs, and three great eps out of the 16 reboot ones, as you already know.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
S08e04 is a Gilligan that focuses on...
Looked at the end first and thought "Really? That lasted eight seasons? I thought they were only stuck there for a couple of seasons."
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
Quoting Wikipedia regarding X-Files series 9: "Likewise, Anderson signed on at the last minute, with her contract extension only lasting until the end of 2002; she specifically stated that she would leave the show following the conclusion of the season." The three references for this sentence are all non-web.
I'm not sure what your point is here - I'm not suggesting that it's likely, just that it's a plausible bad idea.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
Which one is the non-Morgan reboot episode worth watching? I finally watched/skimmed the Mein Kampfs last week and they are astonishingly mediocre.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
S11e07, "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" by Shannon Hanblin & Kristen Cloke.
(I didn't even skim the Carter episodes in S11.)
― shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
The season 8 episode Via Negativa is really good. S11E7 is a fun and worthwhile experiment though it’s not really an x-files episode.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
The O.C which is p bad all the way thru even though van pelt from the mentalist is in it as kiki's wayward sister.I probably wouldn't have stuck thru the last season of Dark if I hadn't been aware that it WAS the last season.also kinda always really enjoyed Castle but the final season was really hard going.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:58 (three years ago) link
i love the o.c.!!!! it is a properly ott soap opera that is imo pretty decently written until season 3. season 3 is the pits. season 4 is a gonzo version of the show and despite the horrible presence of chris brown it is kind of my favorite season
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
also it is a perfect time capsule of the era during which it aired
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
Six Feet Under. Not sure if I ever liked anyone on this show, but nevertheless invested countless hours of my brief existence in their neurotic whining.
― Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
I wonder how many people flipped on oc vs gilmore girls in retrospect.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Dexter for sure
― kinder, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
lol I can't believe watched Dexter right through to its useless flop of a finale. The penultimate season with Ray Stevenson playing an eastern European gangster with a terrible accent was bad as well, but sort of funny but the last season was pure tedium.
― calzino, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
Still ongoing, but Doctor Who (post 2005).
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:50 (three years ago) link
Xpost Who's gonna watch the ten ep limited series?
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
the absolute nadir of Six Feet Under was that Kurt Cobain's death flashback ep, lol that was so unbearable.
― calzino, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
xp
oh no, why have they done that? WHY!
― calzino, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
American Gothic
― octobeard, Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
I bought a bootleg DVD set a of Six Feet Under at my corner store so I had to keep watching because I had money in it. Good finale, though.
Streaming took away that investment angle so these days I won’t even remember to finish seasons and series I like.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
xpost how dare u
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
I watch lots of bad TV that's probably time better spent doing something else but the only show as of late that I hated myself for finishing is Ted Lasso
cannot tell you how bored I am of these shows about holding hands with everyone and hugging away our anxieties
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
I think Weeds was the last time I tortured myself like that. Never Again.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
First season of the OC was great! 3rd and 4th season were definitely pretty bad, though.
Agree with sic that the X-Files kept having good episodes even in the reboot, and I'm a pretty big fan of S7 as well. The mytharc had tanked by then but otherwise I think the main problem with S7 was just that it wasn't the last season of the show. It had an interesting winding-down energy to it that could have made for a satisfying ending if Chris Carter had been willing to wrap things up.
I deliberately quit watching Homicide, Life on the Street at the end of S5, and I'm happy about that decision.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
I would just like to go on the record saying that I thought the ending of BSG was Actually Good
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
xxxpost how dare you!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
I figured out that the Dexter writers didn't know what they were doing early on in season 2. Season 1 had such a perfect ending, making it clear that the show is a power fantasy, and then season 2 started with all the characters pondering whether the serial killer killer is good or evil -- ugh. I think I finished that season and then quit.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 17 January 2021 09:17 (three years ago) link
Regarding Doctor Who -- The Chibnall era (2018- ) is awful but I'll probably keep watching it for completion's sake. I made it through the Colin Baker seasons, I can make it through this.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 17 January 2021 09:26 (three years ago) link
I deliberately quit watching Homicide, Life on the Street at the end of S5, and I'm happy about that decision
Then you missed "Subway", which is probably the greatest H:LotS episode ever.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 17 January 2021 09:35 (three years ago) link
there's an incredible amount of really bad shows on netflix these days, but the umbrella academy is probably a recent one
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 17 January 2021 10:01 (three years ago) link
The first season is weighed down a bit by what it's adapting, but the second season is the best thing I watched last year.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 17 January 2021 10:10 (three years ago) link
I'm terrible for bailing on TV shows. It's the fatigue, maaan. Recently: abandoned Dark in S3, Hannibal early S3, Whitechapel S2 (one of the seasons of television I think I've ever seen), Staged early S2. I'm currently 8 episodes into American Horror Story S1 and am already considering the off. Eck.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 17 January 2021 10:25 (three years ago) link
I think I'd mostly moved on to other things by the ninth season of Rentaghost but probably caught the occasional episode and I do remember it ending. Nine. Seasons.
Definitely watched the original BSG until it was sadly, as I only learned once the www was invented, unceremoniously yoinked from the production schedule mid season.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 17 January 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
I only had a vague inkling that Galactica 1980 was "bad". They wee going around on futuristic motorbikes in those helemts with lights inside, what's to complain about?
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 17 January 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link
I loved Hannibal S3, although I get how it's not for everyone.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 17 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
And season 2 is one the better seasons! Really, I'd only recommend season 1 and maybe season 4
― Vinnie, Sunday, 17 January 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
In terms of wasted potential, I rarely saw anything go downhill as fast as Sleepy Hollow. Only morbid fascination kept me going till the end.
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 January 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link
i watched all of smallvillei’ve seen horrors you people wouldn’t believe
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 17 January 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
pretty little liars, which is mostly a real bore with some outrageously campy intervals
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:05 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
made it far, far, far, far further along this than I should have
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
think I made it 6 and a half of the 7 seasons, it definitely needed to end at the latest at the mid-S6 break
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
i watched all of smallville
lmao i didn't want to admit this but so did I. what's sad is that Alison Mack/Chloe was just about the only tolerable actor/character on it and then well, NXIVM happened...
other contenders: Dexter, LOST (it was good until season 5 though), Gossip Girl. Homeland somehow got better after season 3 and ended surprisingly well, but it was definitely mostly bad throughout.
― Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
Terrace House. Started out so great and the last few seasons were just absolute toxic dreck.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:30 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
:(
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
I didn't even realise how much so until the very end
Anyway my actual answer to this is kind of a weird one: Rex The Runt. Only two seasons. S1 was brilliant and a pinnacle of Aardman. Then a few years later they subbed out the entire writing team and did an S2 that was unendingly disappointing, and yet which I watched all of in the hope of something being recaptured. It hardly was.
Making A Murderer also a singularly abusive experience, albeit not badly-made
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
BSG is a good choice, getting stuck on that planet really killed the momentum of the show and took away all the cool spaceship dogfights that were the heart of the show.
No one will agree with me on this, but I hated the last season or two of The Sopranos so much that I've never wanted to revisit it. Sticking Tony in a coma for the better part of a season was also a terrible momentum killer.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
yeah it was great
late sopranos > early sopranos
― Left, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
i was dreading the moment someone mentioned gossip girl bc gossip girl is amazing
i think my defense of the o.c. upthread prob accounts for why i think that
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
The first few seasons of Gossip Girl were amazing! And then all the characters, including mf-ing Blair Waldorf, forgot how to scheme and then the whole Dan/Blair thing happened, and Nate kept dating horrible women, and Serena was just the WORST, aaannnd the final reveal was just... lol
― Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
i actually stopped watching the show when dan/blair happened the first time. i’ve gotten over it
anyway show is too good to qualify for this thread still imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link