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What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did? (lemmy.world)

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Too many "what got cancelled too soon" questions, what's a show that went on too long?

Hard mode: no The Walking Dead

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[-] blue_berry@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

American Gods. I mean, still better would have been to just do it as good as the first season

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[-] Kahlenar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Big Mouth. Season 4 redoes and then it just gets awful

[-] operator@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Surprised I haven’t seen Prison Break yet. After season 3 it just went down

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[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The 2020 Dracula Netflix show.

The first episode is a fun reimagining of the original story. The second episode is a neat "reverse who-done-it"/bottle episode. The third episode should not exist. Full stop. "Dracula wakes up in modern times and it turns out his weaknesses are just PTSD and then he chooses to die out of honor or something."

Penny Dreadful

The second season ends on a fantastic melancholy vibe that matches the whole tone of the show. The third season wastes all character development to have extra drama.

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[-] VogonFrost@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Heroes

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[-] MisterBigFart@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Every Jenji Kohan show.

[-] JE2SJWMKLS@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Mad Men. If it had ended with him standing on the top of the stairs saying "This is not the end!" it would have been perfect. Everything after that was weak wish fulfillment.

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[-] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

Chuck. It was on air at the same time as Better Off Ted, which was a fantastic show. IIRC, two seasons into Better Off Ted, the network had to choose between the two shows, and they chose to keep Chuck running. We were robbed.

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The first half of the series was great, I literally almost choked from laughter a couple times. The show kept going but I thought the jokes weren't landing as much anymore.

[-] Cyzaine@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Oh definitely a hot take! Obviously there are outstanding episodes in the newer seasons, but you also can't say it hasn't changed alot.

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[-] Severed_Fate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Game of Thrones

How I Met Your Mother

Tokyo Ghoul

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[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Friends.

Lost.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I was just thinking about the friends later seasons, hooking up Joey and Rachel, wtf was that about?

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

It was about money. Nothing else.

All I can think is that they were running out of couples, and the execs wanted to keep their cash cow alive for as long as possible. So, they ordered the writers to make it work somehow.

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Young Sheldon. There's nothing left they can do with the formula.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think The Shield ended a season too late. If the seasons 6 and 7 were condensed into one with [spoilers ahead] the fallout of the Kavanaugh investigation and the money train, rather than stretching them across two different season, I think the ending would have a tighter pace and would really feel like the "walls are closing in." Plus the whole cartel subplot of the last season came out of nowhere

Edit: Riverdale too, but that should go without saying

Edit 2: House of Cards should've ended with Kevin Spacey leaving

Edit 3: True Detective

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