Worst television show you watched to the bitter end

The Conners is actually pretty good!

didn't bother to watch the first-season of the Roseanne reboot with her bullshit Trumpism

I think I've watched almost every episode of Becker and I don't think I've liked a single one

lol I liked that show in my 20s buuuuuuuuuuut I doubt I would now.

pseudo-edgy "angry middle-aged guy" show

Love Monkey, buti t was only one season

It’s obviously not bad TV, but I was so sick of The Wire by the time I got to the end of it.

Weeds

Season 5 did ask us to accept a whole lot of non-believable shit from multiple characters

but I did enjoy it if not as much as the previous four seasons

so compared to the first season, why did Weeds suck? or do you all think it always sucked?

I've watched about 6 or 7 episodes and it's fun enough but nothing sucks me into it to where I will watch more than one or two at a time. plus I read about the Shane murder bit and....eesh.

first half at least was fine? i think i did read about roughly where it went bad and i should've listened. i had so much time once. Now I'm just here.

Terrace House. Started out so great and the last few seasons were just absolute toxic dreck.

the show was good but the last season of the magicians sucked a lot, unbelievably aimless

anybody finish Dexter? I stopped after S4 (which I liked, but S5 was not gripping me - then I read summaries of later seasons and...YIKES).

A lot of people say that about s5 of the wire, but not season 3 for some reason.

o fuck I forgot abt Lost but really it only took a nosedive in S6, albeit a brutal and unforgivable one

True Blood, although I skipped an entire season somewhere in the middle and didn't miss anything.

Buffy was a real slog by the end. I only watched a little of season 9 x-files but that was probably too much, and I tuned in for the finale and it was real dumb. Otherwise I don’t tend to stick with shows that have clearly lost it. Got to the end of s3 of BSG and figured it had been a pretty good show but it was becoming pointless.

But I guess Buffy isn’t a good answer given that it kept up a standard of quality for a long while.

Oh I definitely stuck with House M.D. until the end, idk if it got really bad per se but the final season I definitely only watched because I wanted to see how it ended

I can't remember if I made it to season two of Breaking Bad. It should have been a one-season show. Get in, tell your story, get out. Ninety percent of shows should be no more than 13 episodes.

Breaking Bad didn't even get to the end of the first season! Writers' strike hit about ep seven.

Last two seasons aren't as good as the first three, and Better Call Saul is way better, but it's a ludicrous thriller from the start, hard to hold it continuing to be ludicrous in the search for thrills against it.

not completely winging it with the writing while stringing people along pretending you have a coherent overarching narrative that will all make sense in the end would help (see also x files, many others)

X-Files was and remains dope as long as you just watch the standalone episodes by good writers, and avoid all the ones that have anything to do with the overarching alien conspiracy plots.

all the ones that have anything to do with

there are like two that mention that stuff a bit which are v good, but you can either ignore the mentions or skip those eps for safety. great show.

I am only partway into season 6 but if I survive through season 8 i can sat with confidence that LA Law will be the worst show I have watched to the bitter end

you guys dont even know

in season 5 corbin bernsen’s character Arnie was fucking his former secretary in the CRAWL SPACE and they fell through the ceiling into the boss’s office ~inflagrante delicto~

it’s truly the dumbest show i’ve ever seen

modern tv is fkn fassbinder by comparison

I have watched every single episode of Mulaney. I am the one person who has done that.

I like his standup. I love the one nutball skit he writes whenever he hosts SNL. And I love Martin Short. After the second or third awful episode of Mulaney, the utter lack of anything funny or even slightly appealing about it became a source of fascination to me, and I had to see it through to the end. I regret nothing, but I also wish the show never existed. It’s all a rich tapestry.

I liked Last Man On Earth, but Will Forte's character was so annoying that it was sometimes hard to watch.

And I watched Dexter to the end just for closure, but it wasn't that bad.

There's another category of shows, several of which have been mentioned itt (X-Files and Gilmore Girls particularly), that I love a lot and have rewatched huge swaths of several times over but which I never finished watching because I could see a bitter end in sight and I knew I just couldn't bear the pain. It's almost like I'm physically incapable of watching them self-mutilate (I rewatched both again somewhat recently with the intent of actually plowing through and I didn't get any further than I'd gotten before).

xp I was gonna say Dexter was easily the worst show I watched to completion but I actually skipped season 7

I don’t regret watching X-files to the end fwiw!

Doc Martin. The family liked it so we kept watching. Miserable annoying bastard.

where u get to in X-F OL

I'm usually pretty good with abandoning series that I don't like. I abandoned Picard and Discovery last year and I think I made the right call. I can think of two series that I regret watching all of:

Torchwood - two bad seasons followed by a pretty good 5-episode mini-series, followed by a very bad American season.

House - season 3 was tired, season 4 gave the show fresh life with more characters and more comedy; at the start of season 6 there was a two-parter about House being in rehab with Lin Manuel-Miranda that was the low point of the show. It never got good again although I watched all 8 seasons.

I think Lost was redeemable up until the last season. BSG reboot had its good moments until its last half-season too.

Discovery's third season was way better than the previous two, so I'm glad I stuck with it even though the second season especially was pretty bad. Seems like it suffers from the same "Star Trek series curse" as TNG, DS9, and Enterprise, where they don't become constantly good until season 3,

I stopped watching Red Dwarf after the first two episodes of series VIII. Seems like everyone else stopped watching as well as there wasn't another full series for another 13 years.

I've still only seen the X-Files up through maybe S7 and I regard 3 to 6 maybe as some of my fav television of all time.

Maybe.

This thread reminds me that I actually watched through all of Heroes, lol (not that recent revival season though)

I honestly though BSG was good up until the last few episodes, and the ending didn’t bother me too much.

Oz got pretty terrible in the last two and a half seasons, but I couldn’t stop watching

Season 7 of Homicide: Life on the Street was a train wreck but I watched it to the bitter end.

There's a lot of optimistic talk in this thread about the end of the X-Files

Probably friends

Absolutely loved ‘Dark’ but there’s a point in the third season when you realise the show you loved in season one (and parts of season two) is never, ever coming back now

in season 5 corbin bernsen’s character Arnie was fucking his former secretary in the CRAWL SPACE and they fell through the ceiling into the boss’s office inflagrante delicto

I watched every season and this scene is the only thing I can recall clearly! Except for the bit when I can’t remember fell down the elevator shaft

It was the actress who plays Dr. Pulaski in season 2 of ST:TNG.

It took the pandemic to slow down HBO Max"s Friends reunion; much as I'd be up for a Darin Morgan episode every two years until we all die, Duchovny and Anderson both said they're done with X-Files after S11.

do you have to have watched every episode, or does it count if you treated it like TV and just watched in weeks you were home, because it was on before something good?

I confess I do tend to treat TV like TV, which is obviously not the done thing.

Lost was at least a lot of fun to dunk on in its last two seasons. BSG also to some extent.

Seems like there are way too many shows that have a last season that really shouldn't have been. NOt sure how the Simpsons have spent half their time or longer doing that.
Resting on laurels of previous formula and using more of the formula than inspiration.

First thing that comes to mind for me was Teachers the bristol set slightly surreal sitcom from the 90s with the guy who would later star in Walking Dead. THought it was quite good for 3 seasons but really massively falls off for the last one which seems pretty desperately unfunny.

i'm one of the rare peeps who enjoyed BSG throughout *shrugs*

where u get to in X-F OL

Duchovny and Anderson both said they're done with X-Files after S11.

Also seasons 7, 8 and 9, is what I'm saying.

Come Back Mrs Noah maybe

Yes you're probably right

Two and a Half Men is like that too, I've never thought the show was particularly good but some of the episodes in the first two seasons are kinda funny

I don't think I ever made it much further than halfway through Friends. Probably a good stopping point? Inasmuch as I'm still able to say that I enjoy Friends, probably so.

Friends was amazing and I’ve watched many episodes twice. I loved it to the end.

for me the peak of Dexter was the NA meeting in season 2 where he comes forth in front of the group about his dark passenger

Friends is why I asked if you have to have seen every episode - no way that I did, but saw the first and probably the last and the vast majority along the way, just from scheduling and being paired with other good or half-dece American sitcoms of the time.

The only time I really cared about what was going on was the chunk where Monica and Chanandler were secretly boning after someone else's wedding. Rewatched that in '00s repeats too, and still enjoyed it.

Friends cameo poll imo

I have loved every episode of Will and Grace too, even the reboot

Fun fact that I didn't realize until I read Littlefield's book: James Burrows (the director of almost every episode of Cheers) directed every episode of Will & Grace. Which is literally the only thing that has piqued my interest wrt watching Will & Grace (which I still have never done).

Yeah I don’t know for sure that I’ve seen every Friends episode and don’t care to find out, but it feels like I have? Def watched it a lot when it was first airing (for all the criticisms against it, it did feel genuinely groundbreaking then - like, I’m Malaysian and Friends was prob the first time I heard the word lesbian on TV) and then over the years, it became one of those shows that’s always on somewhere - go to a foreign country, and it’s somehow the only show being aired in English, go to a friend’s house and they have it on in the background, and now my stepkid and her friends are watching it on Netflix etc. So yeah... unclear if I’ve in fact seen every episode but it’s entirely possible.

I've seen every episode of Friends. it peaked in seasons 2-4, then had a bunch of uneven seasons but always gems here and there. even the last season has a couple episodes I love