astrochimp

The X-Files

JuryDuty

Revenge was awesome when it was about taking a character down each week. But then it became more and more of a soap opera. Finally lost interest half way through season 3. Still have 10 shows sitting on my DVR.

BearFan

CSI, used to love that show and still watched it longer than I wish I had

mcnabb

If Season 4 of Homeland isn't that good, then I will bail. I LOVED this show in the first and second season, and then it went off the rails midway through the 2nd season and it will be interesting to see if it recovers this fall.

Entourage was another 'cant miss' show for me on Sunday night, and then I bailed sometime during the last 2 seasons when they tried to get all serious and dramatic and forgot that the show was a 30 minute mindless comedy and fun as hell to watch.

Weeds is a show that I binged OnDemand, and made it to Season 6, and then bailed it went from a great show to absolutely unwatchable.

Now if we want to go back to the 80's/90's Sitcoms:

-Happy Days: When Richie/Ralph left
-Three's Company: When Crissy left the show/or was fired?
-Coach: After Christine/Hayden got married as their on again off again relationship was a key component to the show
-Family Ties: When Andy went from being a baby to 5 years old in one season!
-All in the Family: When Meathead and Gloria moved next door in the Jeffersons house, and most of the conflict was gone.
-Cheers: The last 2-3 season got ridiculous as the characters became cariactures of themselves.

scorpion

Weeds.

Dexter. Seen every episode but the series finale. Once I found out Dexter became a lumberjack, I was done. It was a chore to get through the episodes already, but that was the final straw.

hdnmickey

I felt that way for the first couple seasons. But then it just got more stupid.

And Caan is what makes that show unwatchable for me. I could not longer ignore him and enjoy the others. Kill him off and I might be able to enjoy it the same way again.

GoldenJCJ

You know, as I was writing my post I was trying to remember if Phoebe had hooked up with anyone. I could swear at one point that she and Joey had feelings for one another but never acted on them. Either way it seemed like an awful lot of friend swapping had occurred. I guess none of the guys wanted To have sex with someone who squeezed out triplets...

I can see the episode title now: "The One Where Joey Throws a Hotdog Down a Mine Shaft".

bluetoast

Oz certainly dipped in quality near the end but the nudity was consistent throughout. They always took people to the hole.

Hokeyboy

hdnmickey

Maybe my maemory is fading, but I remember Friends going to "shippers" with Phoebe. One with Ross while he was thinking there was no chance with Rachael. And another with Joey before or after the had the thing with Rachael.

Damn, that Rachael sure was a slut.

kefrank

The Office (US) - for obvious and already-stated reasons
30 Rock - I'm not sure it ever got bad, but they just could not maintain the brilliance of the first few seasons
The Sopranos - lack of HBO after college killed my momentum with this one, though maybe I'll revisit it all on disc or streaming one day
Survivor - loved the first season but could not stick with it after that...I didn't even know until recently that one of my high school classmates was on it in the mid-2000s

magiccmom

Community--I have about 8 in the queue and to tell you the truth I have no idea what is going on. That from a show that I once thought was the most smartly written sitcom on TV.

hdnmickey

Never thought to include reality shows.

Bailed on Big Brother after it become obvous the were just casting for turmoil and fixing the results. Getting THIS.... close to doing the same with Survivor and The Amazing Race for the same reasons.

SteveA

I'm almost embarrassed to say this, but I watched "Pretty Little Liars" for an entire season before realizing that it's one of the most idiotic shows I've ever seen. Of course, I am clearly not in the target demographics.

TimeandTide

Same here.

Gave up completely on Hawaii 5-0 last season.

Lifepawn

Heroes - Dropped after the S3 premiere and wished I'd dropped after the S1 finale. I own S1 on Blu and think its great as a standalone story, but will never watch any of the later seasons again. I guess I won't be watching the new series either if it assumes viewers watched all the previous stuff.

Bones - I'm in the 5th season now and would drop except I actually want to find out what happens with . All the other characters I've lost interest in at this point. Never liked Sweets and Cam never grew on me even though she did improve.

Smallville - Stuck with it longer than I should have.

Most modern sitcoms I stop watching at some point. Some after a few episodes, some after a season or two.

I'm glad I stuck with Burn Notice to the end even though it did get repetitive in the final seasons.

joltman

Another one I'm adding to the list is Modern Family, I've watched every episode, but I'm not gonna watch it anymore. It doesn't seem to be as funny as it used, and feels more sitcom-y.

davidh777

Hmm, yeah, that's interesting. Iron Chef USA used to be appointment TV for me but I dropped it cold turkey. I think it was when they started cycling in new chefs who weren't as appealing.

In general, I hang on to shows to the bitter end. X-Files, Smallville, and especially Desperate Housewives I was glad to see end, and I'm still watching Glee.

mcnabb

Maybe I'm old here, but is anyone in this forum old enough to watch TV shows in the 1980's? All of these shows named here are recent, as very few are pre-late 90's.

kefrank

I guess I did Heroes right then. I binge-streamed the first season when it was all on the NBC website and loved it but then never bothered with the rest of the seasons.

Xiroteus

Nothing that I can recall that I stopped watching. Of course back then I mostly watched animated programs. However Star Trek and Perfect Strangers started in the eighties, of course I loved those.

RoyalTea

I'm not going to rehash the number of shows that have been mentioned many times already, but the shows that I have been into, then gave up on, all have one thing in common: They're all on over-the-air network TV, with 22-23 episode seasons.

It's a lot easier to stick with a cable TV show that's only 10-13 episodes long.

If "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" or "The League" were 22 episodes long, I'd probably have given up on Sunny a few years ago and I'd have given up on the The League this year.

Thos19

Burn Notice – got so repetitive I deleted the last season from my TiVo
Marvel’s Agents of Shield – Got so lame I didn’t care to find out about Agent Coulson’s secret return
The Office – no good without Michael
Weeds – lost their way after they left the town setting
Friends – got bored with the inter-friends hook-ups
Dexter –two seasons too long
Californication – Fizzled out
X-Files – No Mulder, no sale

Why So Blu?

Mad Men. The first 4 seasons, I think, were flawless, but then went down hill within the start of the first episode of the newest season. I lost track and stop caring. Hell, I developed a drinking problem during the start of that show and it let me down at the end. I stopped drinking.

Hokeyboy

I agree that the 10-13 episode season is PERFECT. Eliminate the network bloat.