TV Fans Are Calling Out The Shows That They "Gave Up On," And They're Not Holding Back

Have you ever been respective seasons heavy into a TV amusement and realized: "we've missed the full crippled here"? Maybe your fave quality got killed disconnected (RIP), oregon the communicative became straight-up unbelievable. Sometimes you're fortunate capable to ne'er acquisition it. But erstwhile it happens, you suffer involvement and locomotion distant forever...

Well don't worry, origin you're not alone. Over connected r/television, radical are sharing the TV shows they committed superior clip to...only to ditch them earlier getting to spot the conclusion. Some of the responses are truthful brutally honest, but relatable astatine the aforesaid time. Let's dive into the champion takes.

1. "The Walking Dead. They ne'er should've fired the enforcement director and amusement runner aft Season 1 due to the fact that helium wanted a bigger fund to support the Season 1 prime going forward. The radical were hooked, determination was present a fanbase, and yet they decided that It's overmuch cheaper to marque a soap opera connected a farm. Season 1 of The Walking Dead is immoderate of the champion TV ever made. Season 2 and 3 had its moments, but it was intelligibly already a antithetic show."

—gekinz

"For me, the biggest dip successful prime came with the accomplishment of Negan and the decease of Glenn. Going from the affectional character-driven nonaccomplishment of Beth to the inexpensive daze of introducing Negan truly drove it location that this was a antithetic show. I tried watching the remainder of the play but it conscionable mislaid my interest. We went from fantastic characters that got to cognize each different to a cliché zombie movie with leap scares."

—dinosaurkiller

2. "Once Upon a Time. Its ratio of 'trash' to 'fun' starts retired precise bully but ends up SUPER upside down adjacent earlier the past play crashes and burns."

—tychobrahesmoose

3. "The 100. I got truly acold into it, but the amusement conscionable started getting truly wacky. It goes from chill sci-fi thought to being capable to upload consciousness into exertion chips that tin spell into your head. They spell into space, they find different dimensions, they spell done time, and they conscionable permission earth. It keeps going and going but it's conscionable truthful wild, I can't adjacent retrieve each of it. I didn't adjacent decorativeness the last mates of seasons due to the fact that it was conscionable truthful crazy."

—VanessaAlexis

4. "Shameless, I conscionable couldn’t support going aft the full custody communicative line. She didn’t get a lawyer, really? She knew for a information that determination was grounds her dada called successful a fake extremity and didn’t fuss trying to beryllium it? Too dumb."

—Ren_Kaos

"I stuck astir until Fiona left. By that time, the bulk of the kids had go adults who had capable stableness that their problems were wholly self-created. They were inactive acting similar delinquent small assholes, adjacent though they didn't request to scrape and strategy to survive."

—NativeMasshole

5. "The Handmaid’s Tale. She conscionable kept going back. WTF."

—trollanonymous

6. "How I Met Your Mother. I made it to the past season, but to this day, I lone cognize however it ends due to the fact that of the internet. I don’t retrieve the specifics, but that past play conscionable felt similar it was going nowhere. Bullet dodged."

—thecastle7

"The amusement runners fundamentally said that they planned to extremity it astatine the extremity of Season 8. They wanted to bash the wedding for the last 3 oregon 4 episodes of Season 8, and past Ted meets the parent arsenic the last shot. But the workplace fundamentally said '$$$' (and possibly 'contracts'), and BOOM…Season 9."

—MonkeyChoker80

7. "Heroes. Yes, we cognize the writers' onslaught killed it. But lad did they person a large start. 'Save the cheerleader, prevention the world'."

—eat_a_burrito

8. "Scandal. It's truly incompatible with binge watching and I astir missed an full play doing a transverse state move. I gave it up with 2 seasons near and ne'er truly cared to spell back."

—OuterSpaceBootyHole

9. "The Flash Season 1 is astonishing successful a batch of ways, but the ways that it's astonishing undermine the amusement beauteous overmuch immediately. It does this amusive happening with the clip question constituent by settling into a emblematic archetypal play crippled — "evil businessman becomes funny successful Barry, subject antheral considers him a threat" — and past those characters get murdered immediately. It's honestly beauteous clever penning for clip question connected TV. But by the extremity of the archetypal season, you've escalated truthful overmuch that there's truly obscurity to spell from there. The conception of Season 1 was truthful throughly investigated that I tin ideate sitting down to constitute Season 2 indispensable person been painful. Season 2 is alright for what it is, but it's beauteous overmuch a consecutive downhill enactment for each play after."

—CollinsCouldveDucked

10. "Grey’s Anatomy — It died a small erstwhile George left, and a spot much erstwhile Addison left. I hung connected for 2 bid until Cristina near and past sacked it off. Early seasons erstwhile they were interns were by acold the best."

—GoldmanT

11. "Sons of Anarchy. Loved the show. I person not seen the last season. I conscionable got truthful bored of the 'soap drama' that conscionable kept repeating the aforesaid happening implicit and over."

—BasenjiMaster

12. "True Blood is the lone 1 I tin deliberation of wherever I watched aggregate seasons and past stopped. Usually if I springiness up, its aft conscionable 1 season."

—bbraker8

13. "Supernatural. I'm not watching the 'sister of God named Darkness' BS with the aforesaid member play that was resolved 20 years ago. What turned maine disconnected the amusement adjacent earlier was that they leaned mode excessively overmuch into comedy, portion initially it was a mild fearfulness with drama elements. Bloody Mary successful Season 1 was mode creepier than biblical villains successful aboriginal seasons."

—signe-h

14. "Supergirl. It became truthful repetitive I stopped watching with 1 play left."

—hacksaw2174

15. "The Blacklist — James Spader is astonishing but the remainder of the formed are truthful wooden, I thought they were flatpack furniture."

—cgknight1

"The archetypal fewer seasons were precise entertaining and the underlying enigma was a large hook. Plus Spader was awesome. After Season 4, it felt similar the communicative should've ended but the producers were dragging it retired due to the fact that they (and NBC) were making money. Then it became wide what the 'big reveal' was gonna beryllium and I couldn’t judge however idiotic it was. There were tons of crippled holes that didn’t adhd up. It was conscionable sloppy and lazy. I skipped the full past play and from what I heard astir it, I’m gladsome I didn’t discarded immoderate much of my time."

—1spring

16. "Pretty Little Liars. I was implicit halfway through, but my involvement rapidly dwindled and I ended up spoiling myself connected the ending. I was kinda gladsome I didn't ticker the rest. It had imaginable though."

—femroot

17. "Ally McBeal. I deliberation I discontinue soon aft Robert Downey Junior got arrested and fucked up the full storyline. Still a spot miffed astir that, adjacent though I'm thrilled helium really got his beingness backmost unneurotic aft that."

—SuzyQ93

18. "Yellowjackets. This amusement is conscionable a shittier Lost. Even Season 1 was beauteous weak, but the 'present' storyline is atrocious."

—thalo616

19. "I got to Season 6 of Riverdale earlier I tapped the fuck retired from the alternate dimensions, ace powers, and shit."

—jmpinstl

"Wow! You made it truthful far! I deliberation I stopped similar halfway done Season 4. Whatever play had Chad Michael Murray arsenic a cult person and that weird dormant Jughead storyline was erstwhile I quit."

—jackandsally060609

20. "Dexter. I would accidental the archetypal 4 seasons are beauteous overmuch perfect. The occupation is that the writers got anserine and made Dexter repetition the nonstop aforesaid errors implicit and implicit again. It's not absorbing seeing him divulge his secrets to immoderate alien who ends up being the idiosyncratic that contributes to his downfall. If helium made mistakes and learned from them each time, that would beryllium something. But helium can't marque the aforesaid anserine mistakes implicit and implicit again and expect that to beryllium interesting. I truly wanted him to crook into this borderline antihero God who perfected his trade truthful overmuch that he's adjacent untouchable. Him solving serial murderers and getting the champion of them is what I wanted to see. Not him sweating that he's astir to get caught each azygous time."

—AndarianDequer

21. "The Office — I person ne'er been capable to get done Season 6, nary substance however hard I try. It conscionable loses me, I can't ore connected it oregon travel it, and I springiness up."

—SuzyQ93

22. "I grew up watching NCIS with my parents. We kept up until astir of the formed was replaced and haven't ever bothered going backmost to decorativeness it. I did decorativeness NCIS: LA due to the fact that it was mode much Micheal Bay, truthful it was easier to propulsion connected a 2nd show and crook my encephalon disconnected erstwhile catching up during the pandemic."

—P-Two

23. "I’m retired connected The Bear. It’s similar a symphony wherever each question is an adagio."

—maduste

"Hard agree. I deliberation a batch of radical person held connected to however large episodes 'Fishes' and 'Forks' were. Looking back, Season 1 was truly good. Season 2 was alright extracurricular of those 2 episodes, Season 3 was awful, and Season 4 was conscionable okay. It was mode excessively drawn out. How agelong tin the crippled struggle of a Docusign continue? I deliberation I’m retired connected Season 5."

—username1225

I hold SO HARD with the takes connected The Walking Dead and Pretty Little Liars. I loved some of those 2 shows, but they wholly mislaid maine aft a fewer seasons...

I volition ne'er get implicit you, Glenn.

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.