I thought the basically the last 1/3rd of Ted Lasso was really bad. I loved the beginning of the show and stuck it out just to see how it ended. But it became a kind of hard watch at the end.
Friday OT #1 - Jump the Shark
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I usually stop watching a show after it becomes a soap opera. It seems like a lot of shows have a good premise but the writers eventually run out of good ideas. At that point they start in on love lives, infidelity, jealousy, etc. to create some drama. Ted Lasso is a good example. I barely made it through the second season even though I liked the first season very much.
I enjoyed the first season of Brockmire. Season Two and Three weren't great and I hoped for a return to the humor that Season One had, but after the Season Four first episode I checked out. They projected the baseball season into the year 2030 and it was just plain weird/not funny.
I watched a couple of scenes last week I think. I couldn't tell what was going on but they are working really hard to find something for the characters to do.
The first season was damn near perfect. Should've just stopped there but nobody does that...
I was trying to think of shows I intentionally gave up on, not ones where life circumstances got in the way, and this was one I came up with. I'm usually a ride it to the end type of guy, but I don't think I even made it to the end of S2 with this one. S1 was great, but it fell off hard in S2 and had no desire to watch it anymore.
Winner. I blame AMC, TWD, and Netflix when they took it over. They invented it, imho. They realize they had a ton of veiwers and wanted as many episodes as they could get to cash in on. And with streaming, they could do a billion shows and stretch it out forever. Then suddenly every show on streaming would have episodes with nothing but foreshadowing, and the plot never actually moved forwards. Nothing happens!
I really liked TWD, but then somewhere along the way, they would take 2 episodes of story, and stretch it into 15 episodes. I got tired of it and bailed out.
My view on this for about every episode when I checked in:
--Someone built a fort or little fort town or something.
--They held all of the power...or something.
--Rick and some other people were trying to escape or take it over because they had nowhere else to go. Or something.
--Occasionally walkers show up to remind us of the reason they built the fort town and the general premise of the show.
Blacklist started great. Find bad guys, track them down. The variety of the villains and the ways they did this made it great. Then a soap opera happened and the characters all started doing uncharacteristic things all at once. And let's throw a kid into the storyline, because that what fans of this genre are dying for.
Manifest and Revolution both had cool premises. Plane disappears and shows up 5 years later and the passengers hadn't aged. There were so many stories they could have run with, but they instead went with a supernatural angle with one of the most poorly written and acted villains I've ever witnessed. So damn painful to watch. I didn't root against her because she was a villain, I rooted against her because she was terrible, and her dialogue sounded like she was reading it off a cue card off camera.
Revolution. Worldwide blackout knocks all of society back to the dark ages. Sweet. So much chaos. How does society react? Do people retain their humanity? Nah, screw that. Let's immediately fast forward five years and treat the series like a poorly written period piece set in the Civil War Era.
I gave up on Yellowstone twice, but the scene that did it the second time involved a buffalo, a drunk driver and an unborn relative of the governor.
That show is a habitual shark jumper.
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I thought Lost was only going to be 1 season. Once I found out it wasnt I stopped watching it. They ever get off that Island?
I think some were dead but then some weren't but nobody cared enough by then.
The original Jump the Shark was, of course, Happy Days. When they morphed it from a comedy to some sort of dramady where it's not laughs any more.
I used to see that a lot in sitcoms back in the day. They'd start out funny with wacky characters but then about season 3 or 4 somebody's on drugs, or thinking about premarital sex or somebody wants to quit school and suddenly the show has to be all moral preaching and not funny.
I used to see that a lot in sitcoms back in the day. They'd start out funny with wacky characters but then about season 3 or 4 somebody's on drugs, or thinking about premarital sex or somebody wants to quit school and suddenly the show has to be all moral preaching and not funny.
Nope. You'd have thought that between the Skipper and the Professor, theyd have been able to fix a 2 foot long hole in a boat, but they never did.