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Yea… I quit watching Six Feet Under in the 4th season and I actually used the term "Soap Operapry" as the reason. I never went back to finish watching it.
No sign off Jules 😢
Six feet under and dexter same character?
True Detective took a dive after season one and kept on diving as far as I'm concerned
9 TV Shows That Jumped the Shark in Their First Season
Different direction and creative differences are not the same as "jumping the shark."
"Jumping the Shark" is a creative bereft desperate attempt to get eyeballs.
Get it right! You guys are losing it lately.
I think I must be the only person who loved Twin Peaks season 2, and the increasing lore that those episodes introduced.
Sooooo… those are LITERALLY NOT jet skis that Fonze is on. They are just skis. Water skis if you wanna be specific. No jets anywhere in sight. You can even see the ski rope pulling him rather clearly. And please learn literal meaning of "literally."
I might have included MASH. When Henry Blake dies and Trapper leaves, it seemed like the show would go downhill. (I remember one critic writing that it wouldn't work without the bumbling Henry Blake.) But they brought in Henry Morgan as Potter and later David Ogden Steirs as Winchester and… the show improved!
And then true detective went right down the drain again with season 4
respectfully, your into claims that jumping the shark means a tv show changed. i always thought it meant one episode is so ridiculous in premise that recovery may be impossible. yes that is change. but there's a difference between a descent , sudden or otherwise, into mediocrity vs a sudden slap in the brain. i haven't watched the whole show, and i will, because you guys are good, so i'm hoping you clarify. i just wish you hadn't led like that.
I was in the audience laughter track for Red Dwarf series 7. We went down to a South London Studio, the boys from the Dwarf showed up to introduce the episodes (all four, in casuals, not in character), so I have a soft spot… series 8 & the three parter were rubbish though. All good now.
I love the gas leak ret con! In retrospect season four really wasn’t that bad, it just wasn’t good as the first three seasons.
Justified's final season saving it from whatever the hell season 5 was. Also I wouldn't call The Shield season 4 BAD specifically (it's pacing is even better then later season 6) BUT 4 felt like it was flexing its guest stars more than its narrative IMO
My personal pick is 24 season 6 when they introduced Jack Bauer's father & brother as the antagonists 🙄
From what I remember, Brody's d*ath actually made me stop watching. It cemented to me they didn't know what they wanted to do with their own narrative, so ending it with one of the main characters felt like a cheap reset. I like Rupert Friend well enough as an actor, but Carrie consistently using her genitals as a chess piece and never growing or maturing past that made it gross to watch. Sad, actually, because it told me the writers only saw her as two-dimensional also.
I saw Community for the first time about a year ago. I can't say I felt any dip in quality when Season 4 hit. I swear its just Harmon nerds overreacting way too hard.
Water skis, not jet skis.
Couldn't ever watch Homeland. Saw one episode and the constant mispronunciation of "Eye-raq" was enough to make it unwatchable. Bloody Americans need to learn English.
I'm shocked. Pleasantly so, but still shocked.
I believe the first four seasons of The West Wing have never been bettered. Then we got season five, and I wanted to cry. Season six WAS better, but season seven was an excellent end to a classic series.
I rarely, if ever, hear anyone talk about that.
While nothing will change my wanting to flush (almost all) of season five down the toilet, it's nice to FINALLY listen to someone other than myself talk about it.
The intro is too long.
Poor Michelle Trachtenberg. Whenever she's added to a show, she's doomed to be one of the most annoying characters.
True Detective season 2 had some good elements (I really liked Rachel McAdams' character, for example), but it was also like they had some very good actors in it without a good idea what to do with them.
Happy Days did come back after jumping the shark. They actually changed the situation of the show at least twice after that I remember, and got good viewership
The Brody storyline in Homeland was awful. I was so glad when they got rid of him.
I'd put both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff, Angel, on this list. Both of them had serious dips in quality in their second to last season, but came back for surprisingly strong final seasons. Especially Angel.
Waterskis, not jet skis.
The first 3 True Detective series were solid gold classics. Night Country (Season 4), to my disappointment, was an hilariously awful, infantile and woefully scripted mess. It not only jumped the shark, it face-planted into its welcoming jaws. Jodie Foster's acting was barely OK, but probably looked Streepian by comparison to the other droogs in this turkey.
You can add Power Rangers to this list. Somehow, the show survived and even thrived after Dino Charge's bonkers finale.
22 episodes for season 2 Twin Peaks was normal at the time for American broadcast show. Fortunately networks learned the lesson of over milking the cow and now don’t as often pressure show runners as much to write more episodes than they have story for. I do sometimes miss those very long seasons though.