A.P. Bio. They slowly tied to normalize it and it lost all its edge.
Welcome To Flatch. Season 1 was awesome! Season 2 they tried to make it a “normal” show and it was awful.
What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that?
Submitted 16 hours ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
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1hitsong@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Westworld comes to mind for me
Speculater@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The ending of season 1 was perfect. Anything after that is an excuse for nudity and gore.
Pronell@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Agreed. I like the following seasons okay but the first season is nearly perfect on its own.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Season 2 was rough, but I think season 3 was a good soft reboot. After that it’s all downhill again, but it almost righted itself.
ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Heroes. The first season wrapped up its story beautifully. The second season was an aimless disaster.
I’ve read online that the original plan was for each season to tell a stand-alone story with a different set of heroes but the network was insistent on keeping the popular characters from season one on for season two. Peter Petrelli’s power is universe-breaking after he learns to control it, so the show ended up tying itself into a pretzel to explain why the answer to every problem isn’t “get Peter to snap his fingers and fix it”. There was also a writer’s strike in the middle of the season, which didn’t help.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
The writer’s strike shielded the show from so much criticism, because people figured the shite pacing and jumble of characters were caused by the studio plowing ahead without proper scripts. Nope! Executives just demanded the dumbest shit imaginable, and the original creators did their level best, until they were told to stop work and join the picket line.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
altered carbon. Season 2 was so cheap in comparison
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Bleach.
Season one, an otherworldly intruder accidentally ropes some kid and his friends into fighting monsters, in a grounded modern setting with a distinct sense of comedic realism.
Season two, they went to Namek.
theblips@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Hard disagree. Bleach was advertised as a dumb battle shonen when it’s main achievement is the lore and art. There’s still plenty of good stuff after the first season, and basically none of the worldbuilding is done by that point
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 16 minutes ago
The who-is-stronger exposition dumps are the problem. I don’t give a shit about Soul Society - that’s not the show I was enjoying. That’s just what it became, for endless repetitive nonsense, after the formulaic-but-distinct first season made a ton of money.
If there was no first season - if it actually had been advertised on what’s in the second season onward - I would not have finished a single episode. Total apathy. But because I cared about what it was, and hoped we might get more of that, I still feel betrayed.
Skavau@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
The obvious examples for me are Altered Carbon, The Terror (although its anthological and a third is in production) and Westworld.
THB@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Gonna go with Handmaid’s Tale, gets progressively worse with each season
teamevil@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Goliath…the show with Billy Bob Thornton. Season 1 had dynamics and interesting characters plus the ending resolved all the loose ends.
Next attempts at seasons were beyond lame.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Altered Carbon
wiccan2@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Prison Break The Rig
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I actually think season 2 of Prison Break was a perfectly natural and well done (for the intended tone) continuation of the story. I know people snarkily point out the title doesn’t strictly apply anymore, but I think convicts on the run from a manhunt fits. The show was from the beginning always a political conspiracy thrilled baked inside of a prison story anyway.
The following seasons get increasingly absurd, but they are enjoyable in a silly way.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Strong agree. I think Prison Break slowly goes off the rails with more spies and conspiracy. It’s not out of nowhere given Lincoln’s original crime is murdering the Vice President (allegedly), but it does eventually just get ridiculous.
I still like the later seasons for the characters, but it is wildly different from where they started.
chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I couldn’t get past the first episode of The Rig because it seemed cheaply made.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You’re not wrong, it was watchable but barely.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Jessica Jones
spicyspaceelephant@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Firefly. After the first season everything that made the show great is just missing.
morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 4 hours ago
The movie was enjoyable
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
He said what he said.
SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 6 hours ago
This but unironically. I hated that movie.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
Weeds
teamevil@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Weeds was okay up to season 3
FMT99@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Before you all kill me, this is just like my unpopular opinion man, but Futurama… The first season, well maybe the first two, were amazing, clever scifi parody but the premise wore thin and it became schmaltzy and unfunny. It became more about the characters and less about the world and it suffered for it.
I mean “should have been dropped” might be a bit strong.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Found the Fox executive /j
Oka@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
That is an unpopular opinion, but valid. I still haven’t finished the Hulu run yet. It doesn’t hit the same.
jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
While I enjoy the later seasons, I can broadly agree with your point.
scytale@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Squid Game. The Mandalorian maybe?
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Whole season 2 of The Mandalorian had the distinct flavor of introducing executive producer mandated spin-off hooks, I still found it quite good overall. The finale was the perfect ending to the Mando and child storyline.
The perfect ending. We didn’t need anymore after that ending.
Everything Mando related after that has gone totally off the rails by undoing that ending, and the show has become a parody of itself.
Oka@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
We won’t know on Squid Game until Season 3 comes out. 1 was more iconic than 2, but still good.
JillyB@beehaw.org 16 hours ago
I only watched a bit of True Detective season 2 but I could tell it was not going to be nearly as good as the phenomenal first season
theblips@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
To be fair, it was the highest possible bar to clear. True Detective season 1 is arguably the best TV has ever gotten, it was just perfect from story to pacing to acting and cinematography
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 hours ago
I enjoyed seasons 2 to 4 of True Detective, but they’re not even close to the level of season 1.
Hubi@feddit.org 15 hours ago
TD Season 2 has to be one of the biggest falls from grace I’ve ever seen in a TV show.
jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
As weird as it sounds, I liked season 2 TD a lot and on some level I think it’s even better than season 1.
I initially watched season 1, then season 4 (skipped 2 because of the seemingly bad feedback) and then watched season 2.
I really liked that season 2 was more down to earth and had more of a realistic-gritty vibe. I really liked the ending as well. It felt real.
Season 1 was great, but in comparison to season 2 it was more about style. I liked the setup of season 4 (and it was cool to see Jodie Foster), but I didn’t like the ending.
But yes, I do think season 2 of true detective was better than season 1.
Wazowski@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Lost
glimse@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You can hate on the end all you want but don’t pretend like it stopped being good after the first season
Wazowski@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
It was a dogshit show with no plot.
SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 6 hours ago
Cobra Kai
Every successive season forgets harder and harder that grown men having karate feuds is embarrassingly juvenile.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Friday Night Lights
blindsight@beehaw.org 3 hours ago
Heroes was great at the start, but that didn’t even last a whole season. The “Save the cheerleader, save the world” arc might be the best superhero TV ever made (10 or 11 episodes, I think?) then it rapidly went downhill to mediocre then terrible.