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On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You should do a reverse one lol. For me that would be family guy: first few seasons are funny af then...a very steep drop

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    This is called "Jumping the Shark" after a Happy Days episode where The Fonz literally jumps a shark while water-skiing, and the show was mostly downhill in quality there and after.

    The opposite, and an answer to OP's question is "Growing the Beard" due to Star Trek: The Next Generation's apparent increase in quality after Will Riker grew a beard.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    For me, it was the Big Bang Theory. The first two seasons were great, third season was good, fourth season was kinda meh, and I stopped watching partway through the fifth season. From what I gathered, as the show gained popularity, they changed it from being a show for nerds, to being for "normal" people who know a nerd.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I wish I'd stopped watching The Walking Dead partway through season 5, whenever Rick and friends arrive at Alexandria, but before they go inside.

    Sure, there's plenty of good episodes/moments afterward, but without spoiling anything, that's also when a lot of the show's bullshit really ramps up.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The Walking Dead was also the first thing that came to my mind. I think I eventually stopped in season 7-8 or something and never went back.

    Recently I was thinking about rewatching the first season. Have you watched it again?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh, I go back to the beginning every now and again, usually for fitting background noise when I'm on a Project Zomboid kick.

    I forget exactly when I'd stopped watching the first time, probably when the show made Negan's introduction into a cliffhanger. Or whenever Carl was killed off, but I forget exactly when.

    Tried to push through to the Whisperers arc once though, but I made the mistake of getting invested in a new character after the time skip, someone I thought had a lot of interesting potential... and they were killed off to make the villains' introduction more "serious". I thought it was a huge waste. I don't have interest in finishing the show anymore, nor any of the spinoffs aside from Rick's miniseries.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Ok. I never saw any of the spinoffs because horror isn't really my genre if I am honest but I remember the first couple of seasons were quite good and interesting. Just wanted to go back and check how they aged, because I never saw them again. Definitely not going to watch the whole show, because after a while it is just more of the same thing and as you said the storylines just get more and more ridiculous.

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