The original post: /r/television by /u/Farewell_Anns on 2024-05-07 14:26:44.

I have a couple of personal examples of shows that I used to love watching until they basically became absolutely painful to.

  1. The Handmaid’s Tale: I really loved the first season. Imo it had to end there though. It would’ve been perfect as a limited series. Later seasons were absolutely unneccessary as they existed just for shock value.
  2. Grey’s Anatomy: It was more or less enjoyable up to S10. Christina’s exit would have been a perfect finale. But no, let’s keep the show on for another 10 seasons even though no OG character is there anymore!

While I understand that they were both pretty popular shows in their own way and therefore studios wanted to renew them as long as possible for pure profit, I don’t believe such a sharp decrease in quality (and, consequently, losing your audience) is worth it.