Submitted 1 year ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to moviesandtv@lemmy.film
When watching a show a while after it’s released you can sometimes tell when a show was canceled because a season will end on a big (occasionally spiteful) event.
The following season after it’s picked back up occasionally stumbles a bit but I’m wondering what examples can you think of that were especially bad?
The X-Files return. 2 brief seasons that felt like they were designed to make sure no one asks for any more of the show ever again.
Yeah, that one was just so so bad. For some reason, Chris Carter has completely lost the ability to write even a half-decent script.
What a disgusting failure on Christ Carter’s part for this art to reflect current things and attitudes. Doesn’t he know that the point of art is for me to feel smug about being on the right side of history? We must cancel him.
And they completely forgot about their kid and the end of the world story didn’t they?
There are a couple of fantastic episodes sprinkled in there though. One is like a Black Mirror episode with Mulder and Scully being chased by a malevolent AI. There are a few that seem like they came straight out of the 90s monster of the week episodes too.
i’ll say it: futurama
Besides Hulu appearing in the show (which combined with Solar Opposites Hulu episode makes me wonder if it is a requirement by Hulu) why do you say that?
new season ep 1… did you watch it? i matt is stuck in the past. just like the simpsons it has lost touch on all levels.
in simpsons matt failed to adress changes like mobile phones , tablets or just the fact that he owns a house, two cars, two kids and has one job pays the bills. insane. matt felt that and tried make them use a cellphone once in a while but geez this feels outdated and so does futurama this year. not one of the jokes was pointing the viewer to anything new. south park has a hard time these days aswell but did not fail like futurama 2023.
solar opposites is nice I agree. Final Space was better. And again shit wins: lower decks.
I was thinking the same thing. It’s had two awkward revivals now.
They show got a clean, decisive, clear cut, happy ending. Why the fuck would they keep going after that? Just make a new show, even a spin-off in the same universe, but there’s no point to bringing back the same characters
Prison Break Season 5 after the story was more than done after season 4
No-one’s mentioned Dexter yet, so I’m gonna go ahead and do that. What a shit show. I really don’t get why they brought it back from the dead. Sure the original ending was kind of shitty, but it wasn’t that bad they had to revive it and kill it for good.
I thought up until the last episode it was really solid. That last episode was real bad though.
I’m glad someone enjoyed it! I don’t think I could cringe as much watching a show as when I was watching that. I’d rather watch Dawson’s Creek or something. There were a lot of elements that could’ve made it great, but it just really felt horrible watching it the whole time. In comparison the weird X-Files reboot was at least kind of fun, Dexter was like watching a trainwreck to me.
Galactica 1980 (shudder)
Happy Days literally jumping the shark
Futurama. It’s just like… not amusing anymore?
I didn’t watch it until after the most recent cancelation and enjoyed it all the way through, but I watched the first few episodes of the new season week to week and thought they were really bland
Yeh really disappointing.
Warehouse 13, season 5 only happened because of the fans and boy was it disappointing
Not really cancelation per se, but some of my favorite shows came back from the writer’s strike in 2007-08 pretty poorly.
Sarah Connor Chronicles was axed shortly after they went back on air. Chuck’s post-strike material was S3 and beyond, and that’s when it started to jump the shark for me. Prison Break S4 was exceptionally bad, even by PB standards.
Dexter did have the Trinity Killer, which was the best season and antagonist by far.
V (2009). Evil aliens just suddenly won.
The 2009 series was a reboot, though. Not a sequel to the original.
Hero. Season 1 was great, however many seasons after unraveled for me.
then the comeback? I don’t even think we made it through the entirety of episode 1. wtf were they doing.
Veronica Mars. Incredible first season followed by 2 lesser but still good seasons. They made an incredible kickstarter video for a revival movie that I believe was the biggest kickstarter ever at the time. But the movie was really bad. There was another Hulu season after that I can barely remember watching except for the awful ending.
Some things should just stay dead.
How dare you remind me of that movie.
I also read one of the spin-off books and thought it was pretty good. No idea why the movie was so bad.
I’m not sure what you’re describing is a common thing.
Writers are known for spiting their viewers like that. They would rather close their story lines.
1bluepixel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For me, it was definitely Arrested Development. The original run was super tight and hilarious, and worked as a self-contained story. Then season four happened and… yeah.
A clear example of a show jumping the shark between seasons.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I believe the main issue there was scheduling conflicts. They couldn’t get all the cast in one place at the same time. So they worked around that in the script. They did a great job given the constraints, but not a great job by the standards of the series.
macrocephalic@kbin.social 1 year ago
I actually really liked season four in its original format - where you saw the story from one person's perspective and then later saw it from another's. The way the story lines intertwined was really good IMO. If you watch it now then you get the recut version where it's all in chronological order and it's just weak.