Worst television show you watched to the bitter 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

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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

did anybody ever watch the US version of Life on Mars?

keep wondering how pissed off the average viewer was at the final reveal

I gave up on Vikings a couple of years back, Hitler would have loved the consistently very hot cast!

have a feeling Stranger Things might show up in this thread a bunch next year

Vikings seemed like Svens of Anarchy to me

the first season of Norsemen > Last Kingdom >>>>>>> Vikings AFAICT

Alf

did anybody ever watch the US version of Life on Mars?

keep wondering how pissed off the average viewer was at the final reveal

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I did and yes that would probably be my nomination for this thread

I gave up on Vikings at its logical endpoint - Ragnar's death. Everything revolving around his asshole sons, I could care less about.

isn't Vikings still going?

yeah the sons of Ragnar were all quite tedious to start with. I don't doubt they just got worse to the death!

xp

Odin knows!

nah there was some cool stuff later on, Floki accidentally led a colony to Greenland instead of Iceland and there's good early UK history political drama iirc, it's been a while

Vikings seemed like Svens of Anarchy to me

IRLLOL!

oh i remembered one that’s much worse than pretty little liars

fucking glee

yeah i avoided that one :D

my roommate was into it and i was like “whatever” but it was truly the worst

being a theater dude, I had to suffer through everybody I knew talking a bout it. that and Smash

Vikings was great until Ragnar died & then that shit nosedived directly into the ground - i never caught up bc every time i tried i was like oh hey turns out I DONT CARE

American Horror Story has been that vibe for me every season without fail, I dont why I keep trying to watch it. I think Season 1, and Hotel are maybe the only ones I could hang with.
Usually it:
episode 1-2: I think I could maybe get w this?
episode 3: flames & smoke pull the chute peace out NOPE

Im really good at never going back once a shows writer's reveal their lack of preparation for having gotten *this far*, or once a show turns into x-of-the-week, end result being i never actually watch complete runs of anything because no shows has avoided this in history afaict

Struggled through a couple where i was convinced it would be worth it and didnt regret it, but couldn't in conscience offer them for this list. Sopranos, Friday night lights,twin peaks, which were all worth the odd trough (or whose troughs had their charms)

Shows im glad where i stopped when i did, consider them 'complete' wire after season 4, deadwood (not the movie, does this count?), Boardwalk empire end season 2

Notable "shouldve stopped sooner": breaking bad, cant recall exactly but think jesse was in buddhist rehab or some shit after wednesday adams had kicked the bucket. Show was nonsense.

NONSENSE I SAY

Unsure if comedy shows can be considered here rly, few enough attempt ongoing plot developments, few that i wouldve watched

But boosh/conchords could be added to "completed, didnt regret" if so

Deadwood was awesome to its end, I wish it had continued

I’m in season 5 of 6 with The Americans, I’m still interested and am hopeful it will have a good ending