What the title says. When this happens to me, I just find a good spot to use as my ending and ignore the rest. There is no need to throw away the whole show because of a bad season / a few bad episodes at the end. Especially if there’s a good point before that I can use as my end and still be satisfied. But sometimes I still get jealous when I see other shows that have good ending because man, I wish I got that for my favourite show. Not the writers spiting at my face after I supported their show for years.

I think Currently severance has the potential to become a classic in near future. It's soo well made and the blend of Mystery and sci-fi is amazing, it's like LOST of new era. All its need a good Ending.

Also I think The Bear, The White Lotus, Ted lasso, Last Of Us are there too.

One of the worst culprits of this is the Outsider imo. The first 2 episodes directed by Jason Bateman are imo prestige tv and then it falls off badly after that. Another one is Tokyo Vice as well. First episodes were directed by Michael Mann and then while the rest was good it wasn't as amazing. The Old Man imo is another one of these. What are some other examples ?

I was just watching the final episode of “Masters of the Air”, and about 42’ in , there is a scene where Croz and the recently returned Rosie are talking in front of a fireplace in the officer’s club. The mantelpiece has a large ceramic mug on it in the shape of a masked man’s face.

If memory serves, there was a mug like that (called a “Toby”) in the movie “Twelve O’Clock High” starring Gregory Peck. In the movie, the Toby is turned facing the wall when a mission is to take place the following day, and turned back facing the room at the end of the mission. It’s a fantastic movie, btw.

Maybe it was there in earlier episodes, but I just noticed it. Really cool to see that!

For me it’s The Walking Dead say what you want about it, it falls off after season 7 and it’s the ending felt really strange, really wish they went more line with the comics, but the episode is one of the most hooking starts to any show I remember watching YEARS ago I finally got the hype of the walking dead and binged it, seeing how rick grimes was stuck in a tank with a radio of glenn calling him out and the music playing space junk as the camera pans out with a thousand zombies surrounding the tanks, it’s just cinema even by TV show standards, TWD could not be redone i. a film series

Not asking about shows you hated, just shows that even though you watched them you don't remember anything about them.

For me it's Silicon Valley. I know lots of people love it, but I can't name a single joke from that show. I watched all of it so I know I didn't hate it, but for whatever reason I barely remember it.

Just finishing my seventh or eighth viewing of the series and while it diverged from the anime it is its own masterpiece. Even the story changes and supposed miscastings have grown on me over time.

I think about what would have happened if people hadn’t bitchposted it into oblivion and how it would have only gotten better. I think about what they took from us.

I guess you’re gonna have to carry that weight…

I just watched Scavengers Reign and I can't get over how good it was.

Then I learned it was cancelled by HBO. I am on HBO almost daily and never saw it promoted and I am super into stuff like this.

Seriously shit like this makes me feel like there is no hope for humanity lol.

It's insane to me this was considered a failure and the lack of promotion.

Also the fact that HBO killed it shows they have lost what made them special.

This depresses me on a level I can't describe.

Oh well I just wanted to share how am I am feeling - is anyone else taking the shows cancellation really hard lol?

It just seems like such a bad decision it has me questioning if I even understand modern media anymore.

What do people want to watch?

Ice road truckers from hell ? It seems that way ..

Anyone else seen the series Wisting? I grabbed the free 7-day trial for AMC+ to check it out (please no spoilers). It's a highly regarded Norwegian crime/thriller series. Starring Carrie Ann Moss and Sven Nordin. The first episode was very gripping and compelling, I'm excited to watch more. It's a beautifully shot show, on location in snowy Norway.

The usage of the son and daughter feels like Showtime shows where the main guy has family unit to me, and I think the aesthetic and acting style is close enough. I think I find Landman more watchable because of them riffing in a bar or by a pool or something allowing long stretches of episode to go by without forcing the plot as much, like Showtime shows where they don't know what to do with the wife/ex wife, their usage of Larter and weaving her in around the other characters seems more natural so far.

Of course Showtime and Paramount+ are connected so I guess it makes sense, but I didn't get this vibe as much from Yellowstone.

I have many series that I love, but the only one I actually consider fully perfect is Ted Lasso and the Chernobyl miniseries. I love the Office, P&R, and many more, but even those have their flaws.

So, what are your PERFECT series?

I feel like a lot of the creative stuff MTV was doing back then gets overlooked these days. The Head, The State, Daria, and The Maxx were all really good shows for that era that would probably hold up as well as anything else today. The State had the benefit of being able to use current MTV music in their show and any DVD collections had to change it, it just isn't the same without it unfortunately. Dead at 21 was also interesting, but didn't last, unfortunately. The two big ones that everyone seems to remember were Beavis and Butthead and Liquid Television/Neon Flux, but there was so much more than those going on at the time. I'm probably missing tons, please help me remember them!

Common's portrayal of Sims on the show Silo is not that great. He's only able to be intimidating and not able to convey any other emotion and a believable way.

Contrast that with Mr milchik from severance and it's like watching night and day. Milchick vacillates effortlessly from warm-hearted coworker to threatening enforcer in a blink of an eye.

I’m watching ER for the first time, and while dated in many ways, clearly had staying power for a reason.

The show is very hard to watch in my opinion. The director, Alena Smith, tries to portray the life of Emily Dickinson in a modern way. It's not historically accurate. They use modernized slang and songs which makes the TV show's aesthetic feel uncomfortable and unorganized. There's also a bunch of metaphors, since Emily's a poet, but it just gets weird because you can't tell what is going on in Emily's head vs what is going on in reality. Which that would be great if the story was told entirely from her perspective, but it's not. They're trying to make us see what Emily's seeing but also what's actually happening.

I also just hate how every character is trying to get together. Sue and Emily, Sue and Austin, Sue and Sam, Sam and Emily, Emily and Ben, Austin and Jane, the list goes on.. It gets so confusing and it's to the point where everyone just seems like a bad person. They're all cheating on each other.

They portray Emily as a "tortured poet." Which I like how they try to lean in to that narrative, but it comes off as tone deaf. In the show, Emily feels like she's making such an impact. Where's the impact? In the show all she does is sit in her room writing. She says her life is miserable. She compares herself to a slave! She thinks she has the worst life ever. It's so absurd. She does nothing, no chores, work, doesn't talk to anyone, all she does is sit around writing and complaining. It's so cringeworthy how Smith tries to lean into the narrative. "oh yeah she's so miserable, she lives in a big house, has food for her at all times, has a (mostly) loving family, and goes to her sister-in-law/girlfriend's parties all the time, while this is all happening during the Civil War!

Emily thinks everyone is in love with her and her poetry and that she's truly making a difference. When they're making bandages for soldiers she uses her writing as an excuse. She says that she's making a difference, not by making bandages, but with her words. Where are your words going??? You've only been published once. Nobody is reading them. Her servant, Betty, calls her out for this and Emily acts like she's being so attacked. It's just so hard to watch. Emily thinks she's making a difference, when in reality she is not.

Overall, I think this show is just trash. It's tone deaf, annoying, not historically accurate, tries to be modern, and it seems like the show just wants to be a romantic drama. Again, everyone is with each other! Smith feels like since the story of Emily Dickinson is 'so boring' she has to change it so that it's interesting. Sex and parties is not going to make it more interesting!!

I know this is a rant. But basically sometimes when I'm watching a show and I don't like it. So I ask some people if it will get better. And the only thing they say is "Yeah bro just keep watching it, it has a big payoff". Then I continue watching it and it's never worth it.

So I think basically what I'm trying to say is: I don't like watching shows which completely depend on some kind of outcome when there is no action at all, it's very boring and most episodes are just "build up" to some kind of event which will happen. Why would I watch a show only to see the outcome when I'm not enjoying my experience at all? Just to find out "the mysterie"? Please enlighten me here

Here are some examples:

• Attack on Titan
• Silo
• Severence

Whyyy!?! Legitimately one of the saddest moments in television for me. At least my top five. It’s wild how much life changes since the last time you watch something like this. Like I’ve been sitting here crying for an hour. Y’all send tissues asap 😔

Edit: I somehow forgot to mention the title of the show. ER Dr. Greene

Buffy The Vampire Slayer is a show came out in 1997 and ended in 2003. There are multiple of references of Buffy in tv shows such as Friends or The Simpsons and the show seem to have been parodied a lot of times. Recently, there's been an event about Buffy on Halloween. There are courses and articles discussing how the show shaped television and stuff and writers have spoken their interests in the show such as : David Simon (The Wire), David Chase (The Sopranos), Russell T.Davis (Doctor Who) etc...

So... how big is Buffy in pop culture and how big was it when it aired back then ?

It feels like this a pretty hot take based on what I've been reading all over the Internet, but I don't think the general trend of TV shows becoming shorter and simultaneously taking longer to produce is a big deal. Films take 2+ years to make and end up being about 2 hours long. If TV seasons take 2 years now, that's still around 8 hours of content for the same production length. Not to mention the general increase in quality of television as a result of the extended production length. To put it simply, I think TV now is just more consistently high-quality than it used to be, with filler episodes being almost a thing of the past (for non-cable programs). If I was given the choice between getting a season of TV one year earlier and the quality of said season being twice as high, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat. I know that this is not always the case (looking at you, Stranger Things), but generally, I see longer production time as a good thing. What are your thoughts on this?

Just finished Silo season 2. Don't worry no spoilers here. Love the show but for goodness sake can they stop putting out shows where scenes are so dark (light, not storywise)? Unless you are in a completely dark room so many scenes are almost impossible to see clearly. Apple knows the show isn't going to be watched in a movie theater. It's being watched on phones, tablets, TVs. Rant over.

I really want to see a television series or movie franchise solely about the everyday life or career of the fictional character Mycroft Holmes.

He seems so much more interesting, unique and mysterious compared to his famous brother Sherlock Holmes imo.

I couldn't post this on the wire sub so i'm just gonna do it here. The show is truly a masterpiece and I'm glad I took the time to watch it. I have a lot of thoughts so I'll just quickly list some of them; I apologise in advance for the lack of coherence.

-The cast is perfect. I just love every single character, every single perfomance (except maybe brother mouzone). There is no main character in the traditional sense and each character gets their turn in the spotlight. I never had trouble keeping track of any character, that's how good the characterisation was. Omar and Avon are probably my favourites. The characters weave in and out of the story so naturally. Like in the last season we get to see where past characters are, and it's executed so well it doesn't feel forced.

-I like how each season focuses on different aspects of the city. Though I don't think the last season really delved into print media like previous seasons did their respective areas.

-I like how the show is grounded in realism. The realism doesnt act as a barrier to the storytelling but elevates it. This is a show where you can say "that's just what happens in real life" and have it not feel like a cop out. It makes the events of the show even more tragic.

-Sooo many emotional moments man... Wallace, D'Angelo, all those kids (fuck Herc). Each season found a new way to break my heart. But at least Bubbles got a happy ending all things considered.

-The show has a lot going on and you really have to pay attention. The way they balance all these storylines is done so well. There's so many moving parts and it could have easily been a mess in less capable hands. I think I've only seen early GoT do it as good as the wire (speaking of, I didn't realise at first that Carcetti was played by the same guy as Littlefinger).

-My favourite seasons were 1, 3 and 4, followed by 5 and lastly 2. I really wish the second season clicked with me but I didn't enjoy it as much as the others. It's still great though.

-I'll definitely rewatch the show at some point. Also has anyone seen The Deuce from the same creator. Is it good?