Suits. It's insanely unrealistic, full of nonsense drama for no reason, and just has some of the most insane bullshit. But God damn was it a fun show to watch.

TWD main show got pretty terrible too. It's sad because FTWD definitely had some good moments too and at a certain point it even looked like it improved a bit again. But now it feels just like some trash tier zombie show.

• Falling Skies. A science fiction series executive produced by Steven Spielberg about a ragtag group of survivors after an alien invasion.
• The Strain. Sci-fi/horror show created by Guillermo del Toro. About vampires; think modern retelling of Dracula. And nukes are involved at some point.

NBC has a show called “The Nightly News”, and from 2017-2021 the writing was completely insane and the main characters were basically cartoonish villains, but it was hard not to watch. There were tons of other viewers and an ungodly number of fan sites online to discuss the various sub-plots and characters.

By early 2020, one of the 2019 sub-plots went completely viral and millions of people didn’t even leave their houses.

In late 2020, one of the main characters was voted off the show and it became a whole “thing”. The writers, ultimately, didn’t really remove the character—just minimized him to a series of courtroom B-stories, and the occasional fan-service appearance.

The show is still on, but I think it must have different show runners these days.

I wonder if foundation would qualify? If you were a fan of the books and expecting something remotely similar you’d be wildly disappointed. But the visuals in the show are really good and one of the storylines (Not even remotely found in the book) is really entertaining with one of the actors (Lee Pace) putting on an absolute clinic.

Halo If you’re looking for pure shit

Arrow.

With the exception of S4. That was just Dawson's creek.

In my opinion, no show has ever done WTF as well as 'The Venture Brothers.'

Take all the tropes you know and love and punch them in the ovaries.

I had no idea it was still going. I got about 6 episodes in and gave up.

To be fair the early Fear seasons weren't too bad, the only real complaint I had back then was that they barely spent any time exploring the early days of the zombie breakout. It's like they noped out of the LA area & immediately settled into the slower story mode that mid-season TWD was already in. IMO Black Summer (a different zombie series) did the early stuff right, just about every episode in the first season was tense & they lost people most episodes, I can't remember for sure but it seemed like most of the original cast was gone by the end of the first season alone.

But to answer your question maybe the Van Helsing series? They had a similar arc like Fear, first few seasons were amazing (probably better than Fear) but wow by the time they made it to the last season the writing was at about the same level of Fear.

Who is mowing all the lawns???

Most shows like this are decent in their first season, and that's why they get a second. Keeping it interesting is the problem, and all the Walking Dead shows pretty much fail there.

The Dynasty reboot.

Maybe One Tree Hill?

Anything Marvel.

X Files