Worst television show you watched to the bitter end

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!

American Gothic

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.

xpost how dare u

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.