Worst television show you watched to the bitter end

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

Community

> Dr. Pulaski in season 2 of ST:TNG

who also appeared twice in ST:TOS (as different characters each time)

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.

"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.)

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."

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.

Which one is the non-Morgan reboot episode worth watching? I finally watched/skimmed the Mein Kampfs last week and they are astonishingly mediocre.

S11e07, "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" by Shannon Hanblin & Kristen Cloke.

(I didn't even skim the Carter episodes in S11.)

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.

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.

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

also it is a perfect time capsule of the era during which it aired

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.

I wonder how many people flipped on oc vs gilmore girls in retrospect.

Dexter for sure

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.

Still ongoing, but Doctor Who (post 2005).

Xpost Who's gonna watch the ten ep limited series?

the absolute nadir of Six Feet Under was that Kurt Cobain's death flashback ep, lol that was so unbearable.

xp

oh no, why have they done that? WHY!