Worst television show you watched to the bitter end

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

I think Weeds was the last time I tortured myself like that. Never Again.

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.

I would just like to go on the record saying that I thought the ending of BSG was Actually Good

xxxpost how dare you!

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.

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.

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.

there's an incredible amount of really bad shows on netflix these days, but the umbrella academy is probably a recent one

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.

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.

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.

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?

I loved Hannibal S3, although I get how it's not for everyone.

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.

And season 2 is one the better seasons! Really, I'd only recommend season 1 and maybe season 4

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.

i watched all of smallville

i’ve seen horrors you people wouldn’t believe

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

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

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.

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

:(

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

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.

yeah it was great

late sopranos > early sopranos

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

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

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

lol just remembered I also watched all of The Vampire Diaries, another show that started out great and then petered out in later seasons

tbh i'm dreading the gossip girl reboot, that i will no doubt end up watching

Making A Murderer also a singularly abusive experience, albeit not badly-made

Didn't know there was a second season. Can someone summarise it in two or three sentences?

the gang does a law; they get nowhere

do you feel any closer to concluding that blokey (Brendan?) dunnit or nah

oh the brother theory? that kind of recedes throughout S2. just continues to be very obvious that the whole thing was a stitch-up and yet there is no catharsis or let-up

ohhhh wait, you mean the younger guy who had a false confession extorted on tape? yeah he gets freed from prison

that is the only good thing that happens

i watched all of smallville

Who will roll in and trump this with all of Supernatural?

I did watch this.

(Invasion 2005)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460651

Unshockingly it only ran a single season, although an ambivalent take on body snatchers isn't the worst premise.

i liked Invasion! corny but enjoyable. Bill Fichtner is great, i like him in pretty much anything.

also i realized i dont hang w a lot of terrible tv - if it’s actually bad then i bail.

Who will roll in and trump this with all of Supernatural?

I started watching Supernatural when I noticed it was on Netflix. I stopped after maybe four episodes, when I realized that a) it sucked and b) there were fifteen goddamn seasons, twenty-some episodes per season. That's more than 300 hours carved out of a finite human lifespan.

I watched both seasons of Revolution until it was cancelled. It was all built on the dodgy af plot foundation of: what happens if all the leccy stops working and loosely held electrons stop moving from one to atom to the other by the push of electromotive force ..lol!

Gossip girl was classic, and the ensuing fame of Blake Lively and not Leighton Meester is an eternal mystery

The first season is actually good-good, and the rest of the seasons are trashy-good but still good

Twin peaks

challop thread is thataway

bahahaha we are currently hate watching Supernatural but are def not gonna make it through 15 seasons

ohhhh wait, you mean the younger guy who had a false confession extorted on tape? yeah he gets freed from prison

― imago, Sunday, January 17, 2021 2:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Brendan Dassey is still in prison in Oshkosh, which I think is bullshit. I've probably mentioned this before but I know this family, when the whole case went down a lotta people in my community were shocked that they were pinning a life sentence on a guy who was coerced and clearly wasn't all there. it's still surreal to me.

the fact that ultimately nothing changed makes S2 a failure, too bogged down in obscure legal proceedings and I think there is kind of a desperation to spin not very significant developments into major breakthroughs. plus there's that fucked up mannequin scene. ultimately it feels a lot like the OJ case, the cops screwed up big time but they still almost certainly got the right guy

It has to be True Blood

that was so bad that most of us now pretend to have even ever had a vampire series.

*never*

i don't even own a vampire